The engraving shows a group of young women ice skating, and while it is lovely, what the editors decided to espouse in their explanation of the photo was far more interesting. Ice skating, it seems, was a properly feminine activity, though they acknowledge that only men could reach the true peak of physical fitness and properness of dress which was required. Of course, women's success in the sport was because of their birthing hips and lower center of gravity as compared to men, and even with their "natural aptitude" they were only "tolerably skillful." This diminishment of women's accomplishments, hand in hand with the biological and physiological reasoning that Victorian's believed proved women's ability, is a fascinating piece of Victorian doublethink.