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The answer to the first question must depend upon the individual case. At a certain age a baby expresses a desire for something to bite. Before that time we make no effort to force him to bite. Later he finds he can help himself from one position to another by creeping. Then in a few months he discovers he is able to use his feet and tries to walk. We do not try to force any of these new ideas upon him but simply wait patiently until he expresses a desire to acquire some new knowledge, then we aid him and guide his efforts.
There comes a time in the life of every child when he awakens to knowledge of reproduction. Then is the time to give the information. Some children commence to inquire as early as three years. At such an early age it is not necessary to go into details, as a very little information suffices to satisfy the child.
Just how to tell the truths necessary must vary with the age of the child. It is important to remember to be truthful to the child. When a mother tells the child that the stork or the doctor brings the baby, she sets a seal upon evasion. Some day he will learn that his mother has deceived him and that behind her instruction lies an element of secrecy, and secrecy with its companion curiosity is the cause of much unrest in after life. The child gathers the idea that there must be something shameful connected with the birth of a child or his mother would not be ashamed to tell him the truth.
Secondly, the child must be told scientifically that this knowledge may form a basis for later studies in biology. He can be taught in a simple manner that all nature comes from a seed; that the mother makes a tiny nest for the seed and that with all seeds it is necessary for their growth that the father gives them some pollen.
Until these subjects are put before children and young people with some degree of intelligence and sympathetic handling, it cannot be expected that anything but the utmost confusion in mind and in morals should reign in matters of sex. It seems incredible that our thoughts could be so unclean that we find it impossible to give to our children the information they need on these most sacred subjects, but instead we allow them to obtain their information whenever and wherever they can and in the most unclean manner. A child at the age of puberty is capable of the most sensitive, affectional and serene appreciation of what sex means and can absorb the teachings if properly given without any shock to his sense of the fitness of things. Indeed whenever these subjects are taught to the child correctly they induce a feeling of reverence for the mother that could not otherwise be obtained. A little child when told that she grew in a nest in mother's body right underneath mother's heart at once becomes filled with a great love and wonder for that mother. Then later to teach the relation of fatherhood and how the love of parents for each other and their desire to have a child of their very own was the cause of that child's existence—these things seem so natural to the child mind that has not been polluted with vulgar ideas that they excite in him no sense of unfitness, only a deep gratitude and a kind of tender wonderment.
The great point to remember in teaching these things to children is to satisfy their present question and leave the understanding that mother (or father) always stands ready and willing to explain any problems that are bothering the child.
So many girls have told me that when they were between six and fourteen years of age they had heard some things about the land where the babies grow and immediately went to their mothers and inquired as to the truth of what they had heard. The invariable answer received was, "Little girls must not talk about such things." That silenced the child and the mother heaved a sigh of relief that the question had passed off so smoothly and easily. That little sentence has been the cause of innumerable mistakes and misery. That little sentence marked the beginning of the failure of the child to confide in her mother, the child never again would broach the subject to her mother. However, that did not mean that the child would not receive the information requested; for, as a rule, the girls who told of this incidence also remarked that they had received the information very soon from some older girl and frequently in a vulgar manner. If a mother wishes to retain the confidence of her daughter, if a father wishes to retain the confidence of his son they both must keep a keen lookout for the first questions and be prepared to answer them at the time.
Later on the special sexual needs of the boy or the girl can be explained, the necessity of cleanliness and the danger of self-abuse. The need of self-control and the possibility of deflecting physical desire to other channels and the great gain resulting; all these things the youth of either sex are capable of understanding and appreciating, and the knowledge given early will prevent many physical and moral wrecks.
It is the duty of fathers and mothers to prepare themselves on these subjects so as to have the answer ready when the child first inquires. There is no excuse for not doing so, for educators all over the country stand ready to help any parents who call upon them. It is possible for every community to obtain the services of a lecturer or teacher who will instruct the parents. The individual can obtain books which explain all these things simply and plainly. There is no excuse for ignorance.
CHAPTER XXIII
WOMEN IN BUSINESS
If all homes were ideal and all men likewise, there would be no question of woman suffrage or woman in business. But this is not an ideal world; all women who have kept their places and stayed at home, kept house and taken care of their children have not led ideal lives. In too many instances the home woman, the little wren, has been deserted for the gay song-bird. The necessities of life have forced other women into the business world—women whose preference would be for the ideal, quiet home life. One must not think that because a woman is leading a public life that she prefers it, that she has no desire for a home and little ones. Often her choice has been the lesser of two evils,—more to be desired than a life, married, but loveless; one in which she must slave from morn till eve and then receive as recompense curses and fault-finding.
The woman who refuses to so demean the married life as to enter into such a marriage, preferring instead the busy life of a bachelor maid, is to be admired rather than condemned. That she makes a success of her business life tends to show what some man has missed by not proving himself worthy to be her husband.
We hear so much about woman entering into business—just as though she had not always been in business. Stop and think about our ancestors on the farms. The woman shared the work equally with the man. He attended to the heavier work, while she attended to that which required less physical strength but more attention to details. The products of her industry often brought as much ready cash as that derived from the sale of the larger products of the farm. Many families depended for the yearly supply of clothes and luxuries on the money thus obtained from the sale of butter, eggs and chickens. In olden days, too, many a woman derived an income from the sale of home-made rugs and counterpanes.
Just how men have conceived the idea that it is only the modern woman who is a money earner, I cannot understand, nor can I understand how some men expect women to be happy in idleness. The most unhappy women in the world are the women who have a great deal of leisure time. Many a man objects to his wife taking up any outside work even though it would not interfere with her household duties. This usually is due to false pride on his part. He is afraid of what others will say; afraid his friends will think he is not capable of supporting his wife. Some of these men forget to take into account the possibility that an accident or illness may take him away, business failures may sweep away his accumulations and then his wife must face the necessity of earning her living. Alas, how seldom is she prepared to do this! If, during the leisure time of her protected life, she had been perfecting herself in some branch of industry, her future would be easily solved.
A woman can devote several hours a day to outside affairs and still not neglect her home duties. Home-making does not necessarily mean that the woman herself must do the washing, ironing, cooking, baking or sewing. She must see that these are performed properly but the actual work may all be done by others. A business man does not attempt to do all the work of the office himself. He employs a bookkeeper, a clerk and a stenographer to attend to the details while he directs. It is the same way with a home, a woman may employ others to do the physical labor while she directs.
Then as to the married woman earning money. Let me give you an illustration. A woman has spent the early part of her life perfecting herself in some branch of work, for instance, book cover designing. She marries a man in moderate circumstances and does not feel that she can afford to be idle and employ someone else to do her house work. She is a slenderly built woman and it would be a great tax on her strength to perform all the household duties—for some parts of housekeeping require such hard physical labor that even many men would not care to attempt them. It certainly would seem a very reasonable thing for this woman to devote several hours a day to book cover designing and use the money so earned to employ a strong woman to do the heavy housework. This arrangement would be better for all concerned; first, the woman would be happier and more contented; next, the man would enjoy his home more, for any man certainly would rather come home and find his wife contented and happy and with leisure time to devote to him, than to come home and find her all tired out, and consequently cross, with the housework so unfinished she must devote her evening to some household task.
If circumstances have given a woman home and children, they always must come first, but this does not mean the woman must do housework if conditions permit the employment of somebody to do it. She must do the work for which she is best fitted both by nature and by training.
In whatever occupation a woman is engaged she should endeavor to make a success of that work, to do it a little better than anyone else could; for in every field of endeavor there is joy and reward for always being and doing one's best. The great secret of success is concentration. Too many women waste their energies thinking and talking about the things they would like to do. Every time you talk about the thing you would like to do you waste just that much energy and make your goal less possible of achievement. That which seems difficult before is usually found easy to accomplish, once undertaken. If you wish to accomplish anything hold the thought in your mind and concentrate all your powers in that direction. Do not scatter your energies like chaff to be blown hither and thither.
CHAPTER XXIV
NERVOUSNESS—A LACK OF CONTROL
How often do we meet women who complain of being nervous. What they really mean is that they have not control of their nerves but let them run away. A woman may be of a nervous temperament and yet have such good control of her nerves that she never complains of being nervous. This lack of nerve control manifests itself in various ways. Sometimes it only is a tendency to cry at trivial things or an inclination to despondency—to have "the blues," or to worry over real or fancied slights. Many women waste so much time thinking over things that are past and gone. A visit with a friend loses its joy in the afterthought, for this victim of the nerves lives over again every moment of the visit. She recalls everything that has been said and wonders if a different meaning were meant. Things that were said as a joke and originally taken that way now are brought up for criticism and pondered over until the woman convinces herself of the presence of a hidden meaning. She is not satisfied until she has bent and shapen the original thoughtless sentence into an ugly sting.
These nervous women are the ones who continually are tormented with the demon of jealousy. If one of them should suddenly meet her husband on the street walking with another woman, what a curtain lecture he would receive that evening; or if not that, he finds his wife wearing the air of one who considers herself much abused. The real facts of the case may be that her husband met the other woman quite accidentally and, as they were going in the same direction, he could not avoid walking with her without being positively rude. In this age men must, of necessity, have business transactions with women. It is a common occurrence for two men to lunch together in order to have a chance to talk over some important business without fear of interruption. There is no reason why a man and woman might not do the same, and yet how impossible it would be to convince the jealous woman that this was the case. To be jealous is to acknowledge the superior charms of the other woman. "If I cannot hold you against all women, then I do not want you." If you think some other woman is attracting your husband, wake up and beat her at her own game. Do not sit idly in the corner and complain. You only are making yourself miserable and not trying to right the wrong.
A woman who is nervous usually does not realize what is the cause of her condition. When excitable and irritable and suffering from a nervous headache, she takes various remedies to deaden the symptoms, instead of looking the matter squarely in the face and going after the cause.
Many women need a hobby to take up their spare time and to occupy their minds. If their minds are occupied and their bodies kept in good condition by proper care, they soon will gain control of their nerves. If you find yourself getting nervous, make up your mind to overcome it by filling your life so full of work and play that you will have no time to give way to the nerves. When you feel an attack coming on, get busy and "work it off."
There is a class of women who possess comfortable homes, with a maid to do the work, whose home duties are not confining and who find themselves with a great deal of extra time on their hands. To these women the days are long and they endeavor to pass away the time by doing nerve racking fancy work or by "fussing" around the house. They are not happy and contented, chiefly because their minds are being neglected—are growing up to weeds like a neglected garden. For such a woman club work is a boon. She should take up some especial kind of work, and devote several hours a day to the study of it. At first this will be hard, for a mind that has fallen into lazy ways is not easily aroused to continual effort, the deeply rooted weeds are not easily destroyed.
Many half contented women realize this need of mental food but hesitate. As one woman said, "Why, my husband would leave me if I started to work!" Some men take a peculiar attitude towards women. They would like to treat them as a woman treats her pet dog. The dog is provided with a comfortable home, plenty of food, someone to bathe it and carry it around. The dog is contented with this. It loves to sleep and eat the livelong day; it comes when its mistress calls, and goes when she is tired of it. Unfortunately, perhaps, all women cannot be contented with such a life. The woman was given a brain which refuses to be dormant. If it is not required to be used in a useful way, it occupies itself with bad thoughts—it worries and becomes fault finding or gossiping.
No woman should allow her mind to grow up to such weeds. If the circumstances of her position, her education or her environment seem to make it unwise that she take up any work that would bring a monetary reward, she easily can find some charitable work that needs all the energies she can devote to it. If such a woman would take up some special branch of philanthropic work she would be amply rewarded, not only by the consciousness of the good she had done, but by the improvement in her own health and happiness.
There is another phase to this lack of nerve control shown in a nervous tension, an inability to relax and enjoy life. Some people go through the day on such a nervous tension that they are unable to take cognizance of their surroundings. Eventually this tension will manifest itself in some disorder, as headache, nervous indigestion or complete nervous prostration. In the latter case the nerves have been so abused, so strained that at last they are worn out. A rest is imperative!
A woman who, if she has a few spare moments, can lie down and relax absolutely, perhaps even drop to sleep, has a better chance to stand the stress and strain of business or of housekeeping than the one who finds it impossible to do so. Try making it a point to lie down for two or three minutes several times a day; lie flat on your back and relax every muscle; put every worry or ugly thought out of your mind by thinking some pleasant but soothing sentence as, "I am glad I can rest. I will be happy when I arise." You will be surprised at the effect these few moments a day will produce upon your health and happiness.
Plenty of sleep is imperative for these women and yet so many of them neglect this great restorer of the nervous system. Frequently these women complain of an inability to go to sleep easily, and spend long hours of the night lying awake and entertaining worry thoughts. This symptom of disordered nerves should not be neglected. A warm bath before retiring, followed by a gentle massage, especially along the spine, will, by relaxing the nerves and muscles, produce very good results. A hot foot-bath, by drawing the blood away from the brain, often will be beneficial. A glass of hot milk or cocoa taken just before retiring may have the same effect. If the sleeplessness is a result of indigestion a plain diet will relieve. Sleeping upon a hard bed without a pillow sometimes produces the desired effect. Always have plenty of fresh air in the room. Keep the mind free from the cares of the day. If they will intrude crowd them out by repeating some soothing sentence as: "There is no reason why I should not sleep, therefore, I shall sleep. My body is relaxed, my mind is at peace, sleep is coming, I am getting sleepy, I am about to sleep." Never take any sleeping powders except upon the advice of a physician, for the majority of these sleeping powders contain some harmful drug, as morphine, codeine, phenacetin or acetanilid. The latter especially is very depressing to the heart and serves to weaken the nervous system. In fact many deaths may be laid at the door of these drugs. Treatments to tone up the nervous system and to improve the circulation often are indicated in these cases of "nerves." Control your nerves, do not let them control you!
CHAPTER XXV
A WOMAN IS AS YOUNG AS SHE WANTS TO BE
Have you ever thought why it is that some women are as young at forty as others are at twenty-four? And I mean young not frivolous! It is every woman's duty to keep young as long as possible, but, unfortunately, she does not always know the best way to live up to that duty. Keeping young means keeping your body in a perfectly healthy condition and your mind in harmony. With attention to certain laws a woman can detract ten years from her age. She can do this by treating herself as a friend and not as a slave. Take ten minutes and think how you could improve yourself by a little effort. Perhaps some of these suggestions will help you.
Everyone needs exercise. Just what sort depends upon the occupation of the individual. A woman doing housework exercises most of her muscles during the day, and if she makes pleasure, and not drudgery out of her work, this exercise is very beneficial. It is a pleasure to be able to accomplish so much, but the housework is not sufficient exercise. This woman needs exercise for her mind and for her beauty-loving soul. In her spare time she should lie under the trees and enjoy nature or a good book, or she should go to some gathering where she will meet those who will refresh her intellectually. Keep the mind open to all the impressions of nature. Love the open air. Fresh air is not a fad, it is a necessity if one would keep young. Occasionally read a book of travel or a biography of some well-known person. Keep mentally alert. An intellectual back number adds years to her seeming age. Nothing makes for youth as a young mind, save perhaps a young heart.
If a woman wishes to retain her attractiveness and not grow dull and uninteresting, she must be interested in the outside world. Make it a point to go somewhere every day. If you cannot do anything else, put the baby in the cart and walk a few blocks. Do not say you are too busy. It is necessary for your health and you will find a few minutes' outing will give you renewed energies and help you to see the silver lining. If possible go to social affairs where you meet people. Invite others to your home but do not tire yourself entertaining them. People who are boarding enjoy a simple home-cooked meal. It is the "homey" air they enjoy and not elaborate decorations or menu.
A woman in an office needs different exercise. She needs to do something that will stretch and strengthen the tired muscles. She also needs plenty of fresh air. A brisk walk is one of the best exercises for her. Walk part of the way to the office, if possible, and keep your eyes open for interesting things you pass. Use your imagination in guessing the life story of those you meet. Forget yourself by becoming interested in others, and you will be surprised at the effect upon your outlook on life. It is not work that makes the business girl grow old and careworn as much as it is her inability to forget her work during her play or rest time. A business man takes an occasional day off and goes hunting or fishing, but the business girl seldom can afford the little trips that would serve to break the monotony of work. But every day brings its opportunities for little pleasures that are available. Remember it is the small things of life that make up its enjoyment. Once in a while at noon go to some especially nice lunch room where you will see well dressed women, where the service is faultless and every mouthful and every moment enjoyable. You will come away filled with such a sense of well-being that you will be able to accomplish twice as much in the way of work. Many business girls do not entertain themselves well enough. They become so imbued with the spirit of economy that they deny themselves the little pleasures that would make life enjoyable. This reacts upon their work and ability. These people who continually stint themselves never achieve great success. They repress themselves so much that they quell all their best impulses. They never expand.
Learn self-control. Anger is a rapid wrinkle bringer. The energy that is wasted in useless worry and tirade against circumstances might be conserved and diverted into other channels that would bring you abundant reward, financially as well as in other ways. Avoid worry, hurry and getting flustered. Plan your work in the morning, then take the little interruptions coolly and quietly. You will not be half so tired at the end of the day as you would be otherwise. Be temperate. Moderation does not refer only to the stomach. Overdoing in any way makes for premature age.
Do not let yourself get sluggish and indifferent. Here is where the benefits of massage, physical culture and a vital interest in life come in. Youth is happiness! If you would be young, radiate happiness. Talk happiness not ill-health. One certain symptom of advancing age is the desire to talk about ill-health. Discussing operations you have undergone or sickness you have experienced always attracts attention to your age. Children seldom talk about ill-health. An illness once conquered is forgotten. Another thing, do not whine. The American women are noted for their unpleasant voices, which often are too high pitched, showing lack of control. Cultivate a low, well-modulated voice. Recently I met a young woman who had a deformed body and a plain face, but I immediately was attracted to her because she had the most beautiful speaking voice it ever was my privilege to hear.
As we age in years we are liable to grow careless in our dress, to select colors and styles that are not very becoming; we do not take as much pains with our hair, our nails or our shoes as we should. We have allowed age to manifest itself in the lack of care of the little things.
Finally, if your work does not bring you happiness, you are in the wrong place and the sooner you find the right place the better for you. It is impossible to take a race horse and expect to make him a good plow horse. We only would spoil the one without succeeding in obtaining the other. There is a right place for everyone and each one is adapted to certain things and in order to accomplish the most we must "find ourselves."
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INDEX
Abortions, 89 Accidental, 90 Criminal, 91 Prevalence, 92, 112 Sterility following, 95
Advertisements, misleading, 65
Advertising physicians, 173
After-birth, 83
Amenorrhoea, 40
Anatomy of generative organs, 11
Anus, 16
Atrophy of generative organs, 30
Backache, displacement causing, 36 Fake advertisements concerning, 67 Gonorrhoea causing, 61 Lumbago, rheumatism, strain, 67
Bag of waters, 86
Birth canal, 13
Black plagues, see Gonorrhoea and Syphilis Causing tumors, 42
Bladder, openings into, 17 Position in relation to womb, 11
Blindness, due to gonorrhoea, 59 Infection, prevalence of in new born, 60
Blue baby, 87
Blues, 195
Born with caul or veil, 86
Boys, need of instruction, 178 Why boys go astray, 171
Breasts, after menopause, in pregnancy, 19 At puberty, 24
Cancer, carcinoma, 43
Cathartics, 51
Cavity of pelvis, 11
Cavity of womb, openings into, 11, 12
Change of life, see Menopause
Child bearing period, 23
Childless homes, 103
Chlorosis, 40
Circumcision in girls, 41
Clandestine engagements, 157
Clap, see Gonorrhoea.
Clitoris, hooded, 17 Causing nervousness and immorality, 41
Coitus, 74
Conception, 74 Prevention of, 109
Congestion from tight clothing, 37
Constipation, 47 Caused by retroversion, 34, 49 Causes, 48
Cord, 83
Cramps during menopause, 30
Development of life, 81
Diseases of female organs, 33 Influence on appearance, 28 Venereal diseases, 56
Displacements, causes of, 33 Backward, constipation caused by, 34 Bladder, pressure on, 35 Downward, side, 37 Forward, 36 Hemorrhoids caused by, 34 Menstruation, relation to, 34 Treatment, 35
Divorce, 115 Black plagues as a factor, 117 Sterility as a factor, 118
Douche, for cleanliness, at close of period, 21 In irritation of vagina, 40
Drug habit, from patent medicines, 69 In constipation, 51
Dry labor, 86
Dysmenorrhoea, 39
Education, lack of for girls, 77
Egg, see Ovum.
Embryo, 82
Embryology, 81
Epilepsy due to syphilis, 101
Excesses Cause of premature old age, 76 Causing congestion, 38 During early married life, 74
Exercise For business woman, 205 For home woman, 203
External generative organs, description, 16 Care, 20
Fake advice, 65
Fallopian tubes, description, position, 14 Effect of gonorrhoea on, 57 Removal, effect of, sterility from removal, 58 Tumors of, 42
Father's duty to son, 181
Fear, needless, 106
Fertilization of ovum, 74, 81
Flirtations and their results, 157
Foetal movements, 84
Foetus, 82
Gonorrhoea Effect on female organs, 57 Persistence of in later years, 57 Prevalence of, 56
Prevention of in youth, 63 Symptoms, 61
Green sickness, 40
Happiness necessary, 208
Headache, from constipation, 48 From displacements, 37 Powders, 69
Heart valves of baby, 87
Hemorrhage in cancer, 43
Hemorrhoids, 47 Bleeding, external, internal, pain from, 49 From constipation, 48 Retrodisplacements causing, 34 Treatment, 49
Herb remedies as drugs, 69
Heredity, inherited tendency to disease, 99 Tuberculosis, syphilis, 100
Home-making a study, 78
Homes, childless, 103 Girls not interested in parents' home, 135
Hot flashes during menopause, 30
Hymen, 18 Not injured by douche, 40 Opening in, 41 Unruptured in pregnancy, 154
Illegitimacy, 152
Immorality, due to low wages, effects of, 149 Among children, in country districts, in school, 123 Due to hooded clitoris, 41
Indigestion, 52
Inflammation causing dysmenorrhoea, 39
Inherited syphilis, 62
Intercourse, 75
Insemination, 74
Jealousy, 196
Kiss conveying contagion, 61
Knee chest position, 37 For constipation and hemorrhoids, 49
Labia majora and minora, 17
Labor, dry, 86 Duration of, 87 Pains, cause of, 85 Premature, 89
Lanugo, 84
Law regarding prevention of pregnancy, 109
Laxatives, 51
Leucorrhoea, 38 In young girls, 40
Life feeling, 84
Love, misunderstood, 132
Lumbago, backache in, 67
Lungs of newborn child, 87
Maidenhead, see Hymen.
Malignant tumor, 43
Marriage, education necessary for, 72 Fake marriages used to obtain white slaves, 168 False promises leading to immorality, 151 For convenience, natural, 116 Laws not adequate, 115 Relation, 71 Science of, successful and otherwise, 71 Social reasons for, 103
Massage, for constipation, 51
Mating, 73
Meatus urinarius, 17
Medical, fake advertisements, 67
Medicine, doubtful results from, 68 Patent, 45
Membrane, 86
Menstruation, absence of, 40 Bathing during, 27 Care during, 26 Color, odor, 29 Composition of flow, 28 Deficiency of, 40 Description of, 23 Duration of, frequency, 23, 28 Lassitude during, 27 Pain during, 27, 39 Phenomena common to, 27 Profuse flow, 28 Quantity, time between periods, 29 Sign of approach of period, 25 Source of flow, 16
Menopause, age, 29 Bowels in, 21 Breasts after, 31 Cancer at, 43 Care during, symptoms of approach, 30 Changes in body, nervous system, 30 Duration, diet, 31 End of child-bearing period, 23 Hot flashes during, necessity for examination, 30 Relaxation, rest, worry during, 31
Miscarriage, 89
Modesty, false, 134
Motherhood, accidental, a science, preparation for, 77 Fear regarding, 106 Natural desire of all women, 104
Mucous patches in syphilis, 61
Nerve trouble, due to syphilis, 62
Nervousness A lack of control, 195 Due to hooded clitoris, 41 Overcoming, 197 Relation to intercourse, 76
Neuralgia, backache, 67 Causing dysmenorrhoea, 39
Ovary, description, function, position, 14 Tumor, see Tumor.
Oviduct, see Fallopian tube, 14
Ovum, 14 Relation to menstruation, 29 Division into portions, growth, 81 Passage from ovary to uterus, impregnation, 81 Size, 82
Passion or sex sense, 73
Parents' duty to daughters, 167 To sons, 171
Patent medicine, 45 Of doubtful benefit, 68
Pelvis, 11 Deformed in abortions, 91
Peritoneum, 16
Peritonitis, 16 From displacement and inflammation of womb, 37 From gonorrhoea, 58 From appendicitis, 59
Perineum, 18 Tearing during labor, 19, 87
Physiology of female organs, 11
Piles, see Hemorrhoids.
Placenta, 83
Position of foetus in utero, 85
Pregnancy, absence of menstruation, 40 Among unmarried girls, 151 Fertilization before, 74 Prevention of, 109
Premature birth, labor, 89
Prostitution, result of, 155
Puberty, 23 Change in nervous system, 24 Hygiene during, school work during, 24 Premonitory symptoms, signs of approach, 24 Preparatory information, necessity for, 24
Public cup, 61
Pus tubes, see Fallopian tubes.
Race improvement, 111
Race suicide, education in relation to, 104 Not increased by knowledge of means of prevention, 113
Rectum, position in relation to womb, 11 In retrodisplacement, 34
Regulation of number of children, 111
Relaxation, 199
Rest, 200
Rheumatism, backache, 67 Dysmenorrhoea due to, 39
Sac, 85
Sanitary pads, 26
Self-abuse, 137 Hooded clitoris as a cause, 139 Mental, 139 Nervous system injured, 138 Treatment, 139
Self-confidence, 145
Self-control, 206
Semen, 74
Sex, education needed regarding, 72, 121 Fundamental end of, over-indulgence, 74 Instinct, 73 Instruction for children, 183 Organs formed fourth month, 83
Skin disease due to syphilis, 101
Sleep, sleeplessness, treatment, 200
Spermatozoon, 74 Death due to disease, 107 Union with ovum, 81 Size, 82
Sterility After one birth, 108 Due to abortions, 95 Due to gonorrhoea, 58 Due to indiscretions, in male, 107
Stomach trouble due to syphilis, 62
Syphilis, 61 Causing abortions, 90 Causing epilepsy, brain and skin lesions, 101 Contracted from wet nurse, 62 Conveyed by kiss, by public cup, 61 Inherited, 62, 100 Late symptoms, 62 Prevention in youth, treatment, 63
Tears of perineum, 19 Necessity for repair, 30 Relation to cancer, 43
Teas, laxative, 51
Tomboys, 133
Toxines from constipation, 48
Tubes, see Fallopian tubes.
Tumor, abdominal, caused by black plagues, 42 Absorption of, removal, 42 Causing dysmenorrhoea, 39 Hemorrhoidal, 34 Malignant, 43 Phantom, 43 Symptoms of, hemorrhage, pain in, 42
Ulcers in syphilis, 62
Umbilical cord, 83
Urethra, 17
Urination, frequent, caused by displacement, 35
Uterus, see Womb.
Vagina, description of, 13 Discharge from, 38 Infection from use of public towels, 60 Irritation of, 40 Orifice of, 17
Vein of cord, 83
Vernix caseosa, 85
Venereal diseases, 56
Vibrator for constipation, 51
Wet nurse in syphilis, 62
Womb, attachment, 13 Cancer of, 43 Congestion from tight clothing, 37 Contraction of mouth, 39 Inflammation from displacements, 37 Position, size, structure, shape, 11 Over work causing congestion, 38
Wild oats, sown by girls, 150
White slavery, 163
Women in business, 189
Worry, an abuse, 143
Youth, obtainable, 203
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BY E. B. LOWRY, M.D.
HIMSELF
TALKS WITH MEN CONCERNING THEMSELVES
This is regarded by all authorities as the best book on sexual hygiene for men. No man knowing its contents would be without this important book. It tells plainly all of the facts about sex and leads to health, happiness and success. A book that points the way to strong vitality and healthy manhood.
Every man ought to read this excellent, reliable book.—Philadelphia Telegraph.
The best book on sexual hygiene for men and we highly commend it.—Baltimore American.
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Every youth and man who can read the English language should study this book.—Portland Oregonian.
A rare book that treats its subject in a common-sense fashion.—Pittsburgh Post.
This is a storehouse of knowledge that should be in the hands of every man.—United States Medical Journal.
It is utterly free from hysteria and sticks straight to the unadulterated truth. A valuable addition to any man's library.—Spokane Chronicle.
It is as good a book as a physician could recommend.—Northwest Medicine.
Clear, accurate, easily understood.—Chicago Journal.
Illustrated. Cloth, 12mo.
Price, $1.00 net; by mail, $1.10
For sale by all booksellers and the publishers
FORBES & CO., 443 S. Dearborn St., CHICAGO
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BY E. B. LOWRY, M.D.
CONFIDENCES
TALKS WITH A YOUNG GIRL CONCERNING HERSELF
A book explaining the origin and development of life in language intelligible to young girls. The author, who is a physician of wide experience and a pleasing writer, has very delicately and adequately treated this important subject.
Carefully written and should be given to every young girl.—American Motherhood.
Every physician should read and circulate this book.—Journal of Therapeutics.
Neatly bound in cloth. 16mo.
Price, 50 cents net; by mail, 55 cents
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TRUTHS
TALKS WITH A BOY CONCERNING HIMSELF
A book containing the simple truths of life development and sex which should be given to every boy approaching manhood. His future welfare demands it. This is the first book to adequately and delicately present these truths in language intelligible to boys from ten to fourteen years of age.
The first satisfactory book on the subject.—Health Culture Magazine.
Many a mother will be glad that such a book is within the reach of her child.—Seattle Post Intelligencer.
Attractively bound in cloth. 16mo.
Price, 50 cents net; by mail, 55 cents
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FALSE MODESTY
THAT PROTECTS VICE BY IGNORANCE
The most thorough and convincing appeal ever made for the proper education of the young in matters pertaining to sexual hygiene by the foremost writer on the subject.
Dr. Lowry's books combine medical knowledge, simplicity, and purity in an unprecedented way. They are chaste and void of offense to the most delicate natures.—The Journal of Education, Boston.
Cloth, 16mo.
Price, 50 cents net; by mail, 55 cents
For sale by all booksellers and the publishers,
FORBES & CO., 443 S. Dearborn Street, CHICAGO
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BY E. B. LOWRY, M.D.
YOUR BABY
A GUIDE FOR MOTHERS
This book contains the latest and best approved methods for the care of the mother and baby. It is a strong plea for better babies and every doctor will welcome the circulation of this great help to mothers.
"This book can be safely and heartily recommended to every prospective mother."—The Chicago Medical Recorder.
"The directions are clear and the advice is sensible."—New York Sun.
"This helpful book is in keeping with Dr. Lowry's previously published meritorious works."—The Southern Clinic.
"A safe, sane and interesting book which it would be well for every young woman to read. It deserves a wide circulation."—The Wisconsin Medical Journal.
Cloth bound. 256 pages.
Price, $1.00; by mail, $1.10
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THE HOME NURSE
This very useful book gives helpful directions for the care of the sick in the home and tells how to co-operate with the physician in providing for the comfort and cure of invalids.
"A sensible book, and it should be in every home book-shelf."—Northwest Medicine, Seattle.
"Uniting practical common sense with the best medical knowledge, it forms a safe guide."—American Journal of Nursing, Baltimore.
"It serves a very useful purpose and is readily understood. Physicians will welcome the circulation of this excellent book."—Medical Sentinel, Portland, Ore.
Illustrated. Cloth, 12mo.
Price, $1.00; by mail, $1.10
For sale by all booksellers and the publishers, FORBES & CO., 443 S. Dearborn Street, CHICAGO
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