What a Young Husband Ought to Know
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 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 fA"tus--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 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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