What a Young Woman Ought to Know Part 17

"What a Young Wife Ought to Know."

BY MRS. EMMA F.A. DRAKE, M.D.

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HUSBAND AND HOME

The choice of a husband--One worthy of both love and respect--Real characteristics necessary--Purity vs. "wild oats"--What shall a young wife expect to be to her husband?--His equal, but not his counterpart--His helpmeet Wifehood and motherhood--Should keep pace with his mental growth--Trousseau and wedding presents--The foolish and ruinous display at weddings--Wedding presents and unhappiness--Wise choice of furniture--The best adornments for the home.

THE MARITAL RELATIONS

The marital state should be the most holy of sanctuaries--Its influence upon character--Modesty--Reproduction the primal purpose--Love's highest plane--The right and wrong of marriage--The wrongdoings of good men.

PARENTHOOD

Preparation for motherhood--Motherhood the glory of womanhood--Maternity productive of health--Clothing--Exercise--Baths, etc., etc.--The child the expression of the mother's thoughts--The five stages of prenatal culture.

PREPARATION FOR FATHERHOOD

Questions which test the fitness of young men for marriage--Many young men of startling worth--Effects of bad morals and wayward habits--Tobacco and Alcoholics--Attaining the best--The father reproduced in his children.

ANTENATAL INFANTICIDE

The moral responsibility of parents in heredity--The mother's investment of moulding power--Parents workers together with G.o.d--Ailments during expectant motherhood--Maternity a normal state--Development of the foetus--Minuteness of the germ of human life--Changes which take place--Life present the moment conception takes place--The sin of tampering with the work of the Infinite.

THE LITTLE ONE

Baby's wardrobe--The question that comes with fluttering signs of life--Importance of wise choice of material and style of dress--Choice of physician and nurse of real consequence--The birth chamber--Surroundings and after-care of the mother--The care of the baby--The responsibilities and joys of motherhood--The mother the baby's teacher--Common ailments of children and how to treat them--Guarding against vice--The training of children--Body building--Helps for mothers.

"What a Young Wife Ought to Know"

WHAT EMINENT PEOPLE SAY

Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster

"Joyfully I send you my unqualified endors.e.m.e.nt of the excellent book, 'What a Young Wife Ought to Know.' I wish every young and perplexed wife might read its pages."

Charles H. Parkhurst, D.D.

"It handles delicate matters in a manner as firm as it is delicate, and dignifies even what is common by the purity of the sentiment and n.o.bility of intent with which it is treated."

Marietta Holly (Josiah Allen's Wife)

"It is an excellent book; if every young wife of to-day would read it and lay its lessons to heart it would make the to-morrow much easier and happier for all of Eve's daughters."

W.G. Sperry, M.D.

"Young wives, for whom this book is intended, wilt receive great benefits from heeding its wise words. It is good for incitement, guidance, restraint."

Mrs. Joseph Cook

"It illuminates the Holy of Holies in the most sacred of earthly relations.h.i.+ps with the white light of truth and purity."

Julia Holmes Smith, M.D.

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J.P. Sutherland, M.D.

"A subject difficult to treat has been handled by Dr. Drake with delicacy, earnestness and straightforwardness. It is a practical book destined to do good."

"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--l.u.s.tful 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.

"What a Woman of Forty-five Ought to Know"

PRAISED BY THE PRESS

"Will dispel 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._