Commendations from Eminent Men and Women
What a Young Husband Ought to Know
What Eminent People in America Say.
CHARLES M. SHELDON, D.D.Author of "In His Steps," "Crucifixion of Philip Strong,""My Brother's Keeper," etc., etc.,Topeka, Kans.
"I take pleasure in adding my word of commendation for the spirit and purpose of your book, 'What a Young Husband Ought to Know,' which I have received and read. I believe the book will do great good, and I hope its message may be used for the bettering of the homes of the world."
What Eminent People in England Say.
REV. F. B. MEYER, B.A.Minister of Christ Church, Westminster, London, Author of"Israel, A Prince with God," "Elijah: Tried byFire," "The Bells of Is," etc., etc.
"The questions which are dealt with in the 'Self and Sex Series' of books are always being asked, and if the answer is not forthcoming from pure and wise lips it will be obtained through vicious and empirical channels. I therefore greatly commend this series of manuals, which are written lucidly and purely, and will afford the necessary information without pandering to unholy and sensual passion. There has been, in my judgment, too much reticence on the whole of this subject, and nameless sins have originated in ignorance or in the directions given to young life by vicious men. I should like to see a wide and judicious distribution of this literature among Christian circles."
What Eminent People in America Say.
HON. S. M. JONES.Mayor of Toledo, Ohio.
"I have taken the time out of a very hurried week to look over your book, 'What a Young Husband Ought to Know,' and it seems to me that it is a work that has been prepared with great care and discrimination. I have often thought that this work is one that some heart inspired by love of humanity should undertake. I am glad to say that my study of it indicates that you have been led by a pure love for your kind to write one of the most helpful and valuable books that it has been my privilege to see in many days."
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EDWARD BOK.Editor of the "Ladies' Home Journal.
"You have accomplished in doing, in your little book, 'What a Young Husband Ought to Know,' exactly what you have set out to do, it seems to me, and I know of no book of its kind which exhales to the same degree, and so unerringly, the candid, pure and exalted purpose of the writer. It is an honest little book, and every young married man who reads it cannot fail to be helped by it, and helped materially. There are books, three times the size, which do not begin to have one-third of the common sense in them that your little book has."
What Eminent People in America Say.
MRS. HELEN CAMPBELL.Dean of the Department of Household Economics, KansasState Agricultural College; author of "Prisoners ofPoverty," "Some Passages in the Life of Dr.Martha Scarborough," etc., etc.
"It meets the strongest need for the mass of young men, who have failed most of them, to receive the training outlined in the books for boys—who are ignorant utterly as to just their own degree of responsibility, and who will find in your careful statement of the problem as a whole, not only invaluable direction, but a guarantee of healthier and happier life for both husband and wife."
What Eminent People in America Say.
MRS. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL.President of the Girls' Classical School; President of theInternational Council of Women.
"I feel sure that the book which you have had the privilege to write must do every young man good who reads it. To inculcate in society this sound view that knowledge upon these subjects is not only compatible with delicacy, but requisite to it, is one of the most important contemporary duties of teachers, whether in the pulpit, on the rostrum, in the sanctum, or in the class-room."
What Eminent People in America Say.
HERRICK JOHNSON, D.D., LL.D.Professor in McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago.Author of "Plain Talks about the Theatre," "Revivals,Their Place and Power," "Christianity'sChallenge," etc.
"I have just laid down your book, 'What a Young Husband Ought to Know,' after a very interested perusal of it. The rare discrimination and delicate sense displayed in the handling of your theme are especially commendable. To say a bold courageous thing on a confessedly delicate subject, without any offence to true modesty, is a fine achievement. All manhood and womanhood ought to thank you."
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BISHOP JOHN H. VINCENT, D.D., LL.D.Chancellor of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle;Author of "Sunday School Institutes and NormalClasses," "The Church School and ItsOfficers," etc.
"Ina straightforward, clean, kind, clear and convincing way you discuss the 'Young Husband' question. A copy ought to go with every marriagecertificate.The book is timely and full of wisdom."
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FRANCIS E. CLARKE,D.D.Founder of the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor,and President of the United Society.
"I regard Dr. Stall's latest book as equal to the others in its delicate but plain-spoken chapters concerning the facts the men to whom it is addressed ought to know. I hope it will have a wide circulation."
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JOSIAH STRONG, D.D.President of the League for Social Service; Author of "OurCountry," "New Era," "The Twentieth CenturyCity," etc.
"'What a Young Husband Ought to Know,' like the earlier books of the series, is judicious in its selection of topics and wise in its treatment of them. Your admirable work will enable many young husbands to learn what they ought to know without paying the high tuition fee exacted in the school of experience."
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MRS. FRANCES SHELDON BOLTON.Editor of "Mothers' Journal;" Author of "Baby" andOther Books.
"What a vast amount of suffering and wretchedness would be prevented, and how many happy homes could be saved, if all young men before they are married would read and profit by Dr. Sylvanus Stall's book, entitled 'What a Young Husband Ought to Know.'"
What Eminent People in America Say.
EMILY S. BOUTON.Author of "Health and Beauty," "Social Etiquette," "Houseand Domestic Decorations," "Life's Gatewaysand How to Win Real Success," etc.
"It is much to find a writer who may touch upon these subjects with a strong, firm, true, and yet delicate pen; and you are doing good service to humanity by such work. I am indeed glad to know that your former works have been so highly commended, and where such commendation will do great good."
REV. NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS.Pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., and author of"The Investment of Influence," "A Man'sValue to Society," etc.
"I have read your book with care and interest. It is a wholesome and helpful contribution to a most difficult subject, and its reading will help to make the American home happier and more safely guarded."
HOWARD A. KELLY, M.D.Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics Johns HopkinsUniversity, Baltimore, Md.
"The book 'What a Young Husband Ought to Know' can be heartily recommended. It handles in a plain but delicate and reverential manner subjects that should be thoroughly understood by every adult man, but which often are first learned by him through bitter experience. If the knowledge contained in it were more generally diffused, many sad duties left for the physician would become unnecessary."
LEMUEL BOLTON BANGS, M.D.Professor Genito-Urinary Surgery in the N. Y. Post-GraduateMedical School; Consulting Surgeon to St. Luke'sHospital and to the Methodist EpiscopalHospital, Brooklyn; Surgeon to theCity Hospital, N. Y.
"I have recommended it to a good manyoldas well as 'young' husbands, and am satisfied of its usefulness to them. I shall continue to commend it, and also the other books of the series."
EUGENE H. PORTER, M.A., M.D.Professor Materia Medica, New York Homœopathic MedicalCollege; Professor Diseases of Stomach and Liver,Metropolitan Post-Graduate School; Author ofnumerous standard medical works; Editorof North American Journal ofHomœopathy.
"Your new book, 'What a Young Husband Ought to Know,' should be in the hands of every young man who contemplates marriage. The work, while thoroughly refined in style and treatment, is vigorous and direct in its teaching and application of essential truths. Purity, happiness and health will be with those who heed its teachings. It is a sound and practical volume, and deserves a wide circulation."
H J. BOLDT, M.D.Professor of Gynæcology, New York Post-Graduate MedicalSchool and Hospital; Gynæcologist to St. Mark'sHospital; Gynæcologist to the GermanPoliklinik.
"There is nothing in the book which every man entering upon such new duty in life should not know. I personally feel that its possession, andfollowingit in practice by young husbands, would be conducive to a purer life and more happiness. I shall most cheerfully commend it whenever an opportunity presents itself."
OLIVER EDWARD JANNEY, M.D.The Southern Homœopathic Medical College, Baltimore, Md.
"If it could be placed in the hands of prospective husbands a vast amount of unhappiness and disease would be avoided, and the well-being of the race advanced. It is not wickedness, but ignorance that wrecks lives on the threshold of marriage, and this bookteaches."
PAUL F. MUNDE, M.D., LL.D.Professor of Gynæcology at the New York Polyclinic andat Dartmouth College; Gynæcologist to MountSinai Hospital.
"I have looked through your book, entitled, 'What a Young Husband Ought to Know,' and am impelled by its contents and the careful and delicate manner in which you endeavor to communicate to a man about to enter the married state, 'whateveryyoung husband ought to know,' if he would ensure his marital happiness and save his wife as much as possible from the many afflictions unfortunately not always separable from that state. I am impelled, I repeat, to depart from my custom of refusing to endorse semi-medical publications intended for the lay-reader. Your previous work on 'What a Young Man Ought to Know,' has once before induced me to commit the same departure, and I feel that I am but adding my humble share toward the good work which I think you are conscientiously endeavoring to perform, in repeating substantially the commendation of the former book as applied to the present."
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"What a Young Boy Ought to Know."
BY SYLVANUS STALL, D. D.
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PART I.
God's purpose in endowing plants, animals and man with reproductive power—The question of the origin of life a natural and proper one—Difference between creating and making—How God now creates or reproduces the flowers, insects, fishes and animals—The mamma and papa plants and the baby plants—The mamma and papa nature in the stalk of corn—The two natures united in the same flower—Separated in other plants—The office of the wind and insects in fertilizing the flowers—The mamma and papa natures united in the same oyster—The life of the baby oyster—The two natures separated in the fishes—The eggs and the baby fishes—How seeds are made to grow and how eggs are hatched—The beautiful lives of parent birds—The bird's nest, the eggs and the baby birds—Why the eggs of animals may not be exposed in a nest—The nest which God has prepared for them—The hatching of the egg or the birth of the animal—The creation of Adam and Eve—God created man with power similar to his creative power—The purity of parentage.
PART II
The manner in which the reproductive organs are injured in boys by abuse—Comparative anatomy, or points of resemblance between bodies of birds, animals and man—Man the only animal with a perfect hand—With the hand he constructs, builds and blesses—With the hand he smites, slays and injures others, and degrades himself.
PART III
The consequences in boys of the abuse of the reproductive organs—Need of proper information—The moral effects first to manifest themselves—How secret sin affects the character of boys—Effects upon the body and the nerves—Effects upon the brain and mind—The physical effects that follow.
PARTS IV and V
How boys may preserve their bodies in purity and strength—Our duty to aid others to avoid pernicious habits, and to retain or regain their purity and strength.
PARTS VI and VII
How purity and strength may be measurably regained—The age of adolescence or puberty and its attendant changes—Its significance and its dangers.
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For Boys under Sixteen Years of Age
WHAT EMINENT PEOPLE SAY
Theodore L. Cuyler, D.D.
"'What a Young Boy Ought to Know' ought to be in every home where there is a boy."
Lady Henry Somerset
"Calculated to do an immense amount of good. I sincerely hope it may find its way to many homes."
Joseph Cook, D.D., LL.D.
"It is everywhere suggestive, inspiring and strategic in a degree, as I think, not hitherto matched in literature of its class."
Charles L. Thompson, D.D.
"Why was not this book written centuries ago?"
Anthony Comstock
"It lifts the mind and thoughts upon a high and lofty plane upon delicate subjects."
Edward W. Bok
"It has appealed to me in a way which no other book of its kind has."
Bishop John H. Vincent, D.D., LL.D.
"You have handled with great delicacy and wisdom an exceedingly difficult subject."
John Willis Baer
"I feel confident that it can do great good, and I mean that my boys shall have the contents placed before them."
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, LL.D.
"Full of physiological truths, which all children ought to know, at a proper age; will be read by boys without awakening a prurient thought."
Josiah Strong, D.D.
"A foolish and culpable silence on the part of most parents leaves their children to learn, too often from vicious companions, sacred truth in an unhallowed way."
"What a Young Man Ought to Know."
BY SYLVANUS STALL, D. D.
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STRENGTH
The value of physical strength—the weak man handicapped—Threefoldnature of man—Relation of the physical, intellectual and moral—Impair one, you injure all—The physical foundation—Man's strong sexual nature—Sexuality strongly marked in all great men—Importance of manly mastery of sexual nature—Personal purity—Only one moral standard for men and women.
WEAKNESS
Inherited weakness—How overcome—Acquired weakness—How produced—The effects of secret vice—What should be done—Losses in sleep—When to consult a physician—Danger from quacks and charlatans—What are normal and abnormal losses—Medical authorities quoted—Subject illustrated—Important directions.
SOCIAL VICE
Alarming ignorance concerning the diseases which accompany vice—Why physicians do not acquaint their patients with the nature of these diseases—Theprevalence—All forms of venereal diseases leave terrible results—Character and consequences of gonorrhœa—Later complications—Chordee, stricture, blindness, etc.—How healthy brides become early and permanent invalids—Chancroid and chancre—The primary, secondary and tertiary forms of syphilis—The beginning, progress and end—Can it ever be cured—May the man ever marry—Effects upon wife and children.
THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS
Their purpose and prostitution—Marriage a great blessing—Difference between creation and procreation—All life from the seed or the egg—The reproduction of plants, fishes, birds and animals contrasted—An interesting study.
MAN'S RELATION TO WOMAN
Importance of a right relation to women—The nature of marriage—The friends and foes of marriage—Who should not marry—The selection of a wife—Some general rules—Importance of great caution—Causes of unhappiness in married life—Early and late marriages.
HINDRANCES AND HELPS
The choice of companions, books, pictures, amusements, recreations—Liquors and tobacco—Self-mastery—Right aim in life—Industry, early rising—The influence of an ennobling affection—Education—The Sabbath, the Church and the Bible.
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What Eminent People Say:
Francis E. Clark, D. D.
"Of exceeding value to every youth just entering upon manhood. It is written reverently but very plainly, and I believe will save a multitude of young men from evils unspeakable."
John Clifford, D. D.
"One of the best books for dawning manhood that has fallen into my hands. It goes to the roots of human living. It is thoroughly manly. Dr. Stall has laid the rising generation under an immense obligation."
J. Wilbur Chapman, D. D.
"I bear willing testimony that I believe this book ought to be in the hands of every young man in this country."
Paul F. Munde, M. D., LL. D.
Professor of Gynæcology in the New York Polyclinicand at Dartmouth College, says:
"I most heartily commend not only the principle but the execution of what it aims to teach."
Eugene H. Porter, M. D., LL. D.
President of the Homeopathic Medical Society of theState of New York; Professor Materia Medica,New York Homeopathic MedicalCollege, etc., says:
"We should especially commend the volume for its reliability in statement, and, as a medical man, I highly indorse the medical teachings of the book. It is trustworthy and sound. It is a work which should be in the hands of every young man."
"What a Man of Forty-five Ought to Know."
BY SYLVANUS STALL, D.D.
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PART I
WHAT HE OUGHT TO KNOW CONCERNING HIMSELF
Prevalent ignorance concerning physical changes in men of middle-life—Sad results of such ignorance—Reasons for change—Evidences of these changes—Husband and wife constitute a reproductive unit—The two natures responsive in activity and repose—Somewhat similar changes in both—The age at which climacteric or "change of life" occurs in men—Climacteric and adolescence contrasted—The testimony of medical men to the fact—Only young men need the testimonials of authorities—Old men know it—Compensations which follow the sexual hush—Physical and mental effects—Changes more gradual than in women—Many men intellectually at their best after sexual hush—To them time and experience open their richest treasures—Moderation in all things enjoined—Sexual moderation emphasized—Virility, how destroyed, how preserved—Effects of exercise, food, stimulants, sleep, employment, etc.—Functional disorders—Benefit of intelligence—Enlargement of the prostate gland—Manifestations, cause and precautionary measures—The marriage of men of middle life—Physical unfitness and effects—Rights of the unborn—The years beyond—The man at forty determines what the man at eighty shall be—Value of purpose to keep strong and bright—Examples.
PART II
WHAT HE OUGHT TO KNOW CONCERNING HIS WIFE
Reproduction the primal purpose of marriage—Attractive and repellent periods in life of woman—Climacteric or change of life the most repellent period—Disappearance of menstruation only an outward manifestation—The phenomenon explained—Reasons for change made plain—Not a period of stress for all women—How to meet the menopause—Occupation, diet, fresh air, exercise, sleep, companionship, sexual repose, etc., etc.—Mortality and insanity greater among men—The aches and ills which attend the menopause—Aversion to husband, children and friends—Physical changes which attend and follow change of life in women—Modified sexual nature—Growths—Mental changes and conditions—Need of intelligence upon the part of husband and others.
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PRAISED BY THE PRESS
"We do not hesitate to recommend."—Experience.
"A reliable and instructive guide in sexual matters and yet pure and chaste in style."—Journal of Dermatology.
"Information of vital importance."—Pittsburgh ChristianAdvocate.
"Written in an honest, frank, and fearless way."—Christian Standard.
"It is a clean book which one should sit down to alone."—The Evangelist.
"These books deserve to be circulated by the million."—Leslie's Weekly.
"To many men the guidance of this book will be a timely benediction."—Chicago Appeal.
"The utterance of one who has an accurate knowledge of men."—Brooklyn Citizen.
"It is a helpful book and in all important particulars sound in its medical statements."—Baltimore Sun.
"This book is recommendable not only to the intelligent layman to read himself and hand to others, but also to the physician, who ought to welcome it as a means to refresh an important part of his physiologic knowledge."—Alkaloidal Clinic.
"A man who is a fool at forty-five (and there are many of them) is pretty hard to manage. There are certain things which he ought to know without being told, but it is difficult to teach him these things. He needs reasoning with and plain talking to. This book does it in a healthy, elevating manner. These cases are often very troublesome to the physician. It would be well to have this book handy to lend to such patients. This course will help the physician to manage his patient and help the patient. This book will do much good. There has been a need for just such a work."—Medical World.
"What a Young Girl Ought to Know."
BY MRS. MARY WOOD-ALLEN, M. D.
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PART I
The origin of life—One plan in all forms of life—How plants grow from the seed—They feed on the soil, grow and mature—How the plant reproduces itself—The flower, the pollen, the pod, the seed—The office of bees and insects in fertilization.
PART II
Fishes and their young—The parent fishes and the baby fishes—The seeds of plants and eggs of fishes, birds and animals—How fishes never know their baby offspring—Warm blooded animals—Lessons from birds—Their nests, eggs and little ones.
PART III
Animals and their young—The place which God has prepared for their young—Beginning their independent life—Human babies the most helpless and dependent of all creatures—The relations of parent and child—The child a part of each parent—Heredity and its lessons.
PART IV
The value of good health—The care of the body—The body a temple to be kept holy—Girls should receive their instruction from their mothers—The body the garment which the soul wears—Effects of thoughts upon life and character—Value of good companions, good books and good influences—What it is to become a woman.
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WHAT EMINENT PEOPLE SAY
Francis E. Willard, LL.D.
"I do earnestly hope that this book, founded on a strictly scientific but not forgetting a strong ethical basis, may be well known and widely read by the dear girls in their teens and the young women in their homes."
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Grannis
"These facts ought to be judiciously brought to the intelligence of every child whenever it asks questions concerning its own origin."
Mrs. Harriet Lincoln Coolidge
"It is a book that mothers and daughters ought to own."
Mrs. Katharine L. Stevenson
"The book is strong, direct, pure, as healthy as a breeze from the mountain-top."
Mrs. Isabelle MacDonald Alden, "Pansy"
"It is just the book needed to teach what most people do not know how to teach, being scientific, simple and plain-spoken, yet delicate."
Miss Grace H. Dodge
"I know of no one who writes or speaks on these great subjects with more womanly touch than Mrs. Wood-Allen, nor with deeper reverence. When I listen to her I feel that she has been inspired by a Higher Power."
Ira D. Sankey
"Every mother in the land that has a daughter should secure for her a copy of 'What a Young Girl Ought to Know.' It will save the world untold sorrow."
"What a Young Woman Ought to Know."
BY MRS. MARY WOOD-ALLEN, M. D.
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PART I
CHILDHOOD AND GROWTH
Woman's worth—Importance of care of the body—How to obtain health—Waste and repair—Questions of food—Importance of rest in sleep—The office and importance of correct breathing—Injuries from tight clothing—Physical culture—Exercise and recreation—The value of the bath.
PART II
WOMANHOOD
The endowment of new powers—The conferring of life—Brain building and character formation—Soul and self—Special physiology—Woman's special bodily endowments—The crisis in the girl's life—Ovulation and menstruation—Their significance—Causes and cures of disturbed physical conditions—Painful periods and displacements—Special care of health at special times—Many healthful suggestions suited to the physical needs of young women—Secret vice and its consequences—The relation of pure young women to young men—Friendships.
PART III
What is love—Should include mental conjugality, spiritual sympathy and physical attraction—Responsibility in marriage—Antecedents, talents and habits of young man—The law of heredity—Beneficial—Effects of stimulants upon offspring—Inherited effects of immorality—Good characteristics also transmitted—Requisites in a husband—Engagements—Benefits of, evils of—Holding to the highest ideals—Weddings—Gifts, tours and realities of life.
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WHAT EMINENT PEOPLE SAY
Lady Henry Somerset
"An extremely valuable book, and I wish that it may be widely circulated."
Mrs. Laura Ormiston Chant
"The book ought to be in the hands of every girl on her fifteenth birthday, as a safe guide and teacher along the difficult path of womanhood."
Margaret Warner Morley
"There is an awful need for the book, and it does what it has undertaken to do better than anything of the kind I ever read."
Mrs. May Wright Sewall
"I am profoundly grateful that a subject of such information to young woman should be treated in a manner at once so noble and so delicate."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"It is a grave mistake for parents to try to keep their children ignorant of the very questions on which they should have scientific information."
Lillian M. N. Stevens
"There is a great need of carefully, delicately written books upon the subjects treated in this series. I am gratefully glad that the author has succeeded so well, and I trust great and enduring good will be the result."
Mrs. Matilda B. Carse
"It is pure and instructive on the delicate subjects that mean so much to our daughters, to their future as homekeepers, wives and mothers, and to the future generations."
"What a Young Wife Ought to Know."
BY MRS. EMMA F. A. DRAKE, M. D.
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HUSBAND AND HOME
The choice of a husband—One worthy of both love and respect—Real characteristics necessary—Purity vs. "wild oats"—What shall a young wife expect to be to her husband?—His equal, but not his counterpart—His helpmeet Wifehood and motherhood—Should keep pace with his mental growth—Trousseau and wedding presents—The foolish and ruinous display at weddings—Wedding presents and unhappiness—Wise choice of furniture—The best adornments for the home.
THE MARITAL RELATIONS
The marital state should be the most holy of sanctuaries—Its influence upon character—Modesty—Reproduction the primal purpose—Love's highest plane—The right and wrong of marriage—The wrongdoings of good men.
PARENTHOOD
Preparation for motherhood—Motherhood the glory of womanhood—Maternity productive of health—Clothing—Exercise—Baths, etc., etc.—The child the expression of the mother's thoughts—The five stages of prenatal culture.
PREPARATION FOR FATHERHOOD
Questions which test the fitness of young men for marriage—Many young men of startling worth—Effects of bad morals and wayward habits—Tobacco and Alcoholics—Attaining the best—The father reproduced in his children.
ANTENATAL INFANTICIDE
The moral responsibility of parents in heredity—The mother's investment of moulding power—Parents workers together with God—Ailments during expectant motherhood—Maternity a normal state—Development of the fœtus—Minuteness of the germ of human life—Changes which take place—Life present the moment conception takes place—The sin of tampering with the work of the Infinite.
THE LITTLE ONE
Baby's wardrobe—The question that comes with fluttering signs of life—Importance of wise choice of material and style of dress—Choice of physician and nurse of real consequence—The birth chamber—Surroundings and after-care of the mother—The care of the baby—The responsibilities and joys of motherhood—The mother the baby's teacher—Common ailments of children and how to treat them—Guarding against vice—The training of children—Body building—Helps for mothers.
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WHAT EMINENT PEOPLE SAY
Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster
"Joyfully I send you my unqualified endorsement of the excellent book, 'What a Young Wife Ought to Know.' I wish every young and perplexed wife might read its pages."
Charles H. Parkhurst, D.D.
"It handles delicate matters in a manner as firm as it is delicate, and dignifies even what is common by the purity of the sentiment and nobility of intent with which it is treated."
Marietta Holly (Josiah Allen's Wife)
"It is an excellent book; if every young wife of to-day would read it and lay its lessons to heart it would make the to-morrow much easier and happier for all of Eve's daughters."
W. G. Sperry, M.D.
"Young wives, for whom this book is intended, will receive great benefits from heeding its wise words. It is good for incitement, guidance, restraint."
Mrs. Joseph Cook
"It illuminates the Holy of Holies in the most sacred of earthly relationships with the white light of truth and purity."
Julia Holmes Smith, M.D.
"Be sure Dr. Drake's book is part of your daughter's outfit. I have never read anything which so thoroughly met the use it was designed for as this volume."
J. P. Sutherland, M.D.
"A subject difficult to treat has been handled by Dr. Drake with delicacy, earnestness and straightforwardness. It is a practical book destined to do good."
"What a Woman of Forty-five Ought to Know."
BY MRS. EMMA F. A. DRAKE, M. D.
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KNOWLEDGE OF CLIMACTERIC NECESSARY
Why women are not prepared to meet the climacteric—The fear that unnerves many—Error of views concerning "Change of Life"—Correct teaching stated—Influence of medical literature—Three periods in a woman's life—Relation of early habits to later aches and ills—The menopause—Conditions which influence the period of the climacteric—The age at which it usually appears—Effects of heredity—Childless women—Mothers of large families—Effects of different occupations—Excesses.
HERALDS OF CHANGE—DISEASES AND REMEDIES
Mental states during menopause—Change in blood currents—Flushes, chilliness, dizziness, etc.—Nervous symptoms—Disturbed mental and nervous equilibriums—Nature as woman's helper—Troublesome ailments—Mental troubles considered—Suggested help—Cancer—Benefits named—Apprehensions dispelled—How to banish worry—Simplifying daily duty—An eminent physician's prescription—A word to single women—Reluctance of unmarried women to meet the menopause—How to prolong one's youth—Dress during this period—The mother "At Sea"—Guarding against becoming gloomy—Effects of patent medicine advertising—Drug fiends—Lustful indulgence.
WHAT BOTH HUSBAND AND WIFE SHOULD REMEMBER
Slights and inattentions keenly felt by her—Need of patience—A word of private counsel—Value of little attentions—Wife's duty to her husband—Holding husband's affections—Making home attractive—Unselfishness.
AUTO-SUGGESTION AND OTHER SUGGESTIONS
Influence of mind over body—The mind as a curative agent—How to rise out of depression—Mental philosophy and physical betterment—Relation of health to sight—Care of the teeth—The hair—Constipation—Self cure—Choice of foods—Exercise—Physical development—Exercise of mind and soul.
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"What a Woman of Forty-five Ought to Know"
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