The studying of sciences has brought civilization to advance so far, that there is a very fine name to be given to every one of the numerous ailments which affect the poor daughters of God. Also a scientific remedy, just as high in rank as far as the language is concerned to relieve them from their sufferings right at the present time, and through these means it is possible in a scientific way to conceal the hidden crimes, and at the same time call forth mercy and sympathy.

What a mockery of life it must be in the sight of God. Oh, you beloved daughters of Zion, if you only could realize and shun the chains and snares placed in your path, of your soul's enemy trying to ruin you for the great mission to which you were designed, and in place of it prepare yourselves in spirit and in truth for the designs of your great Creator, let not only your spirit but your beautiful bodies be prepared for the awaiting events. Just imagine in what wisdom the body of woman was formed and left the Creator's masterhand, capable of every passing event by which it would come in contact in life-that means, as far as He had designed itbut how is it today? In many cases it is not any longer capable of performing its duties according to the designs of God.

Many a bright, noble spirit is clothed with a sickly, miserable body checking its progress and shortening its existence upon this earth, because that was brought into existence under the influence of transgressions of the laws of nature, and the penalty clings to it. Others have by their own unwise conduct in girlhood caused sickness and misery, and even deformity to be their lot through life-and in this way

will not be able to fulfill their designed mission. But all these things are overlooked, and in place of it explained in very fine words as being in the providences of God, while in reality it is caused through transgressions of the holy and pure laws of our God. Why is it that we shut our eyes for all these mistakes, trying to gain mercy and sympathy for our suffering, while properly we should blush?

It almost belongs to the now-a-days style to be sick and afflicted. The young lady who is sound and robust is not very much in the market; they must be pale and puny-looking--be very small around the waist or have small feet, to make attraction. These words bring to my mind the sayings of a great doctor. He said: "If it is your desire to secure a wife that will be free from eternal nervousness, headache, pains, ill-temper, and especially if you aim to have children that will not be sickly and short lived-I pray you avoid marrying a woman with a small

waist."

True it is also to my observation that that kind of deformity, which I will call it, because it is so far from the original pattern, that it can not be anything but deformity, causes all those bad results-how could it be otherwise ? It only takes common sense to know that any constrictions of the body necessarily must check the proper circulation in the veins and arteries, and what then, when we think of the conditions of the internal delicate organs, which of course as a natural consequence of the squeezing the poor body has been subject to, must be thrown out of their proper place, and develops many a time to an improper form. Oh, if that cursed garment which we call "corset," could

the affair, confess your weakness, and gather strength for future emergencies?" No doubt this would be the better plan; so, Mrs. Better Nature, I will try to take your advice.

Well, you know, that all the year, as a representative Freshman should do, I have felt a corkscrew shudder run down my spinal column every day as I passed by a certain establishment not far from the medical building, over whose entrance you can read the words in large, raised, stone letters "Anatomical Laboratory." For from my seat in the lecture room, I could daily see the express wagon back up to the side door, and divest itself of one or more great white boxes, the contents of which would be slid down the cellar stairs, there to be dumped into the vats of brine awaiting their reception. And did I not know, oh, my journal, that the contents of one or another of the white boxes mentioned would eventually be turned over to me, and that, with saw and scalpel, scissors and hammer, I would be expected to investigate and examine the remotest corners of the said contents?

Thus passed away the first semester; and as the time approached at which I had determined to begin the dreaded work of dissection my repugnance increased. But of what use to give way to such fancies! The work must be done, and the sooner begun, the sooner over. Thus it was that, as soon as our delightful Christmas holidays were over, thirty-two ladies, half of whom were Freshmen, the rest Juniors, prepared to begin the work under discussion, myself among the first named. Dressed in our oldest and shabbiest gowns, with oil-cloth aprons, half sleeves, and caps as accessories, and armed with our box of

instruments and cans of carbolated vasaline, the grotesque and interesting cavalcade bravely and en masse entered the fatal apartment. The sight of eight stark, staring bodies, of every age and color, stretched upon as many tables, was not reassuring, to say the least. A stifled scream or two might have been heard, and there were some pale faces, and clinging to each other for support. From beneath the highly perfumed handkerchiefs held assiduously to the noses of the more sensitive, the ends of those important organs could be seen highly elevated in the tainted air.

This state of affairs could not last long, however, for the work of cleansing and bandaging the bodies must be done, preparatory to beginning work in earnest on the morrow. So with hearty good will born of necessity, each went to work to do her part. Four girls, two Juniors and two Freshmen constitute a "club," to work upon one "subject." The fee for each is ten dollars making the price of a "subject" forty dollars. The bodies are supposed to be those of criminals, suicides, "found," and others unclaimed, while some few come from the county poor-houses. They are all provided by the "anatomical law." Students are not allowed to carry away any part or portion under penalty of heavy fine. The remains are burned or buried after use.

Three days' actual work upon the cadaver resulted in making me thoroughly sick in mind and body, hence occurs the fact noted at the beginning as well as the additional one that I am trying to fill my journal with the ideas that have haunted me for the past week; hoping thus to rid myself of them in a measure. The finding of

of, is her future marriage. With those of lively imagination and warm heart, every beau is looked upon as the possible husband. Many of the stories which have appeared in the pages of the JOURNAL have been illustrative of the principle of love. In all of them, too, was taught this one lesson: no girl should allow her heart to go out to a man, without the testimony of the spirit to her words that the chosen one is he whom God has appointed to be her husband in time and eternity. We use our agency oftentimes so carelessly and even recklessly that years are required to bring us to our senses, to teach us that God and His will should be the object of our lives. The mind has so much to do with the heart, whether we know it or not. If a girl reads trashy novels all her young life, her mind becomes possessed with the idea that love and romance are inseparable things. So they are, in one sense of the word. But the novels of the world present the prevailing idea of the world; viz: that human love and its vagaries are the whole sum of existence. Certainly love is the highest attribute, even of divinity; yet love and license are not interchangeable terms. The tempting spirit that appears in the form of "young love," can be rebuked and held at bay by a faithful, prayerful soul, just as the spirit which tempts us to lie, to steal, or to sin in any way. It may be a difficult task, it often will be, for imagination helps the heart to be rebellious, but dear girl friends, if you find your feelings are being drawn out, to use an old-fashioned expressive term, to an unworthy object, to a man who drinks or who has a bad character or is outside our Church, just pray daily, hourly if need be, to be delivered from

the assailing spirit. Try this, and don't sink into the wretched mistake that the fact of your "falling in love" with an unworthy man, justifies you in doing wrong or in being disobedient to the counsels and wishes of your parents and friends.

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HERE is another point connected with this strongest passion of the human heart, which I wish women, married and unmarried, understood.

God, it is, who holds the destiny and heart of every man and woman in His hand. Now, if any one of you feel a desire for the love of a good man, one who does not seem to care for you, or if married, and your husband's heart seems alienated from you, there is one sure, safe way in which to obtain that blessing. Joseph Smith and Brigham Young are both credited with the saying that "a woman having but one choice, while a man may have many, should rightly have the object of that choice." The safe and sure way to get that choice is not to ask the man's consent to a marriage-I am too old-fashioned to admire the modern style of man hunting-but to ask God to turn the heart of His servant to the girl or woman who so desires it. Be sure that if it is the right one, you will have that prayer answered in time and you will be all the happier for your waiting and constancy.