2. No Female shall walk in any public place without continually
keeping up her Peace-cry, under penalty of death.
3. Any Female, duly certified to be suffering from St. Vitus's
Dance, fits, chronic cold accompanied by violent sneezing, or any
disease necessitating involuntary motions, shall be instantly
destroyed.
In some of the States there is an additional Law forbidding
Females, under penalty of death, from walking or standing in any
public place without moving their backs constantly from right to left
so as to indicate their presence to those behind them; other oblige a
Woman, when travelling, to be followed by one of her sons, or
servants, or by her husband; others confine Women altogether in their
houses except during the religious festivals. But it has bbeen found
by the wisest of our Circles or Statesmen that the multiplication of
restrictions on Females tends not only to the debilitation and
diminution of the race, but also to the increase of domestic murders
to such an extent that a State loses more than it gains by a too
prohibitive Code.
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