Vibrating between a distressing excitement and a gloomy depression, her temper gives way; and even the words of the Divine Master lose their influence over her. She becomes fretful, and yet full of remorse for yielding to her peevishness; she seeks for sympathy, without being able to give reasons for needing it; she annoys those around her by groundless fears, and is angered when they show their annoyance. In fine, she is utterly wretched, without any obvious cause of wretchedness. This is a dark picture, but it is a true one--inexorably true. Let us hasten to add that such a mental condition is, however, neither a necessary nor a frequent concomitant of the change. We depict it, so that friends and relatives may better appreciate the sufferings of a class too little understood, and so that women themselves, by knowing the cause of such complaints, and the sad results which flow from them, may make the more earnest efforts to avoid them. Other symptoms are, a sense of choking, a feeling of faintness, shooting pains in the back and loins, creepings and chilliness, a feeling as if a hand were applied to the back or the cheek, a fidgety restlessness, inability to fix the mind on reading or in following a discourse, and a loss of control over the emotions, so that she is easily affected to tears or to laughter. All these merely indicate that nature is employing all her powers to bring about that mysterious transformation in the economy by which she deprives the one sex for ever of partaking in the creative act after a certain age, while she only diminishes the power of the other. EFFECTS ON THE CHARACTER.