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 Woman Ought to Know.”

WHAT EMINENT PEOPLE SAY

Lady Henry Somerset

“An extremely valuable book, and I wish that it may be widely circulated.”

Mrs. Laura Ormiston Chant

“The book ought to be in the hands of every girl on her fifteenth birthday, as a safe guide and teacher along the difficult path of womanhood.”

Margaret Warner Morley

“There is an awful need for the book, and it does what it has undertaken to do better than anything of the kind I ever read.”

Mrs. May Wright Sewall

“I am profoundly grateful that a subject of such information to young woman should be treated in a manner at once so noble and so delicate.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“It is a grave mistake for parents to try to keep their children ignorant of the very questions on which they should have scientific information.”

Lillian M. N. Stevens

“There is a great need of carefully, delicately written books upon the subjects treated in this series. I am gratefully glad that the author has succeeded so well, and I trust great and enduring good will be the result.”

Mrs. Matilda B. Carse

“It is pure and instructive on the delicate subjects that mean so much to our daughters, to their future as home-keepers, wives and mothers, and to the future generations.”

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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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PRAISED BY THE PRESS

“Will dispell apprehensions aroused by groundless forebodings.”—_Reformed Church Messenger._

“If the hygienic advice in this book is followed it will lengthen the lives of women and make their closing years the happiest and most useful of all.”—_Herald and Presbyter._

“In no line of literature, perhaps, is such a book so much needed.”—_New Haven Leader._

“Those who peruse the book only from prurient curiosity will be disappointed.”—_Cleveland World._

“Should be read by every woman nearing and passing middle life.”—_Pittsburg Gazette._

“Written in that wholesome sympathetic manner characteristic of all the books in the Self and Sex Series.”—_Cleveland Daily World._

“Full of most admirable practical advice and it is written in a sympathetic manner which is the outcome of oneness of sex between the author and those whom she addresses.”—_Syracuse Herald._

“There are some things that a woman of forty-five does not know—things which she regards with more or less terror in the expectation—which terror it is the object of Mrs. Drake to dispel.”—_Rochester Herald._

“There is nothing in the book that could not be proclaimed from the house-tops, and there is everything in it that intelligent and thoughtful women should read and keep for their daughters to read when the proper time comes.”—_Newark Daily Advertiser._

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“What a Young Boy Ought to Know.”

BY SYLVANUS STALL, D. D.

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