to be agreeable they must talk "small talk;" this literally means,
"silly twaddle," which disgusts everybody, and yet which all seek to
imitate. Whenever the two sexes meet in society or elsewhere, as at
all other times, the conversation should be turned upon subjects of
real interest, which admit of the exercise of sound sense and will be
a means of culture. Such associations do not result in injury to any
one, and may be the means of much profit; but nothing is more execrable
than the frivolous, silly, often absolutely senseless observations
which make up the great bulk of the conversation of young people in
fashionable society.
The most ready means of disclosing the superficial character of the
minds of a large share of the young persons who move in fashionable
circles is to introduce some topic requiring depth of thought and sound
judgment. Such a subject will usually produce either an instant lull
in the conversation or a display of ignorance which cannot fail to
reveal the shallowness of the speaker's intellect. It is this
superficial class of minds that most easily fall victims to a sickly
sentimentalism, which readily leads to digressions from the pathway
of rigid virtue.
A boy who has the elements of true manliness in him will carry a
gentlemanly bearing wherever he goes. In all his deportment, and
especially in his conduct toward the opposite sex, he will act the
gentleman; and the boy whose gentility is genuine will manifest the
same kind deference toward his mother and sisters as toward other ladies
and girls. So also the young lady who is a lady at heart, will never
allow herself to forget the rules of propriety, whether she is in the
company of her father and brothers, or that of other gentlemen.
All the rules of etiquette are worth little compared with the one simple
rule which is applicable to both sexes and all ages,--"Have the heart
right, and then act natural." One so governed will not go very far astray
under any circumstances; but it is of the greatest importance that the
heart be right. To make it such is, indeed, the great business of life.
"BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART."
INDEX.
PAGE.
Abortion, 271
" results of, 280
Accidental pregnancy, 236
Adaptation to marriage, 127
Advice to boys, 468
Advice to girls, 499
Advice to boys and girls, 501
Afterbirth, 68
Amativeness, 177
Amaurosis, 369
Amenorrhoea, 95
Animalcula, 26
Ante-natal influences, 105
Antediluvian wickedness, 286
Bad language, 461
Bad company, 458
Bad books, 462
" " influence of, 463
" " effects of, 486
Balls, demoralizing effect of, 204
Beauty, how to develop, 473
Beer-drinking by nursing mothers, 71
Beer, evil effects of, 467
Betrothal of infants, 138
Birth, changes at, 69
Bladder, irritation of, 203
Boarding-schools, danger of, 495
Books, bad, 186
" obscene, 187
Brain, male and female, 42
Breasts, 70
" atrophy of the, 374
Breath, causes of foul, 89
"Bundling," 140
Cancer, cause of, 253
" of the womb, 374
Castration, 114
Catamenia, 81
Causes of unchastity, 181
Cells, development of, 104
Chastity, 174
Chlorosis, 95, 343
Cider, evil effects of, 467
Circumcision, 113, 410
Civilization, perverting influence of, 181
Classification of living creatures, 27
Clitoris, 57, 73
Coitus, 57
Colds, how to prevent, 84
Colostrum, 70
Conception, prevention of, 250
Condiments, 210, 292
Conjugal onanism, 250
Constipation, 202
Consumption, 365
" cause of, 230, 435
Continence, 205
" male, 256
" not injurious, 205
" difficulty of, 208
" helps to, 209
Conversation, trifling, 503
Copulation, 57
Courtship, 136
" evils of, 137
Courtships, long, 140
Crime, source of, 107
" cause of, 454
Criminality hereditary, 107
Critical period, a, 482
Dancing, 196
Day-dreams, 177
Desirable qualities, how to produce, 113
Development, 59, 477
" premature, 78
Development in higher animals, 61
Diet, 390
" influence on chastity, 182
Disease, 301
" obscure causes of, 376
Diurnal emissions, 359
Divorce, loose laws of, 153
Dozing, danger of, 212
Dreams, 396
" how to control, 397
Dress and sensuality, 190
Dressing unhealthfully, 89
Dress reform, 193
Drinks, stimulating, 392
Drugs, 411
Dwarfs, 431
Dysmenorrhoea, 94
Dyspepsia, 366
" cause of, 434
Early associations, 314
" marriage, 126
" training, 310
" " lack of, 295
" decline, cause of, 481
Egypt a hot-bed of vice, 286
Electricity, 407
Embryo, 63
" simple structure of, 64
" stages of growth of, 65
Emissions, effect of, 356
" internal, 361
" nocturnal, 353
Endurance of women, 43
Epilepsy, 344
" cause of, 244
Evil habits, 427
Excesses, marital, 216
" results of, 225
" effects of on wives, 231
" effects of on husbands, 226
Extra-uterine pregnancy, 97
Eyes, weakness of, 369
Fallopian tube, 74
False delicacy, 92
" training, 473
Fashion, 294
" and vice, 192
Fashionable dissipation, 478
Fecundation, 52
" in flowers, 53
" modes of, 55
" in fishes, 56
" in reptiles, 56
" in higher animals, 56
" in hermaphrodites, 59
Feeling apparatus, 425
Females, imperfect, 58
Female organs, 73
" organs of flowers, 48
Fetus, respiration of, 67
" influenced through the blood, 67
Fishes, development in, 60
" fecundation in, 56
Filthy dreams, 179
" talkers, 180
Flirtation, evils of, 143
" youthful, 144
" childish, 487
Flowers, polygamous, 47
" female organs of, 48
" fecundation in, 53
Fomentations, 405
Foods, stimulating, 392
Force, life, 29
Functions of life, 30
General debility, 365
Generation, laws of, 219
" physiological, 112
" spontaneous, 31
" ancient theory of, 32
Gestation, duration of, 66
Girlhood, 471
Girls, a chapter for, 470
" causes which lead astray, 484
" how ruined, 493
Gluttony, 292
Habit, power of, 496
Health essential to beauty, 474
Health hints, 88, 93
Heart disease, 367
Heredity, 102
" laws of, 243
" of disease, 109
" of crime, 107
Hermaphrodism, 36
Hermaphrodites, fecundation in, 59
Hip bath, 93
Human machine, the, 423
Human wrecks, 437
Human form, 474
Human buds, 476
Husbands, improvident, 170
Hybrids, 100
Hymen, 73
Hysteria, 95, 343
" causes of, 96, 375
Idiocy, 371
" cause of, 433
Idleness, 189
Ignorance, 300
Ill-health of girls, causes of, 472
Illustrative cases, 437
Imbecility, 371
Impotence, 363, 410
" not produced by continence, 207
Infanticide, 271
" among various nations, 273
Infant intoxication, 70
Infants, betrothal of, 138
Insanity, 370
" cause of, 447, 490
Instinct, lessons from, 220
" a safe guide, 224
Internal emissions, 361
Intestinal worms, 202
Juke family, the, 108
Labia, the, 73
Labor, 68
Lacing, 90
Law of heredity applied, 126
" of sex, 101
Legalized murder, 233
" vice, 309
Leucorrhoea, 346
Libidinous blood, 290
Licentious worship, 287
Licentiousness, results of, 302
Life, 25
" beginning of, 52
" force, 29
" origin of, 33
" modern modes of, 203
" when it begins, 262
" uterine, 66
Literature, poisonous, 189
Living beings, 25
Love, perverted, 178
Lust, effect upon child, 111
Male organs, 71
" continence, 256
Mammary glands, 70
Marriage, 124, 402
" evils of ill-mated, 131
" effect of late, 132
" experimental, 141
" forbidden, 155
" of cousins, 163
" of criminals, 164
" of paupers, 167
" but not love, 235
" customs of different nations, 125
Marital excesses, 216
" rights, 234
Masturbation, 315, 428
" treatment of, 378
" prevention of, 378
" effects in females, 373
" effects on offspring, 376
" self-helps to cure, 385
Menopause, the, 82
Menorrhagia, 91
Menses, 81
Menstrual period, duration of, 82
Menstruation, 81
" nature of, 83
Mental unchastity, 174
" culture, 313
Milk, influence of upon children, 70
Mind, cause of unbalanced, 129
Mormonism, 148
Monsters, 99
Mock piety, 338
Moderation, 248
Modesty, 488
Mothers, a warning to, 201
" their work, 479
Moral contagion, 459
Moving apparatus, 425
Multiple births, 98
Navel, the, 68
Nervous diseases, 368
" debility, treatment of, 378
Nocturnal emissions, 353
Novel-reading, 486
Nursing, 70
Nutrition, 30
Nutritive apparatus, 425
Nymphae, the, 73
Nymphomania, 301
Objects of life, 423
Obscene books, 187
Obscenity, 462
Oneida community, the, 258
Organized beings, 28
Organization, 28
Ovary, 51
Ovum, 51
" discharge of, 83
" size of, 52
" expulsion of from ovary, 74
" union of the, with the zoosperm, 57
Pangenesis, doctrine of, 103
Paralysis, 369
Parturition, 68
" painless, 68
Passion, inherited, 121
Passions, how excited, 183
Pedestrianism, 40
Pernicious books, influence of, 297
Penis, the, 56, 71
Physical differences in sex, 39
Piles, 350
Pimples, 342
Placenta, 67
Plants, sex of, 37
Pictures, vile, 464
Poisonous literature, 189
Polyandry, 152
Polygamous flowers, 47
Polygamy, 145
" defense of, 148
" exposed, 149
" of great men, 152
Precocity, 77
" sexual, 117
" indications of, 119
Pregnancy, 62
" duration of, 66
" extra-uterine, 97
" indulgence during, 241
Premature development, 78
" decay, 419
Prevention of conception, 250
Priapism, 350
Prostate gland, 72
" " enlargement of the, 349
Prostitution, 400
" in Greece, 287
Pruritis, 374
Puberty, 74
" premature, 75
" influence of diet on, 76
" changes at, 79
" influence of climate on, 75
Pudenda, the, 73
Purifying apparatus, 425
Quacks, 362, 412
Race degeneration, cause of, 436
Religion, help of, 213
Religious novels, 297
" insanity, 371
Reproduction, 31, 424, 476
" elements of, 45
" in polyps, 58
" anatomy of, 71
" curious modes of, 57
" in the honey bee, 58
" in lower animals, 218
Reproductive organs, 71
" functions, 217
" apparatus, 426
" elements, union of, 57
Reptiles, fecundation in, 56
" development in, 60
Respiration in woman, 44
" of the fetus, 67
Results of abortion, 280
Roman emperors, licentiousness of, 288
Satyriasis, 124
Scrotum, the, 71
Secret vice, 428
" " evidences of, 481
" " prevalence of, 480
" " terrible effects of, 480
Self-abuse, 315, 428
" causes of, 321, 487
" effects of, 437
" the signs of, 331
" results of, 347
" treatment of, 378
" not a modern vice, 319
" physical causes of, 329
" how to cure the habit of, 382
Self-control, 311
Self-pollution, 428
Self-murder, 431
Seminal fluid, the, 51, 72
Senility, 420
Senile children, 134
" sexuality, 123
Sentimental books, 485
" young women, 190
" literature, influence of, 296
Sex, 35
" in plants, 37
" in animals, 38
" law of, 101
" of fetus, 102
Sexual differences, 38
" organs of plants, 46
" " of animals, 48
" relations, the, 116
" precocity, 117
" " causes of, 122
" activity, the limit of, 124
Shaker views, 258
Sitz-baths, 404
Sleeping, 393
Social lepers, 146
" evil, the, 284
" " causes of the, 290
" " cure of the, 308
Solitary vice, 315
" " alarming prevalence of, 316
" " unsuspected cause of, 318
Spaying, 115
Spermatozoa, 48
" size of, 50
Spermatorrhoea, 353
Spinal irritation, 369
Sterility, 374
Stimulants the cause of self-abuse, 330
Stricture, 348
Suicide, cause of, 453
"Tarrying," 140
Tea and coffee, 292
" " " bad effects of, 467
Testicles, position of, 48
" wasting of, 352
Temperaments, 166
Thinking apparatus, 425
Thoughts, evil, 465
Throat disease, cause of, 229
Time to marry, 125
Tobacco, 292
" evil effects of, 467
" grave charges against, 185
Twins, 98
Umbilical cord, 67
Unchaste conversation, 179
Unchastity, causes of, 181
" of the ancients, 274
" physical causes of, 201
Unconsidered murders, 260
Uterus, 61
Uterine life, 66
" douche, 93
" disease, 233, 373
" gestation, 62
Urinary diseases, 349
Urethra, the, 72
Vagina, the, 56, 74
Varicocele, 352
Vegetable husbands, 47
Vice legalized, 309
Vicious companions, 484
Vital force, definition of, 29
" organs of man and woman, 43
Vision, dimness of, 369
Vulva, the, 73
Waltz, the, its sensuality, 199
Weak backs, 339
Wine, evil effects of, 467
Wives, on trial, 139
" sale of, among the Russians, 138
Woman, servitude of, 263
" her responsibility, 270
Woman's rights, 264
Women, Indian, 86
" Hebrew, 87
Womb, cancer of the, 374
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