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CHAPTER III.
HEALTH OF THE YOUNG WIFE.
Health insures happiness.-Be ambitious for
health. The scarcity of perfectly healthy
women. Fashion to the Rescue. The boon
of health. Necessity of ventilation and fresh
air. Duties to the home.-The greatness of
woman's sphere.—In the society drift.—The
extreme of wholly avoiding society.-Keeping
in the middle of the road.-Pleasures and rec-
reations taken together.-Taking time to
keep young.-Mistakes which some husbands
make.-Wrecks at the beginning of married
life,
CHAPTER IV.
THE CHOICE OF A HUSBAND.
47-55
Higher standards are being set up in the choice
of a husband. Should be worthy of both love
and respect.-Love likely to idealize the man.
-The real characteristics necessary.-Defi-
ciencies in character not to be supplied after
marriage. The right to demand purity.-
Young men who "sow wild oats."-Impor-
tance of good health.-Weaknesses and
diseases which descend from parents to chil-
dren. The parents' part in aiding to a wise
choice. The value of the physician's counsel.
-One capable of supporting wife and chil
dren.-A dutiful son makes a good husband.
Essential requisites enumerated. — The
father reproduced in his children.—The
equivalents which the wife should bring to
her husband,
57-64
CHAPTER V.
WHAT SHALL A YOUNG WIFE EXPECT TO BE
TO HER HUSBAND?
The young wife should seek to be her husband's
equal, but not his counterpart.-The recog-
nized centre of the home.-Woman's true
greatness. Man's helpmeet. Mrs. Glad-
stone's part in her husband's greatness.-
Should attract her husband from the club to
the home. Continuing to be attractive in
dress and manners.—Should accept both wife-
hood and motherhood.-Should keep pace
with his mental growth.-Guarding against
improper use of literary clubs, reading circles,
etc.-Solomon's picture of the model young
wife.-A converted heathen's estimate of his
Christian wife,
CHAPTER VI.
65-72
TROUSSEAU AND WEDDING PRESENTS.
Husband and wife ruined before their "crane
is hung."-The foolish and ruinous display at
weddings. An illustration given.-How wed-
ding presents lead to debt and unhappiness.-
Living does not need much machinery.-
Mistake of copying after people of large
wealth.-Wise choice of furniture. The best
adornments for the home.-The trousseaux of
our foremothers.-The need of simplicity.-
Artificialities that make a veil between our
souls and God,
73-78
CHAPTER VII.
THE MARITAL RELATIONS.
The subject approached with reluctance.-The
marital state should be the most sacred of
sanctuaries.-Wrongly interpreted it is the
abode of darkness and sin.-Its influence for
good or evil upon character.-Responsibility
of mothers for the unhappy lives of their
daughters. Commercial marriages. — Mar-
riage as it should be.—The husband's danger
from "aggressiveness."-The wife should not
provoke the wrongs she suffers.-Marital
modesty. Parenthood the justification of the
marital act. Reproduction the primal pur-
pose. Harmony of purpose and life.-Love's
highest plane.-The value of continence.-
The right and wrong of marriage.—The re-
lation during gestation.-Effects of relation
during gestation illustrated. The wrong-
doings of good men.-The fruits of ignorance.
-The better day coming,
CHAPTER VIII.
79-96
PREPARATION FOR MOTHERHOOD.
Motherhood the glory of womanhood.-Ma-
ternity natural and productive of health.-
Prevalence of knowledge of methods used to
prevent conception. Mothers should prepare
their daughters for maternity.-Motherhood
the sanction for wifehood.-Effect of fixed
habits of mother upon offspring.-Adjustment
of clothing to expectant motherhood.-Impor-
tance of proper exercise.-The sitz bath.-
Effects of environment upon the unborn.-
Why Italian children resemble the madonnas.
-The child the expression of the mother's
thoughts. The five stages of prenatal culture
stated and illustrated.-The mother of the
Wesleys. The child the heir and expression
of the mother's thought and life,
CHAPTER IX.
97-112
PREPARATION FOR FATHERHOOD.
The command to "replenish the earth."-Prep-
aration for motherhood more written about
than preparation for fatherhood.—Questions
which would test the fitness of young men
for marriage.-Parents should know the char-
acter of young men who desire their daughters
in marriage. Many young men of startling
worth. The improving of a good heritage.-
Effects of bad morals and wayward habits.-
Effects of tobacco and alcoholics.-How young
women help to contribute bad habits in young
men. The years of rooting and weeding
necessary.-Attaining the best.-The father
reproduced in his children,
CHAPTER X.
ANTENATAL INFANTICIDE.
113-121
The alarming prevalence of this hideous sin.-
How daughters are initiated.-How expectant
mothers appeal to reputable physicians.—
Young women should be taught to associate
the idea of marriage with motherhood.-De-
struction of own health and life go hand in
hand with prenatal murder.-Effect of such
attempts upon the physical life and character.
-Life from the moment of conception.-The
injustice and cruel wrongs inflicted upon
wives by uncontrolled passions of husbands.—
Obligation of motherhood should be recog-
nized. Its blessings.-The duty of the physi-
cian as educator of public sentiment,
CHAPTER XI.
123-134
THE MORAL RESPONSIBILITY OF PARENTS IN
HEREDITY.
The duty of the present to future generations.
-Darwin on heredity.-Nature inexorable.—
The mother's investment of moulding power.
-The father's important part in the trans-
mission of heredity. The parents workers
together with God.-Parents must reap what
they sow. The law and the gospel of heredity
contrasted. The children of inebriates and
others.-Lessons from reformatory institu-
tions. The outcast Margaret.-The mother of
Samson.-How a child became an embodi-
ment of "The Lady of the Lake."-The
woman who desired to be the mother of
governors.-Importance of this study,
CHAPTER XII.
AILMENTS OF PREGNANCY.
135-145
Pregnancy not an unnatural but a normal state.
-Tendency to neglect hygienic rules.-
Morning sickness.-How to correct it.-Im-
portant questions of diet.-Displaced uterus
as cause of nausea.-Mental states.-Com-
panionship. Various gastric troubles.-In-