What a Young Husband Ought to Know

It is natural that parents should long for children, and it is only proper that those who are barren should seek by all judicious and proper means to secure fruitfulness. But we...

Before writing of what a young husband ought to know with regard to his wife and his children, subjects which are to engage our thought in Part Second and Part Third, it is impo...

A husband, whether young or old, should treat his wife with great consideration at all times, but if at any time she deserves more thoughtful consideration and more tender minis...

The foundation of marriage and of home can only be built permanently upon the abiding nature of love. Like our own being, love has a twofold nature. Its spiritual part is immort...

But while these changes have been taking place within the womb itself, and the decidua or thickened membrane has been forming about this developing germ of life, let us consider...

While it is possibly true that the most potent molding influences may be exerted prior to the birth of the child, yet where parents have lacked the intelligence to avail themsel...

From the moment of conception, during the months of gestation, at the time of childbirth and after, changes of great interest take place in the germ of human life and in the bod...

In a previous place we have spoken of the importance of industry and activity as important elements in a young wife, and as essential in securing success for the family, happine...

Space does not permit us to go into a full discussion of the theories and of the principles which lie at the basis of prenatal influences. A few illustrations, however, will be...

Few young husbands are intelligent guardians of their brides. Indeed, when first entering upon the marriage relation, young husbands are in danger of making some very serious mi...

At the end of about 280 days after the conception, or what under ordinary conditions would have been the tenth menstrual period, the days are completed and the expectant mother...

"As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman. Though she bends him, she obeys him; Though she draws him, yet she follows: Useless each without the other."

We now come in the third and last part of this book to write of what a young husband ought to know with regard to his children. If his children are to be greatly benefited by th...

Before a ship sails from port with its valuable cargo of goods and its priceless freightage of life, they do what is called "boxing the compass." Naturally the compass would poi...

It is both difficult and unnecessary to determine which is the superior of the two sexes. When the subject is regarded in its true light there is no superiority upon the part of...

The happiness of the individual and of the family often depends upon the influence and effects of very plain and everyday considerations, and in closing Part First there are a f...

We now come, in Part Second, to consider what a young husband ought to know concerning his wife. In this chapter we desire to speak of what he ought to know of his wife while sh...

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...

Many young men who are looking forward to marriage spend months of anxious forethought lest there should exist in them some physical incapacity which might unfit them for the ne...

The young man who marries finds himself in an entirely new relation in life. Grand as life may have been in the past, the present and the future are full of new meaning, of gran...

Weeds. Chapter 5, Reason Why Young Men Go Wrong. Chapter 6, Paying the Piper. Chapter 7, Where Young Men Belong. Chapter 8, What Young Men Must Be. Chapter 9, What Young Men Mus...

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 characte...

The opportunities for forming and reforming during infancy.--Books and periodicals on nurture and training of children.--Importance of first two years.--Evils of promiscuous kis...

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 menstru...

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...

Wonderful adaptation of body of the mother to reproduction.--How wonderful a watch which could oil, repair and produce other watches, and keep accurate time.--Wonders of reprodu...

Twofold nature of love.--Rooted in the physical, flowers in the spiritual.--Lust often miscalled love.--Three theories concerning the marital relation.--Unrestrained indulgence...

Natural for parents to desire offspring.--The prevalent unnatural desire to evade parenthood.--The crime of destroying unborn human life.--The law pronounces the crime murder.--...

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--H...

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...

The formation of the sacs about the germ of life.--Spontaneous segmentation.--Formation of Blastodermic membrane.--The embryonic spot.--The different membranes which enclose the...

Few young husbands intelligent guardians of their brides.--Many brides totally ignorant of everything relating to sex.--Depleted physical condition of most brides.--Ignorant bri...

Women keep life stable.--Men keep it from stagnation.--Influence of each a corrective upon the other.--The law of mental and physical resemblance of elderly married persons.--Wh...

Manifold duties of the wife.--The great army of martyred wives and mothers.--Need of consideration on the part of husbands.--Parenthood the great purpose of marriage.--The great...

Requisites in a good husband.--Woman's love of home and its adornments.--Keeping up the courtship.--The home, the club, and the loafing-place.--An instance in point.--The right...

Importance of knowledge contained in preceding volume.--Woman possessed of less sexual inclinations than man.--Threefold classification.--Those largely devoid of sexual feeling....

Birth at tenth menstrual period.--Labor-pains and after-pains.--Intelligent preparation removes anxiety and danger.--What the husband needs to know if no physician is present.--...

Only early knowledge can be of any benefit to offspring.--Our previous treatment of heredity.--The three periods of greatest molding power.--Relation of correct model to finishe...

Boxing the compass, or proving the principles.--Prevalent ignorance on subjects relating to sex.--Lessons taught by the reproduction of vegetable life.--The green scum of the po...

During maternity the wife should have special consideration.--Lack of intelligence often inspires fear and dread.--Discouraging and depressing remarks of some women to expectant...

Each sex superior in its sphere.--Two parts of a complete unit.--Differences between men and women.--Physically.--Intellectually.--These differences complemental.--The more nerv...

Happiness dependent upon plain everyday principles.--The defilement of the breath.--Effects on wife of the use of tobacco by the husband.--Effects upon physical and intellectual...

The new relation full of new meaning.--Lifted into a higher realm.--Love transforms the nature.--Marriage the estate of man's highest happiness.--The awakening of reproductive l...

Prenatal influences illustrated.--Robert Burns, Napoleon.--A kleptomaniac.--How some murderers were made.--Guiteau.--The mother of an artist.--The twins that liked books.--Vario...

Apprehensions awakened.--Foolish and injurious expedients resorted to.--Actual impotence not frequent.--Consult only intelligent and conscientious physicians.--How to remove the...

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 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 an...

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...

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 r...

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 breat...

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 bloode...