ly
troubled by the periodical function.

There is an established kind of tradition giving the rule for
the regimen during the catamenial period: this regimen goes
from mother to daughter, and the advice of physicians is
seldom asked for with regard to it. As a rule, the greatest
care is taken to avoid any cold or exposure at this time. If
the girls are still school-girls, they go to school, study and
write as at other times, _provided the function is normally
performed_.

School-girls never ride in Germany, nor are they invited to
parties or to dancing-parties. All this comes after the
school. And even then care is taken to _stay at home when the
periodical function is present_.

Concerning the health of the German girls, as compared with
American girls, the German physicians have not sufficient
information to warrant any statement. But the health of the
German girls is commonly good except in the higher classes in
the great capitals, where the same obnoxious agencies are to
be found in Germany as in the whole world. But here also there
is a very strong exception, or, better, a difference between
America and Germany, as German girls are never accustomed to
the free manners and modes of life of American girls. As a
rule, in Germany, the mother directs the manner of living of
the daughter entirely.

I shall have more and better information some time later.

Yours,
H. HAGEN.

A German lady, who was educated in the schools of Dantzic, Prussia,
afforded information, which, as far as it went, confirmed the above.
Three customs, or habits, which exert a great influence upon the
health and development of girls, appear from Dr. Hagen's letter to
make a part of the German female educational regimen. The first is,
that girls leave school at about the age of fifteen or sixteen, that
is, as soon as the epoch of rapid sexual development arrives. It
appears, moreover, that during this epoch, or the greater part of it,
a German girl's education is carried on at home, by means of lectures
or private arrangements. These, of course, are not as inflexible as
the rigid rules of a technical school, and admit of easy adjustment to
the periodical demands of the female constitution. The second is the
traditional motherly supervision and careful regimen of the catamenial
week. Evidently the notion that a boy's education