A WOMAN IS AS YOUNG AS SHE WANTS TO BE
Have you ever thought why it is that some women are as young at forty as
others are at twenty-four? And I mean young not frivolous! It is every
woman's duty to keep young as long as possible, but, unfortunately, she
does not always know the best way to live up to that duty. Keeping young
means keeping your body in a perfectly healthy condition and your mind
in harmony. With attention to certain laws a woman can detract ten years
from her age. She can do this by treating herself as a friend and not as
a slave. Take ten minutes and think how you could improve yourself by a
little effort. Perhaps some of these suggestions will help you.
Everyone needs exercise. Just what sort depends upon the occupation of
the individual. A woman doing housework exercises most of her muscles
during the day, and if she makes pleasure, and not drudgery out of her
work, this exercise is very beneficial. It is a pleasure to be able to
accomplish so much, but the housework is not sufficient exercise. This
woman needs exercise for her mind and for her beauty-loving soul. In her
spare time she should lie under the trees and enjoy nature or a good
book, or she should go to some gathering where she will meet those who
will refresh her intellectually. Keep the mind open to all the
impressions of nature. Love the open air. Fresh air is not a fad, it is
a necessity if one would keep young. Occasionally read a book of travel
or a biography of some well-known person. Keep mentally alert. An
intellectual back number adds years to her seeming age. Nothing makes
for youth as a young mind, save perhaps a young heart.
If a woman wishes to retain her attractiveness and not grow dull and
uninteresting, she must be interested in the outside world. Make it a
point to go somewhere every day. If you cannot do anything else, put the
baby in the cart and walk a few blocks. Do not say you are too busy. It
is necessary for your health and you will find a few minutes' outing
will give you renewed energies and help you to see the silver lining.
If possible go to social affairs where you meet people. Invite others to
your home but do not tire yourself entertaining them. People who are
boarding enjoy a simple home-cooked meal. It is the "homey" air they
enjoy and not elaborate decorations or menu.
A woman in an office needs different exercise. She needs to do something
that will stretch and strengthen the tired muscles. She also needs
plenty of fresh air. A brisk walk is one of the best exercises for her.
Walk part of the way to the office, if possible, and keep your eyes open
for interesting things you pass. Use your imagination in guessing the
life story of those you meet. Forget yourself by becoming interested in
others, and you will be surprised at the effect upon your outlook on
life. It is not work that makes the business girl grow old and careworn
as much as it is her inability to forget her work during her play or
rest time. A business man takes an occasional day off and goes hunting
or fishing, but the business girl seldom can afford the little trips
that would serve to break the monotony of work. But every day brings its
opportunities for little pleasures that are available. Remember it is
the small things of life that make up its enjoyment. Once in a while at
noon go to some especially nice lunch room where you will see well
dressed women, where the service is faultless and every mouthful and
every moment enjoyable. You will come away filled with such a sense of
well-being that you will be able to accomplish twice as much in the way
of work. Many business girls do not entertain themselves well enough.
They become so imbued with the spirit of economy that they deny
themselves the little pleasures that would make life enjoyable. This
reacts upon their work and ability. These people who continually stint
themselves never achieve great success. They repress themselves so much
that they quell all their best impulses. They never expand.
Learn self-control. Anger is a rapid wrinkle bringer. The energy that is
wasted in useless worry and tirade against circumstances might be
conserved and diverted into other channels that would bring you abundant
reward, financially as well as in other ways. Avoid worry, hurry and
getting flustered. Plan your work in the morning, then take the little
interruptions coolly and quietly. You will not be half so tired at the
end of the day as you would be otherwise. Be temperate. Moderation does
not refer only to the stomach. Overdoing in any way makes for premature
age.
Do not let yourself get sluggish and indifferent. Here is where the
benefits of massage, physical culture and a vital interest in life come
in. Youth is happiness! If you would be young, radiate happiness. Talk
happiness not ill-health. One certain symptom of advancing age is the
desire to talk about ill-health. Discussing operations you have
undergone or sickness you have experienced always attracts attention to
your age. Children seldom talk about ill-health. An illness once
conquered is forgotten. Another thing, do not whine. The American women
are noted for their unpleasant voices, which often are too high pitched,
showing lack of control. Cultivate a low, well-modulated voice. Recently
I met a young woman who had a deformed body and a plain face, but I
immediately was attracted to her because she had the most beautiful
speaking voice it ever was my privilege to hear.
As we age in years we are liable to grow careless in our dress, to
select colors and styles that are not very becoming; we do not take as
much pains with our hair, our nails or our shoes as we should. We have
allowed age to manifest itself in the lack of care of the little things.
Finally, if your work does not bring you happiness, you are in the wrong
place and the sooner you find the right place the better for you. It is
impossible to take a race horse and expect to make him a good plow
horse. We only would spoil the one without succeeding in obtaining the
other. There is a right place for everyone and each one is adapted to
certain things and in order to accomplish the most we must "find
ourselves."
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INDEX
Abortions, 89
Accidental, 90
Criminal, 91
Prevalence, 92, 112
Sterility following, 95
Advertisements, misleading, 65
Advertising physicians, 173
After-birth, 83
Amenorrhoea, 40
Anatomy of generative organs, 11
Anus, 16
Atrophy of generative organs, 30
Backache, displacement causing, 36
Fake advertisements concerning, 67
Gonorrhoea causing, 61
Lumbago, rheumatism, strain, 67
Bag of waters, 86
Birth canal, 13
Black plagues, see Gonorrhoea and Syphilis
Causing tumors, 42
Bladder, openings into, 17
Position in relation to womb, 11
Blindness, due to gonorrhoea, 59
Infection, prevalence of in new born, 60
Blue baby, 87
Blues, 195
Born with caul or veil, 86
Boys, need of instruction, 178
Why boys go astray, 171
Breasts, after menopause, in pregnancy, 19
At puberty, 24
Cancer, carcinoma, 43
Cathartics, 51
Cavity of pelvis, 11
Cavity of womb, openings into, 11, 12
Change of life, see Menopause
Child bearing period, 23
Childless homes, 103
Chlorosis, 40
Circumcision in girls, 41
Clandestine engagements, 157
Clap, see Gonorrhoea.
Clitoris, hooded, 17
Causing nervousness and immorality, 41
Coitus, 74
Conception, 74
Prevention of, 109
Congestion from tight clothing, 37
Constipation, 47
Caused by retroversion, 34, 49
Causes, 48
Cord, 83
Cramps during menopause, 30
Development of life, 81
Diseases of female organs, 33
Influence on appearance, 28
Venereal diseases, 56
Displacements, causes of, 33
Backward, constipation caused by, 34
Bladder, pressure on, 35
Downward, side, 37
Forward, 36
Hemorrhoids caused by, 34
Menstruation, relation to, 34
Treatment, 35
Divorce, 115
Black plagues as a factor, 117
Sterility as a factor, 118
Douche, for cleanliness, at close of period, 21
In irritation of vagina, 40
Drug habit, from patent medicines, 69
In constipation, 51
Dry labor, 86
Dysmenorrhoea, 39
Education, lack of for girls, 77
Egg, see Ovum.
Embryo, 82
Embryology, 81
Epilepsy due to syphilis, 101
Excesses
Cause of premature old age, 76
Causing congestion, 38
During early married life, 74
Exercise
For business woman, 205
For home woman, 203
External generative organs, description, 16
Care, 20
Fake advice, 65
Fallopian tubes, description, position, 14
Effect of gonorrhoea on, 57
Removal, effect of, sterility from removal, 58
Tumors of, 42
Father's duty to son, 181
Fear, needless, 106
Fertilization of ovum, 74, 81
Flirtations and their results, 157
Foetal movements, 84
Foetus, 82
Gonorrhoea
Effect on female organs, 57
Persistence of in later years, 57
Prevalence of, 56
Prevention of in youth, 63
Symptoms, 61
Green sickness, 40
Happiness necessary, 208
Headache, from constipation, 48
From displacements, 37
Powders, 69
Heart valves of baby, 87
Hemorrhage in cancer, 43
Hemorrhoids, 47
Bleeding, external, internal, pain from, 49
From constipation, 48
Retrodisplacements causing, 34
Treatment, 49
Herb remedies as drugs, 69
Heredity, inherited tendency to disease, 99
Tuberculosis, syphilis, 100
Home-making a study, 78
Homes, childless, 103
Girls not interested in parents' home, 135
Hot flashes during menopause, 30
Hymen, 18
Not injured by douche, 40
Opening in, 41
Unruptured in pregnancy, 154
Illegitimacy, 152
Immorality, due to low wages, effects of, 149
Among children, in country districts, in school, 123
Due to hooded clitoris, 41
Indigestion, 52
Inflammation causing dysmenorrhoea, 39
Inherited syphilis, 62
Intercourse, 75
Insemination, 74
Jealousy, 196
Kiss conveying contagion, 61
Knee chest position, 37
For constipation and hemorrhoids, 49
Labia majora and minora, 17
Labor, dry, 86
Duration of, 87
Pains, cause of, 85
Premature, 89
Lanugo, 84
Law regarding prevention of pregnancy, 109
Laxatives, 51
Leucorrhoea, 38
In young girls, 40
Life feeling, 84
Love, misunderstood, 132
Lumbago, backache in, 67
Lungs of newborn child, 87
Maidenhead, see Hymen.
Malignant tumor, 43
Marriage, education necessary for, 72
Fake marriages used to obtain white slaves, 168
False promises leading to immorality, 151
For convenience, natural, 116
Laws not adequate, 115
Relation, 71
Science of, successful and otherwise, 71
Social reasons for, 103
Massage, for constipation, 51
Mating, 73
Meatus urinarius, 17
Medical, fake advertisements, 67
Medicine, doubtful results from, 68
Patent, 45
Membrane, 86
Menstruation, absence of, 40
Bathing during, 27
Care during, 26
Color, odor, 29
Composition of flow, 28
Deficiency of, 40
Description of, 23
Duration of, frequency, 23, 28
Lassitude during, 27
Pain during, 27, 39
Phenomena common to, 27
Profuse flow, 28
Quantity, time between periods, 29
Sign of approach of period, 25
Source of flow, 16
Menopause, age, 29
Bowels in, 21
Breasts after, 31
Cancer at, 43
Care during, symptoms of approach, 30
Changes in body, nervous system, 30
Duration, diet, 31
End of child-bearing period, 23
Hot flashes during, necessity for examination, 30
Relaxation, rest, worry during, 31
Miscarriage, 89
Modesty, false, 134
Motherhood, accidental, a science, preparation for, 77
Fear regarding, 106
Natural desire of all women, 104
Mucous patches in syphilis, 61
Nerve trouble, due to syphilis, 62
Nervousness
A lack of control, 195
Due to hooded clitoris, 41
Overcoming, 197
Relation to intercourse, 76
Neuralgia, backache, 67
Causing dysmenorrhoea, 39
Ovary, description, function, position, 14
Tumor, see Tumor.
Oviduct, see Fallopian tube, 14
Ovum, 14
Relation to menstruation, 29
Division into portions, growth, 81
Passage from ovary to uterus, impregnation, 81
Size, 82
Passion or sex sense, 73
Parents' duty to daughters, 167
To sons, 171
Patent medicine, 45
Of doubtful benefit, 68
Pelvis, 11
Deformed in abortions, 91
Peritoneum, 16
Peritonitis, 16
From displacement and inflammation of womb, 37
From gonorrhoea, 58
From appendicitis, 59
Perineum, 18
Tearing during labor, 19, 87
Physiology of female organs, 11
Piles, see Hemorrhoids.
Placenta, 83
Position of foetus in utero, 85
Pregnancy, absence of menstruation, 40
Among unmarried girls, 151
Fertilization before, 74
Prevention of, 109
Premature birth, labor, 89
Prostitution, result of, 155
Puberty, 23
Change in nervous system, 24
Hygiene during, school work during, 24
Premonitory symptoms, signs of approach, 24
Preparatory information, necessity for, 24
Public cup, 61
Pus tubes, see Fallopian tubes.
Race improvement, 111
Race suicide, education in relation to, 104
Not increased by knowledge of means of prevention, 113
Rectum, position in relation to womb, 11
In retrodisplacement, 34
Regulation of number of children, 111
Relaxation, 199
Rest, 200
Rheumatism, backache, 67
Dysmenorrhoea due to, 39
Sac, 85
Sanitary pads, 26
Self-abuse, 137
Hooded clitoris as a cause, 139
Mental, 139
Nervous system injured, 138
Treatment, 139
Self-confidence, 145
Self-control, 206
Semen, 74
Sex, education needed regarding, 72, 121
Fundamental end of, over-indulgence, 74
Instinct, 73
Instruction for children, 183
Organs formed fourth month, 83
Skin disease due to syphilis, 101
Sleep, sleeplessness, treatment, 200
Spermatozoon, 74
Death due to disease, 107
Union with ovum, 81
Size, 82
Sterility
After one birth, 108
Due to abortions, 95
Due to gonorrhoea, 58
Due to indiscretions, in male, 107
Stomach trouble due to syphilis, 62
Syphilis, 61
Causing abortions, 90
Causing epilepsy, brain and skin lesions, 101
Contracted from wet nurse, 62
Conveyed by kiss, by public cup, 61
Inherited, 62, 100
Late symptoms, 62
Prevention in youth, treatment, 63
Tears of perineum, 19
Necessity for repair, 30
Relation to cancer, 43
Teas, laxative, 51
Tomboys, 133
Toxines from constipation, 48
Tubes, see Fallopian tubes.
Tumor, abdominal, caused by black plagues, 42
Absorption of, removal, 42
Causing dysmenorrhoea, 39
Hemorrhoidal, 34
Malignant, 43
Phantom, 43
Symptoms of, hemorrhage, pain in, 42
Ulcers in syphilis, 62
Umbilical cord, 83
Urethra, 17
Urination, frequent, caused by displacement, 35
Uterus, see Womb.
Vagina, description of, 13
Discharge from, 38
Infection from use of public towels, 60
Irritation of, 40
Orifice of, 17
Vein of cord, 83
Vernix caseosa, 85
Venereal diseases, 56
Vibrator for constipation, 51
Wet nurse in syphilis, 62
Womb, attachment, 13
Cancer of, 43
Congestion from tight clothing, 37
Contraction of mouth, 39
Inflammation from displacements, 37
Position, size, structure, shape, 11
Over work causing congestion, 38
Wild oats, sown by girls, 150
White slavery, 163
Women in business, 189
Worry, an abuse, 143
Youth, obtainable, 203
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