_Athletics_, i.e., overdone physical training, causes the girl's system to approximate to the masculine; this is so whether due to sport or necessity.

The woman who indulges in it approximates to the male in her attributes; this is marked in diminished sexual intensity, and in increased difficulty of childbirth, with, in time, lessened fecundity.

Healthy habits improve, but masculine muscular development diminishes, womanly qualities, although it is true that the peasant and the laboring woman have easy labor.

I have never advocated muscular development for girls, only physical training, but have perhaps said too much for it and praised it too unguardedly.

In schools and colleges, so far, however, it is insufficient rather than too much; only the wealthy have too much golf and athletic sports.