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100 puts on that robust energy and daring which marks him out as the protector of the other sex; and his manly voice, the deepened tints upon his cheek, and the whole muscular system, show an excess of energy sufficient to qualify him for his position. At this period also a vast change takes place in the woman. The chest is expanded, the eye acquires a brilliancy peculiarly its own, and the frame takes that beautiful undulating form and proportion which gives it its peculiar charm. The province of woman is now to be the preserver of the species, and the several stages of marriage, pregnancy, and maternity are the destiny which opens before her. It is through these that we have now to acompany her. In discussing this period of her history, we must entirely set aside fashion and prejudice, and follow without reservation the laws which the Creator, in His beneficence, has stamped upon the frame. The putative mother should feel all the responsibility which attaches itself to the future life and happiness of her child, and ever study the conditions necessary to its healthy and proper development. But unfortunately it too often happens that the mother is as little acquainted with the first prin­ciples of physiology as the child, and the