MOTHERS’ MEETINGS, STUDY CLUBS AND BOOKS.
The Awakening Along New Lines.—A Better Brand of
Mothers.—Books that Will Help Along This Line.—Mothers’
Clubs as Factors.—Their Need in Cities, Villages, and Rural
Communities.—A Rich Mine.
A book like this cannot enter into close details, or give minute
directions; hence we have deemed it advisable to append a list of books
and pamphlets which should be in every mother’s library. Were every young
wife to make a painstaking study of books like these with the fixed
intent of preparing herself for motherhood, what a millennial day would
dawn for the race.
The following list (to which have been added a few others) I have copied
from the library of a club of mothers, who have interested themselves
in gathering the best they could find in the line of instruction and
helpfulness to a wife and mother. This list may be further increased by
many other helpful books, but serves as a suggestive list for those who
are not conversant with such literature:
The Children of The Future, $1.00
Nora Archibald Smith.
What is Worth While? .35
Anna Robertson Brown.
Power Through Repose, 1.00
Anna Payson Call.
The Republic of Childhood, (3 vols.) 3.00
Kate Douglass Wiggin.
A Mother’s Ideals, 1.50
Andrea Hofer Proudfoot.
A Study of Child Nature, 1.00
Elizabeth Harrison.
Child Culture, .30
Hannah Whitall Smith.
The Home Training of Children, .50
J. C. Fernauld.
Literary Landmarks, 1.25
Mary E. Burt.
Gentle Measures, 1.25
Jacob Abbott.
Mothers the True Reformers, .10
Mrs. W. L. W. Miller.
A Treatise on Prayer, .75
Rev. Edward Bickersteith.
Home Making, 1.00
Loving My Neighbor, .35
The Golden Gate of Prayer, .75
Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D.
The Ministry of Intercession, .75
Rev. Andrew Murray.
Stepping Heavenward, .75
Mrs. E. Prentiss.
With God in The World, 1.00
Chas. H. Brent.
The Kingship of Self Control, .30
Wm. George Jordan.
From Girlhood to Motherhood, .30
Mary Lowe Dickinson.
Seed Thoughts for Mothers, .35
Mrs. Minnie E. Paul.
Bringing up Boys, .50
Kate Upson Clark.
What a Young Boy Ought to Know, 1.00
What a Young Man Ought to Know, 1.00
What a Young Husband Ought to Know, 1.00
What a Man of Forty-five Ought to Know, 1.00
Sylvanus Stall, D. D.
What a Young Girl Ought to Know, 1.00
What a Young Woman Ought to Know, 1.00
Mrs. Mary Wood-Allen, M. D.
Children, Their Models and Critics, .75
Auretta R. Aldrich.
Children’s Rights, 1.00
Kate Douglass Wiggins.
Great Books as Life Teachers, 1.50
Newell Dwight Hillis.
Letters to Mothers, 1.50
Susan E. Blow.
Character, .75
Samuel Smiles.
A Holy Temple, .05
Rev. F. B. Meyer.
A Song of Life, 1.25
Life and Love, 1.25
Margaret Warner Morley.
Hints on Child Training, 1.25
H. Clay Trumbull, D. D.
Bits of Talks about Home Matters, 1.00
H. H.
The Study of Children, 1.00
Francis Warner.
The Evening and The Morning, 1.00
Rev. Armstrong Black.
Christian Nurture, 1.50
Horace Bushnell, D. D.
The Development of the Child, 1.25
Care of the Child in Health, 1.25
Nathan Oppenheim, M. D.
The Boy Problem, .75
Wm. Byron Forbush.
Of Making One’s Self Beautiful, .50
Wm. C. Gannett.
Imago Christi, 1.50
Rev. Jas. Stalker, D. D.
Home Thoughts, 1.50
C.
Maternal Responsibilities, .10
E. F. A. Drake, M. D.
From A Child’s Standpoint, 1.00
Florence Hull Winterburn.
Education, 1.00
Herbert Spencer.
_Any of these books can be ordered through the Vir Publishing Company._
A score of copies of Mary Wood-Allen’s booklets have been sold among
the members, and copies of _The American Mother_, _The Mothers’
Journal_, and _Trained Motherhood_ are taken. This club meets once a
month, and papers are read by the members, or by some invited guest.
Physicians and ministers, school-teachers who have had success along
certain lines; kindergartners, and lawyers have spoken to this company
of women. Each year a printed program is issued, and the meetings are
open to all who wish to attend, whether members or not. The discussions
which have followed the papers, have been interesting and profitable
in the extreme. One or two are appointed to open the discussion, and
questions are freely asked. This club is only three years old, but it
would be impossible to measure its influence for good, and its suggestive
helpfulness in the community. Would that there were a similar society of
women in every city in our land. Yea, more, in every village and rural
community. Literary clubs and classes have multiplied, all over our land,
_ad infinitum_; and is it not time that mothers’ classes were more common
and popular? Depend upon it, more pleasure and profit can be gotten out
of such a class, than from any other proposed line of study. Why? Because
it goes to the very root of things, and comes so near to the hearts of
all that it can but create interest.
Woman has done much in literary study and improvement, but here is a mine
that has not been worked as it should have been; and depend upon it, no
richer field can be found in all the realm of art, science or literature.
THE END.
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Maternity Without Suffering
BY MRS. EMMA F. A. DRAKE, M. D.
Condensed Table of Contents
HEALTHFULNESS OF CHILD-BEARING—Wrong notion about child-bearing
corrected—Dangerous subterfuges—Contrast between willing
and unwilling mothers—Ennobling maternity—Causes of painful
parturition—Suggestions for proper exercise—Errors in
diet—A proper regimen—A contributing cause to pain—Is
painless parturition possible?—Opinions of scientists
and physicians—Reasons why some women have painless
child-bearing—The author’s experience as a physician—The
conditions necessary for painless maternity—Danger of
extreme methods—Effects of bad advisers—Contributing
factors of antenatal infanticide—Nothing to dread in normal
childbirth—Extreme methods not necessary.
THE CRIME OF PRENATAL MURDER—The day of reckoning—Words
of warning—The mother’s accomplice—How often to
have children—Dangerous practices—The necessity of
knowledge—Importance of a proper state of mind during
pregnancy—How to make one’s life noble—The first steps in
meddlesome midwifery.
THE NECESSARY PREPARATION FOR MOTHERHOOD—Exercise to be
zealously sought—Home duties and domestic science—The
best exercise—Some aids to physical development—Dress
during pregnancy—The bath—Care of breasts and
abdomen—Choice of physician and nurse—The husband’s
part—Ailments of pregnancy—Troublesome ills—Morning
sickness—Heartburn—Constipation—The prevention and treatment of
piles—Other ills—Causes of nervous apprehension—Other mental
conditions—Birthmarks—Threatened miscarriage.
HEREDITY, PREDISPOSITION AND ENVIRONMENT—The mother’s influence
on the destiny of her child—A profitable study—What a mother
can do for her children—Reasons why later children are stronger
and brighter.
THE LYING-IN CHAMBER—The room—The bed—The mother’s dress—The
articles necessary—After the advent of the baby—Necessity
of knowledge—The disturbing things—Signs of pregnancy and
the birth—The rational or presumptive signs—The time in
reckoning—The duration of pregnancy—Exceptional cases—The
disturbing stage of labor—Valuable suggestions—Directions for
the nurse—Propriety of anæsthetics—Baby’s wardrobe—Requisite
articles—Directions for their making—Baby’s first trunk—First
toilet—Baby’s first dressing—Ensuring a night’s rest—The
cradle—Hours of eating and sleeping—Proper kind of food.
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“What a Young Girl Ought to Know.”
BY MRS. MARY WOOD-ALLEN, M. D.
Condensed Table of Contents
PART I
The origin of life—One plan in all forms of life—How plants
grow from the seed—They feed on the soil, grow and mature—How
the plant reproduces itself—The flower, the pollen, the pod,
the seed—The office of bees and insects in fertilization.
PART II
Fishes and their young—The parent fishes and the baby
fishes—The seeds of plants and eggs of fishes, birds and
animals—How fishes never know their baby offspring—Warm blooded
animals—Lessons from birds—Their nests, eggs and little ones.
PART III
Animals and their young—The place which God has prepared for
their young—Beginning their independent life—Human babies the
most helpless and dependent of all creatures—The relations of
parent and child—The child a part of each parent—Heredity and
its lessons.
PART IV
The value of good health—The care of the body—The body a temple
to be kept holy—Girls should receive their instruction from
their mothers—The body the garment which the soul wears—Effects
of thoughts upon life and character—Value of good companions,
good books and good influences—What it is to become a woman.
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“What a Young Girl Ought to Know.”
WHAT EMINENT PEOPLE SAY
Francis E. Willard, LL.D.
“I do earnestly hope that this book, founded on a strictly
scientific but not forgetting a strong ethical basis, may be
well known and widely read by the dear girls in their teens and
the young women in their homes.”
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Grannis
“These facts ought to be judiciously brought to the
intelligence of every child whenever it asks questions
concerning its own origin.”
Mrs. Harriet Lincoln Coolidge
“It is a book that mothers and daughters ought to own.”
Mrs. Katharine L. Stevenson
“The book is strong, direct, pure, as healthy as a breeze from
the mountain-top.”
Mrs. Isabelle MacDonald Alden, “Pansy”
“It is just the book needed to teach what most people do not
know how to teach, being scientific, simple and plain-spoken,
yet delicate.”
Miss Grace H. Dodge
“I know of no one who writes or speaks on these great subjects
with more womanly touch than Mrs. Wood-Allen, nor with deeper
reverence. When I listen to her I feel that she has been
inspired by a Higher Power.”
Ira D. Sankey
“Every mother in the land that has a daughter should secure for
her a copy of ‘What a Young Girl Ought to Know.’ It will save
the world untold sorrow.”
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“What a Young Woman Ought to Know.”
BY MRS. MARY WOOD-ALLEN, M.D.
Condensed Table of Contents
PART I
CHILDHOOD AND GROWTH
Woman’s worth—Importance of care of the body—How to obtain
health—Waste and repair—Questions of food—Importance of rest in
sleep—The office and importance of correct breathing—Injuries
from tight clothing—Physical culture—Exercise and
recreation—The value of the bath.
PART II
WOMANHOOD
The endowment of new powers—The conferring of life—Brain
building and character formation—Soul and self—Special
physiology—Woman’s special bodily endowments—The crisis
in the girl’s life—Ovulation and menstruation—Their
significance—Causes and cures of disturbed physical
conditions—Painful periods and displacements—Special care of
health at special times—Many healthful suggestions suited
to the physical needs of young women—Secret vice and its
consequences—The relation of pure young women to young
men—Friendships.
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.
Condensed Table of Contents
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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“What a Woman of Forty-five Ought to Know”
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.
Condensed Table of Contents
PART I
God’s purpose in endowing plants, animals and man with
reproductive power—The question of the origin of life a natural
and proper one—Difference between creating and making—How God
now creates or reproduces the flowers, insects, fishes and
animals—The mamma and papa plants and the baby plants—The mamma
and papa nature in the stalk of corn—The two natures united
in the same flower—Separated in other plants—The office of
the wind and insects in fertilizing the flowers—The mamma and
papa natures united in the same oyster—The life of the baby
oyster—The two natures separated in the fishes—The eggs and
the baby fishes—How seeds are made to grow and how eggs are
hatched—The beautiful lives of parent birds—The bird’s nest,
the eggs and the baby birds—Why the eggs of animals may not be
exposed in a nest—The nest which God has prepared for them—The
hatching of the egg or the birth of the animal—The creation of
Adam and Eve—God created man with power similar to his creative
power—The purity of parentage.
PART II
The manner in which the reproductive organs are injured in
boys by abuse—Comparative anatomy, or points of resemblance
between bodies of birds, animals and man—Man the only animal
with a perfect hand—With the hand he constructs, builds and
blesses—With the hand he smites, slays and injures others, and
degrades himself.
PART III
The consequences in boys of the abuse of the reproductive
organs—Need of proper information—The moral effects first to
manifest themselves—How secret sin affects the character of
boys—Effects upon the body and the nerves—Effects upon the
brain and mind—The physical effects that follow.
PARTS IV and V
How boys may preserve their bodies in purity and strength—Our
duty to aid others to avoid pernicious habits, and to retain or
regain their purity and strength.
PARTS VI and VII
How purity and strength may be measurably regained—The age
of adolescence or puberty and its attendant changes—Its
significance and its dangers.
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“What a Young Boy Ought to Know”
For Boys under Sixteen Years of Age
WHAT EMINENT PEOPLE SAY
Theodore L. Cuyler, D.D.
“‘What a Young Boy Ought to Know’ ought to be in every home
where there is a boy.”
Lady Henry Somerset
“Calculated to do an immense amount of good. I sincerely hope
it may find its way to many homes.”
Joseph Cook, D.D., LL.D.
“It is everywhere suggestive, inspiring and strategic in a
degree, as I think, not hitherto matched in literature of its
class.”
Charles L. Thompson, D.D.
“Why was not this book written centuries ago?”
Anthony Comstock
“It lifts the mind and thoughts upon a high and lofty plane
upon delicate subjects.”
Edward W. Bok
“It has appealed to me in a way which no other book of its kind
has.”
Bishop John H. Vincent, D.D., LL.D.
“You have handled with great delicacy and wisdom an exceedingly
difficult subject.”
John Willis Baer
“I feel confident that it can do great good, and I mean that my
boys shall have the contents placed before them.”
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, LL.D.
“Full of physiological truths, which all children ought to
know, at a proper age; will be read by boys without awakening a
prurient thought.”
Josiah Strong, D.D.
“A foolish and culpable silence on the part of most parents
leaves their children to learn, too often from vicious
companions, sacred truth in an unhallowed way.”
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“What a Young Man Ought to Know.”
BY SYLVANUS STALL, D. D.
Condensed Table of Contents
STRENGTH
The value of physical strength—The weak man
handicapped—Threefold nature of man—Relation of the physical,
intellectual and moral—Impair one, you injure all—The physical
foundation—Man’s strong sexual nature—Sexuality strongly
marked in all great men—Importance of manly mastery of sexual
nature—Personal purity—Only one moral standard for men and
women.
WEAKNESS
Inherited weakness—How overcome—Acquired weakness—How
produced—The effects of secret vice—What should be done—Losses
in sleep—When to consult a physician—Danger from quacks
and charlatans—What are normal and abnormal losses—Medical
authorities quoted—Subject illustrated—Important directions.
SOCIAL VICE
Alarming ignorance concerning the diseases which accompany
vice—Why physicians do not acquaint their patients with the
nature of these diseases—The prevalence—All forms of venereal
diseases leave terrible results—Character and consequences
of gonorrhœa—Later complications—Chordee, stricture,
blindness, etc.—How healthy brides become early and permanent
invalids—Chancroid and chancre—The primary, secondary and
tertiary forms of syphilis—The beginning, progress and end—Can
it ever be cured—May the man ever marry—Effects upon wife and
children.
THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS
Their purpose and prostitution—Marriage a great
blessing—Difference between creation and procreation—All life
from the seed or the egg—The reproduction of plants, fishes,
birds and animals contrasted—An interesting study.
MAN’S RELATION TO WOMAN
Importance of a right relation to women—The nature of
marriage—The friends and foes of marriage—Who should not
marry—The selection of a wife—Some general rules—Importance of
great caution—Causes of unhappiness in married life—Early and
late marriages.
HINDRANCES AND HELPS
The choice of companions, books, pictures, amusements,
recreations—Liquors and tobacco—Self-mastery—Right aim in
life—Industry, early rising—The influence of an ennobling
affection—Education—The Sabbath, the Church and the Bible.
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“What a Young Man Ought to Know.”
What Eminent People Say:
Francis E. Clark, D. D.
“Of exceeding value to every youth just entering upon manhood.
It is written reverently but very plainly, and I believe will
save a multitude of young men from evils unspeakable.”
John Clifford, D. D.
“One of the best books for dawning manhood that has fallen
into my hands. It goes to the roots of human living. It is
thoroughly manly. Dr. Stall has laid the rising generation
under an immense obligation.”
J. Wilbur Chapman, D. D.
“I bear willing testimony that I believe this book ought to be
in the hands of every young man in this country.”
Paul F. Munde, M. D., LL. D.
Professor of Gynæcology in the New York Polyclinic and at Dartmouth
College, says:
“I most heartily commend not only the principle but the
execution of what it aims to teach.”
Eugene H. Porter, M. D., LL. D.
President of the Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York;
Professor Materia Medica, New York Homeopathic Medical College, etc.,
says:
“We should especially commend the volume for its reliability in
statement, and, as a medical man, I highly indorse the medical
teachings of the book. It is trustworthy and sound. It is a
work which should be in the hands of every young man.”
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“What a Young Husband Ought to Know.”
BY SYLVANUS STALL, D. D.
Condensed Table of Contents
PART I
WHAT HE OUGHT TO KNOW CONCERNING HIMSELF
The true foundation for happiness in married life—Physical,
intellectual and sexual differences between men and women—Each
complemental to the other, and complete only when mated—The
three theories regarding coition—The correct theory—The
physical cost of procreation—Illustrated in insects, animals
and man—What is excess—Effects of marital continence—The
husband’s duty to his wife—Physical defects and deficiencies of
husband or wife—Misery entailed by vice—Effects upon wife—Upon
children—Purity and fidelity.
PART II
WHAT HE OUGHT TO KNOW CONCERNING HIS WIFE
I THE BRIDE
Marriage the most trying event in a woman’s life—Earliest
mistake which most young husbands make—Few intelligent
guardians of their brides—Threefold classification of
women—Causes of differences.
II THE WIFE
Her manifold duties as wife, mother and housekeeper—God has
fitted her for her sphere—The mother-nature—Barrenness and
sterility—Physical, social, intellectual and moral benefits
of motherhood and fatherhood—Aversion and evasion—God’s
purpose in marriage—Limitation of offspring—Marital excess—The
wrongs which wives suffer because of ignorant and unthinking
husbands—Repellant periods in the life of woman.
III THE MOTHER
Purposed and prepared parenthood—Conception—The marvels
of fœtal life and growth—Changes during the months of
gestation—The husband’s duty to wife and offspring—What
the wife has a right to expect before and during
confinement—Ignorant, unthinking and unsympathetic husbands—The
child in the home—Real life and genuine happiness—The mother
while nursing—Protection of child from impure nurses.
PART III
WHAT HE OUGHT TO KNOW CONCERNING HIS CHILDREN
Heredity—Prenatal influences—Physical conditions prior to
and at conception—Stirpiculture—Essentials of seed, soil
and care—“Longings,” markings, etc.—Can sex of offspring be
governed—Cause of idiocy—Blindness, etc.—The right to be
well-born—Parental discipline during first two years—Duties
during childhood—Nursery influences—Honest answers to honest
inquiries—How to secure purity in thought and life of children.
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WHAT EMINENT PEOPLE SAY
Chas. M. Sheldon, D. D.
“I believe the book will do great good, and I hope its message
may be used for the bettering of the homes of the world.”
Rev. F. B. Meyer, B. A.
“I greatly commend this series of manuals, which are written
lucidly and purely, and will afford the necessary information
without pandering to unholy and sensual passion.”
Hon. S. M. Jones
“I am glad to say that my study of it indicates that you have
been led by a pure love for your kind to write one of the most
helpful and valuable books that it has been my privilege to see
in many days.”
Bishop John H. Vincent, D. D., LL. D.
“Straightforward, clean, kind, clear and convincing. A copy
ought to go with every marriage certificate.”
Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis
“It is a wholesome and helpful contribution to a most difficult
subject, and its reading will help to make the American home
happier and more safely guarded.”
Rev. A. C. Dixon, D. D.
“I take pleasure in commending it to husbands, young and old.
The vice of ignorance on these delicate but important subjects
has done much to increase the business of divorce courts and
wreck homes.”
Amos R. Wells
“The race would be infinitely stronger in body and soul if all
husbands would obtain this book and follow its precepts.”
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“What a Man of Forty-five Ought to Know.”
BY SYLVANUS STALL, D. D.
Condensed Table of Contents
PART I
WHAT HE OUGHT TO KNOW CONCERNING HIMSELF
Prevalent ignorance concerning physical changes in men
of middle-life—Sad results of such ignorance—Reasons for
change—Evidences of these changes—Husband and wife constitute
a reproductive unit—The two natures responsive in activity
and repose—Somewhat similar changes in both—The age at which
climacteric or “change of life” occurs in men—Climacteric and
adolescence contrasted—The testimony of medical men to the
fact—Only young men need the testimonials of authorities—Old
men know it—Compensations which follow the sexual hush—Physical
and mental effects—Changes more gradual than in women—Many men
intellectually at their best after sexual hush—To them time
and experience open their richest treasures—Moderation in all
things enjoined—Sexual moderation emphasized—Virility, how
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