CHAPTER XIV

A MOTHER'S DUTY TO HER DAUGHTER

What a mother should tell her little girl--Where do babies come from--How baby birds and fish come from eggs--How other animals have little nests of their own--The duty of mothers to instruct and direct--What a mother should tell her daughter--Every mother should regard this duty as sacred--Every female child is a possible future mother--Motherhood the highest function of the sex--Health the one necessary essential--Symptoms of the first, or beginning menstruation--The period of puberty in the female--Changes in the reproductive organs at puberty--The female generative organs--The function of the reproductive organs--The age of puberty in the female--The function of the ovary--The function of the womb--Why menstruation occurs every twenty-eight days--The male or papa egg--The function of the spermatozoa--"Tell the whole story"--"How do these spermatozoa get there"--The union of the species--"How can a baby live in there for such a long time"--How the baby gets its nourishment in the womb--Girls must not become mothers ... PAGE 173