this pressure is
not regularly exerted, but on account of the swinging and swaying motion
of the skirts, is applied now in one direction, now in another. The
dress weighed was not of the heaviest material, but of fine
old-fashioned merino, or what is known this year as _Drap d'ete_.

[6] Lest this should seem to imply that women should not be employed as
bookkeepers, I would call attention to the fact that it presents
practically no obstacle whatever to their employment. For instance, one
of the largest wholesale and retail firms in St. Louis has for years
employed a woman bookkeeper, and she has never been expected to stand.
Low instead of high desks are in their counting-room, and low chairs are
also found there. The books, bills, etc., are convenient to her hand,
and no difficulty whatever is experienced. It may, perhaps, be a
pertinent question to ask, in what consists the advantage of a high
stool and a high desk over a low chair and a low desk, and whether it
takes any more time to rise from a chair, than to swing down from a
stool.

[7] In a most valuable and instructive article on the Comparative Health
of American and English Women, soon to appear in _Scribner's Monthly_,
Miss Mary E. Beedy, an American woman who has had unusually large
opportunities for knowing English girls, states that this is exactly the
feeling with which the English girl and woman regard their daily walk. I
call especial attention to this forthcoming article because it abounds
in accurately observed and skilfully generalized facts; and because it
is most suggestive on the whole subject of the health of women, and the
causes of its failure.

[8] "The change of character at this period is not by any means limited
to the appearance of the sexual feelings and their sympathetic ideas;
but when traced to its ultimate reach, will be found to extend to the
highest feelings of mankind--social, moral, and even religious. In its
lowest sphere, as a mere animal instinct, it is clear that the sexual
appetite forces the most selfish person out of the little circle of
self-feeling into a wider feeling of family sympathy, and a rudimentary
moral feeling."--Maudsley, _Body and Mind_, 2d Edition, p. 31.

[9] Maudsley: _Body and Mind_, Am. Ed., p. 304 _et seq._

[10] Dr. Karl Rosenkranz, Doctor of Theology, and Professor of
Philosophy at the University of Koenigsberg.

[11] I quote again from Rosenkranz, because I cannot improve upon his
words: "Mod