of and talked of, and information is at length generally gained in a regrettable manner.  From personal experience I know the evil results that this ignorance and constant endeavoring to find out everything has on the mind and bodies of school-girls.  If children had the natural and simple laws of creation carefully explained to them by their parents, much harm would be prevented, and the conversation would not always turn on sexual matters.  The Bible is often consulted for the discovery of hidden mysteries.

“‘Raves’ on teachers are far commoner than between two girls.  In this case the girl makes no secret of her attachment, constantly talking of it and describing her feelings to any who care to listen and writing long letters to her friends about the same.  In the case of two girls there is more likely to be a sexual element, great pleasure being taken in close contact with one another and frequent kissing and hugging.  When parted, long letters are written, often daily; they are full of affectionate expressions of love, etc., but there is also a frequent reference to the happiness and desire to do well that their love has inspired them with, while often very deeply religious feelings appear to be generated and many good resolutions are made.  Their various emotional feelings are described in every minute detail to each other.

“The duration of ‘raves’ varies.  I have known them to last three or four years, more often only a few months.  Occasionally what began as a ‘rave’ will turn, into a sensible firm friendship.  I imagine that there is seldom any actual inversion, and on growing up the ‘raves’ generally cease.  That the ‘ravers’ feel and act like a pair of lovers there is no doubt, and the majority put down these romantic friendships for their own sex as due, in a great extent, in the case of girls at schools, to being without the society of the opposite sex.  This may be true in some cases, but personally I think the question open to discussion.  These friendships are often found among girls who have left school and have every liberty, even among girls who have had numerous flirtations with the opposite sex, who cannot be accused of inversion, and who have all the feminine and domestic characteristics.

“In illustration of these points I may bring forward the following case:  A. and B. were two girls at the same college.  They belonged to different cliques, or sets; occupied different bedrooms; never met in their school-work, and were practically only known to one another by name.  One day they chanced to sit next to one another at some meal.  They both already had ‘raves,’ A. on an actor she had lately seen, B. on a married woman at her home.  The conversation happened to turn on ‘raves,’ and mutual attraction was suddenly felt.  From that moment a new interest came into their lives.  They lived for one another.  At the time A. was 14, B. a year older.  Both were somewhat precocious for their age, were practical, with plenty of common