a bank, in lieu of the
payment at the proper time of a protested note.

That these follies are universally characterized, wherever they occur,
by the term "a woman's way of doing business," is sufficient proof that
they are characteristic of the majority of women; but that the cause of
the trouble lies, not in their nature, but in their education is proved
by the fact that wherever women have received a thorough business
training, these charming and bewildering feminine characteristics, which
render them only a source of confusion, are not found. Co-education is,
in this respect, of incalculable good to our American girls, for the
necessary laws of rational discipline, in a mixed school, must bear as
well on the girls as on the boys, and the result is, if possible, of
greater value to the girls than to the boys.

When we tell the little girl that she must not insist on keeping all her
playthings tightly hugged to her bosom, and persuade her to allow her
sister to look at or play with them, when the little arms are slowly
unfolded and the toy half hesitatingly handed over, we behold the
bending of a natural will, and one of the first victories of the
spiritual being. There is a great struggle going on in the tiny thought.
She is probably too young to be amenable to reasoning, and simply yields
to the force of the already acquired habit of obedience, or to the force
of her affection.

But if she do not yield, if she still hugs the toys in her natural
selfishness, shall we be _educating_ her if by physical pain we force
her to drop them? A single illustration and question of this kind will
show how large interests are involved in what is seemingly so simple a
matter. The question of how we shall deal with her to force her to do
what she ought to do, cannot be answered without first determining what
is the end in view. Have we simply in mind as an end that the other
child shall have some of the toys in that particular instance, or is it
the training, the education of the untrained will, of which we are
thinking? And yet the question must be decided at once. The pouting
child stands there in full possession of all the playthings, her arms
rosy with the strain, and the other child, quite as natural, quite as
untrained, is perhaps preparing to take her share by violence, and cries
aloud for justice. Is it not manifest that every mother--that every
woman who may have the care of children, should be so educated that she
may g