and Rational Gymnastics. ne 
work. If every schoolmistress were well instructed in 
these subjects, she being a centre acting on an average 
number of fifty to sixty girls, who in their turn will be 
wives and mothers, there would be some hope that in the 
next, or third generation, the fruits of scientific physical 
training would be visible, and that every English woman 
would be the officer of health in her own house, and that 
the rejections of our recruits would be under Io per cent. 
There is no intention on my part to exclude other persons | 
from being trained in the subjects I have named; my 
object is only to point out one of the many practical 
modes by which, according to my humble opinion, the 
physical state of the masses would be improved. 
There are ladies’ and other colleges, training schools, 
where instruction can be obtained in all branches of 
science, except in that of physical training ;° certificates 
are given to the future governesses and tutors, to the 
masters and mistresses, that they are capable of instructing 
and taking care of the pupils, although they have not the 
slightest idea how to preserve their own health or that of 
their pupils. The consequence is that many of these, in 
other respects, excellent persons believe it to be beneath 
their dignity to attend to the physical development and 
training of those placed under their care. 
The society for the employment of women has a large 
field of female occupation open to those who wish and 
se2k for employment which is healthy, useful, and will be 
remunerative, because educated teachers of physical train- 
ing are wanted; many families who do not wish to send 
their children to the dancing academy, would be glad to 
avail themselves of the services of such female teachers. 
If we wish to have strong soldiers, sailors, and working 
men, we must first think of their mothers, who have the 
difficult and responsible task of rearing them in infancy 
and childhood. This opinion is shared by many of my 
professional brethren. Other eminent men begin also to 
pay some attention to the subject, as for instance the Very 
Rev. the Dean of St. Paul’s, Dr. Millman, from whose 
address as chairman of the educational section at the 
International Social Science Congress, the following lines 
are extracted :— 
“ There was. however, an education anterior to that of 
school—the education at the mother’s breast; and as to 
that they might depend upon it that the best educated 
female would in general be the best mother, and do her 
