The Revolution of Man.

It is true that Woman has pegged out her claim in nearly every field of endeavour, but there still remains the football field, where strong silent balls of muscle roll each other in the ooze, step on each other's windpipes, and generally react in accordance with Nature's original specifications; for since the institution of the Riot Act man has been rigorously repressed and suppressed; he is forbidden by law to give his boy-friend a thick ear in a public place; he cannot even recline on a business rival's neck on the main highway, or split a competitor's coat up the back in the marketplace. Is it any wonder that this restraint often results in such discords in his choral tone as the Rugby rabies, severe scrumatism, forward-tactics, calf-worrying, full-back aches, falling fits, dust-biting, muddy complexion, and that severe form of shortness of breath, known in football parlance, as loss-of-pants?