CHAPTER VIII.

PURITY AND FIDELITY.

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 inheritance of offspring.--Effects of the use of liquor upon progeny.--The duty of fidelity.--One standard for both husband and wife.--The physical risks of impurity.--The sufferings of innocent and unsuspecting wives.--An impressive illustration.--Terrible effects suffered by wives as result of gonorrhA"a in husbands.--Unmistakable testimony of eminent physicians.--Not only physical effects upon wife, but moral effects upon self and children, 110