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208 with a walking tour, in which they have marched twenty miles or so in the day, and which has resulted in a serious illness, directly traceable to the sudden strain upon the system.

In respect to long walks, girls try to emulate their brothers, with disastrous effects, forgetting that the difference in their constitution and education renders it impossible for them to perform with ease and advantage feats such as the boys or young men can perform. In short, failing to recognize that excess in any direction is bad, we fly from one evil to another.

It seems a well-established physiological fact that the same effect may arise equally from the absence of certain conditions and from their presence in too great a degree; for example, we may become anaemic from over-exercise or from want of exercise, and from this fact the golden lesson may be drawn—distribute your conditions equally, and you will get a well-balanced result. Now, this is exactly what is wanted, and we may take the "well-balanced result" to mean, in the case under consideration, that "consummation devoutly to be wished"—a healthy mind in a healthy body. If any one should say, "The mind is what makes the man; therefore let us consider the mind only," he is wrong, for it is impossible to have a healthy mind without a healthy body. Disease or weakness is sure to creep out somewhere, and at some time, though it may be well and long concealed. On the other hand, if any one should hold that "the body makes the mind: let us, therefore,