No woman could live and respond as freely as her nature prompts to the calls on her sympathy which come in the contact with all conditions of life involved in practicing a trade or a profession.

She must save herself.

To do it she incases herself in an unnatural armor.

For the normal, healthy woman this means the suppression of what is strongest in her nature, that power which differentiates her chiefly from man, her power of emotion, her "affectability" as the scientists call it.

She must overcome her own nature, put it in bonds, cripple it, if she is to do her work.