[The _Married Women’s Property Act_, 1882, in the event of no specific marriage contract to the contrary between the parties, retains to any woman married since Dec. 31st, 1882, the possession, control, and disposal of her own property and earnings, precisely as if she still remained a single woman (_feme sole_); it further secures to every wife (whether married before that date or afterwards), the right to her own earnings, and various other property rights, entirely independent of her husband’s control.] Maternity, 59, 64, 91, 106, 183, 208, 209; artistic or purposed, 214; painless future, 216. Maturity, 90, 93, 99, 178. Medical practitioners, evil methods of some, 101, 105, 106, _see_ Vivisection. Medical women, 113 to 116; duty of, 90, 106, 115, 116, 192, 204. Menstruation, 91; abnormal and acquired habit, 88, 91, 92, 104; pathological incident, not physiological, 92, 104, 116; developed into heredity, not inherent, 88, 104; not nubility, 93; fostering of, 104, 120; ignorance concerning, 89, 91, 117, 118; reproach of, 102; Scriptural definitions and opprobrium, 100, 102; futile explanations of, 104; “plethora” theory, 123; some evils of, 91, 92, 100, 101, 108; remediable, 108, 110, 116, 117, 120; immunity from, 92, 117; recent diminution of, 112, 123, 215. Menorrhagia, 101. Mental power; _see_ Capability, Ethics, Intellect, Jealousy. Military service, 77, 78, 169, _see_ also the following:— “One of those who fought to the last on the rebels’ side was the Ranee, or Princess, of Jhansi, whose territory had been one of our annexations. For months after the fall of Delhi she contrived to baffle Sir Hugh Rose and the English. She led squadrons in the field. She fought with her own hand. She was engaged against us in the battle for the possession of Gwalior. In the uniform of a cavalry officer she led charge after charge, and she was killed among those who resisted to the last. Her body was found upon the field, scarred with wounds enough in the front to have done credit to any hero. Sir Hugh Rose paid her the well-deserved tribute which a generous conqueror is always glad to be able to offer. He said, in his general order, that ‘The best man upon the side of the enemy was the woman found dead, the Ranee of Jhansi.’”—Justin McCarthy (“History of Our Own Times,” chap. xiii). And on the 12th December, 1892, the _Manchester Guardian_ reports:—