t, through these studies, to draw out their
intelligence, train them to observe facts correctly, and draw accurate
inferences from their observation, which constitutes good judgment, and
teach them to think, and to apply thought easily to new forms of
knowledge. Morally, the discipline of a good school tends directly to
form the habits I mentioned above. The pupils are trained to steady
industry and perseverance, to scorn dishonest work, and to control
temper. The girls who leave school so trained, though they may know
nothing of cooking or housekeeping, will become infinitely better cooks
and housekeepers, as soon as they have a motive for doing so, than the
uneducated woman, who has learned only the technical rules of her
craft."

Every girl ought certainly also to know how to drive a nail, to put in
and take out a screw, and to do various other things of the same kind,
as well as to sweep and to dust; but of all these "readinesses," if I
may be permitted the word, the same thing may be said. I have spoken of
them under Physical education, as their most appropriate place.

Passing now to the more definite consideration of Physical education, it
will be convenient to consider this division of the subject under three
heads, as I have to speak of

1. Repair,
2. Exercise,
3. Sexual Education.

REPAIR.

All parts of the body are, of course, as long as life exists, in a state
of continual wear, old cells being constantly broken down, and new ones
substituted in their places. When the Apostle exclaimed, "I die daily,"
he uttered an important physiological as well as a spiritual truth;
though, if he had said, "I die every instant," he would have expressed
it more exactly. It is only by continual death that we live at all. But
continual death calls for continual creation, the continual destruction
for continual repair, and this is rendered possible by means of food and
sleep. Clothing, too, properly belongs under this division; for, were it
not for this, the heat of the body would often be carried off faster
than it could be generated, and the destructive process would outstrip
the reconstructive. Moreover, the clothing too frequently interferes
with the normal functions of the most important repairing organs, and
its consideration, therefore, must constitute the third branch of our
inquiry. The division _Repair_, then, will embrace a consideration of

a. Food,
b. Sleep,
c. Clothing.

_Food._--The kind and quanti