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 improve as does the mental. Give not only the delicate girls, but all girls, exercises which shall insure strong and shapely limbs; and chests deep, full, and high; beginning these exercises mildly, and progressing very gradually; correcting this high shoulder, or that stoop, or this hollow chest, or that overstep; and carrying on this development as long as the school-days last. Let this be done under a teacher as skilled at her work as the mathematical instructor is at his; and what incalculable benefit would accrue, not to this generation alone, but to their descendants as well!

But will not this physical training dull the mind for its work? Did it dull the mind of Miss Fawcett, daughter of the late Professor Fawcett, at one time England's blind Postmaster-General; who won a Senior Wranglership by four hundred points over the best man in Cambridge University? ''Yet who studied only six hours a day! but spent from two to three hours every day at tennis, and shinny played at a very lively pace at that! Or who could row in a four-oared crew'' with her gifted and stalwart father, and other members of the family, in a style that won praise from all who saw them!

And what if this daily exercise, besides improving the body, should also bring actually better mental work? Unbending the bow for a little while; taking the tension from the brain for a few minutes, and depleting it by expanding the chest to its fullest capacity, and increasing the circulation in the limbs;—these, instead of impairing that brain, will repair it; and will markedly improve its tone and vigor.

There ought to be in every girls' school in our land, for pupils of every age, a system of physical culture which should first weed out special weaknesses and defects; and then create and maintain the symmetry of the pupils,