The second urgent preventive measure which should engage our military authorities is the removal of that dangerous idleness which is a constant temptation to the soldiers through so many weary hours of every day. This subject can only be referred to here, for, although of extreme importance, its practicability and adaptations must first of all be thoroughly discussed by military men intimately acquainted with the exigencies of army life. But it is a paramount duty to provide constant useful employment and healthy recreation for our soldiers in every army of occupation, during the cooler hours of the evening in tropical climates, when such employment becomes possible as well as imperative. The remarkable organization of an army is the most powerful training-school, in good or evil, for the poorer classes of men, that we possess. The conversion of an army of occupation into a school of the industrial arts needed in its maintenance--with rewards for industry, sobriety, and self-control--must surely be in the power of any Government that resolutely determines to accomplish such a noble transformation. The saving in health and even in money would be a great economic gain. The Government that carried out such a grand result would be a mighty benefactor to our race. It is impossible now to go fully into the various branches of this vital subject, but I would say to my younger medical sisters, who will carry on here the grand work of medicine when I have entered upon another sphere of life, that I most earnestly counsel them to recognise that the redemption of our sexual relations from evil to good, rests more imperatively upon them than upon any other single class of society. It will be a cowardly dereliction of duty to refuse any longer to study this grave subject of venereal disease now again forced upon our attention, because the subject--which concerns both sexes equally--is a repulsive one. To us medical women, the special guardians of home life, has been opened the path of scientific medical knowledge, which, as science, embraces both mind and body; and it is by our advance, independently but reverently, in that path, guided by our God-given womanly conscience, that we shall be able to detect clearly the errors in relation to sex, which lie at the root of our present degeneracy. It is not conspicuous public action that is required from us, but the thorough realization of true physiology.