This general, as also the higher officers, is chosen by the body of women who have passed the time of service, in correspondence with the manner in which the chiefs of the masculine army and the President of the nation are elected.

The general of the women's army sits in the cabinet of the President and has a veto on measures respecting women's work, pending appeals to Congress.

I should have said, in speaking of the judiciary, that we have women on the bench, appointed by the general of the women, as well as men.

Causes in which both parties are women are determined by women judges, and where a man and a woman are parties to a case, a judge of either sex must consent to the verdict." "Womanhood seems to be organized as a sort of imperium in imperio in your system," I said.
"To some extent," Dr.Leete replied; "but the inner imperium is one from which you will admit there is not likely to be much danger to the nation.

The lack of some such recognition of the distinct individuality of the sexes was one of the innumerable defects of your society.