The pathos of the situation has indeed been--at all events in the past for to-day a more enlightened generation is growing up--that the very leaders of the woman's movement have often betrayed the cause of women.

They have adopted the ideals of men, they have urged women to become second-rate men, they have declared that the healthy natural woman disregards the presence of her menstrual functions.

This is the very reverse of the truth.

"They claim," remarks Engelmann, "that woman in her natural state is the physical equal of man, and constantly point to the primitive woman, the female of savage peoples, as an example of this supposed axiom.

Do they know how well this same savage is aware of the weakness of woman and her susceptibility at certain periods of her life?
And with what care he protects her from harm at these periods?
I believe not.