that a heavy, strong lower jaw is a distinctively masculine characteristic.  It is remarked that if a woman has a strong lower jaw she is like a man.  Conversation does not create this difference, nor remove it; for the development of a lower jaw in women constant mechanical exercise of the muscles is needed.  Now, a spirit of emancipation, of emulation, is abroad, as it ought to be, for the regeneration of the world.  It is sometimes called the coming to the front of woman in every act and occupation that used to belong almost exclusively to man.  It is not necessary to say a word to justify this.  But it is often accompanied by a misconception, namely, that it is necessary for woman to be like man, not only in habits, but in certain physical characteristics.  No woman desires a beard, because a beard means care and trouble, and would detract from feminine beauty, but to have a strong and, in appearance, a resolute under-jaw may be considered a desirable note of masculinity, and of masculine power and privilege, in the good time coming.  Hence the cultivation of it by the chewing of gum is a recognizable and reasonable instinct, and the practice can be defended as neither a whim nor a vain waste of energy and nervous force.  In a generation or two it may be laid aside as no longer necessary, or men may be compelled to resort to it to preserve their supremacy.

WOMEN IN CONGRESS

It does not seem to be decided yet whether women are to take the Senate or the House at Washington in the new development of what is called the dual government.  There are disadvantages in both.  The members of the Senate are so few that the women of the country would not be adequately represented in it; and the Chamber in which the House meets is too large for women to make speeches in with any pleasure to themselves or their hearers.  This last objection is, however, frivolous, for the speeches will be printed in the Record; and it is as easy to count women on a vote as men.  There is nothing in the objection, either, that the Chamber would need to be remodeled, and the smoking-rooms be turned into Day Nurseries.  The coming woman will not smoke, to be sure; neither will she, in coming forward to take charge of the government, plead the Baby Act.  Only those women, we are told, would be elected to Congress whose age and position enable them to devote themselves exclusively to politics.  The question, therefore, of taking to themselves the Senate or the House will be decided by the women themselves upon other grounds—­as to whether they wish to take the initiative in legislation and hold the power of the purse, or whether they prefer to act as a check, to exercise the high treaty-making power, and to have a voice in selecting the women who shall be sent to represent us abroad.  Other things being equal, women will naturally select the Upper House, and especially as that will give them an opportunity to reject any but the most competent women for the