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Pure Books on Avoided Subjects

_Books for Men_

_By Sylvanus Stall, D. D._

    “What a Young Boy Ought to Know.”
    “What a Young Man Ought to Know.”
    “What a Young Husband Ought to Know.”
    “What a Man of 45 Ought to Know.”

_Books for Women_

_By Mrs. Mary Wood-Allen, M. D., And Mrs. Emma F. A. Drake, M. D._

    “What a Young Girl Ought to Know.”
    “What a Young Woman Ought to Know.”
    “What a Young Wife Ought to Know.”
    “What a Woman of 45 Ought to Know.”

PRICE AND BINDING

The books are issued in uniform size and but one style of binding, and
sell in America at $1, in Great Britain at 4s., net, per copy, post free,
whether sold singly or in sets.

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                       THE VIR PUBLISHING COMPANY
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                       THE VIR PUBLISHING COMPANY
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                                IN CANADA
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[Illustration: EMMA F. ANGELL DRAKE, M.D.]




                                                    PRICE $1.00 NET
                                                          4S. NET

                            PURITY AND TRUTH

                              WHAT A YOUNG
                                  WIFE
                              OUGHT TO KNOW

                     (_THOUSAND DOLLAR PRIZE BOOK_)

                                   BY

                    MRS. EMMA F. ANGELL DRAKE, M. D.

    Graduate of Boston University Medical College; formerly
    Physician and Principal of Mr. Moody’s School at Northfield,
    Mass.; Professor of Obstetrics at Denver Homœopathic Medical
    School and Hospital; Author of “What a Woman of 45 Ought to
    Know,” “Maternity Without Suffering.”

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                   COPYRIGHT, 1901, by SYLVANUS STALL

                   COPYRIGHT, 1902, by SYLVANUS STALL

              Entered at Stationers’ Hall, London, England

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      Convention, in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain,
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                     [PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES]




Dedicated

TO THE YOUNG WIVES WHO DESIRE THE BEST FOR THEMSELVES, FOR THEIR HUSBANDS
AND FOR THEIR OFFSPRING




PREFACE


To this generation as to no other, are we indebted for the awakening of
woman. Not the awakening alone which has led her out of the old lines
into nearly every avenue open to man in his pursuit of the necessities
and luxuries of life; but that other and larger awakening which has set
her down face to face with herself, and in her study of woman she has
shown herself courageous.

Bravely acknowledging her own limitations, she has set herself the task
of fortifying the weak points, curbing the more daring aspirations, and
getting herself into trim, so to speak, that she may traverse the sea of
life, without danger to herself, her cargo, or to any of the countless
ships which follow in her wake, or that pass her in the day or the night.

Not all women have yet awakened, and for those who have eyes to see, and
have seen, a great work is still waiting to be done. They must reach out
and rouse their sisters. Will they do it? With our young wives rests
the weal or woe of the future generations. To them we say, “What of the
future, and what sort of souls shall you give to it?”

                                                        EMMA F. A. DRAKE.

       DENVER, Colorado,
    United States of America.
     _February 1st, 1901._




CONTENTS.


                               CHAPTER I.

                     INTELLIGENCE OF THE YOUNG WIFE.

    Out of girlhood into wifehood.—The setting up of a new
    home.—Woman’s exalted place.—Earlier influences.—Importance
    of intelligence.—Woman fitted by creator for wifehood
    and motherhood.—The position of reproductive organs in
    the body.—Dangers of crowding contents of abdomen.—What
    all young wives need to know.—Premium previously set
    upon ignorance.—Heredity.—Failures and successes of our
    ancestors.—Faults and virtues transmitted through heredity,    21-35

                               CHAPTER II.

                             HOME AND DRESS.

    Preparations for successful home-makers.—The importance of
    sensible dress.—An opportunity for reform.—The conditions of
    attractive dress.—A question of healthfulness.—What wives need
    to know concerning dress.—The kind to be avoided.—Injurious
    dress destroying the race.—The ailments caused by wrong
    dressing.—The corset curse.—A summary of the evils of dress,   37-46

                              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 recreations taken
    together.—Taking time to keep young.—Mistakes which some
    husbands make.—Wrecks at the beginning of married life,        47-55

                               CHAPTER IV.

                        THE CHOICE OF A HUSBAND.

    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.—Deficiencies in character not to be supplied after
    marriage.—The right to demand purity.—Young men who “sow wild
    oats.”—Importance of good health.—Weaknesses and diseases which
    descend from parents to children.—The parents’ part in aiding
    to a wise choice.—The value of the physician’s counsel.—One
    capable of supporting wife and children.—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 recognized centre of the home.—Woman’s
    true greatness.—Man’s helpmeet.—Mrs. Gladstone’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 wifehood 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,                                                65-72

                               CHAPTER VI.

                     TROUSSEAU AND WEDDING PRESENTS.

    Husband and wife ruined before their “crane is
    hung.”—The foolish and ruinous display at weddings.—An
    illustration given.—How wedding 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.—Marriage 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 purpose.—Harmony of purpose and
    life.—Love’s highest plane.—The value of continence.—The right
    and wrong of marriage.—The relation during gestation.—Effects
    of relation during gestation illustrated.—The wrong-doings of
    good men.—The fruits of ignorance.—The better day coming,      79-96

                              CHAPTER VIII.

                       PREPARATION FOR MOTHERHOOD.

    Motherhood the glory of womanhood.—Maternity 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.—Importance 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,              97-112

                               CHAPTER IX.

                       PREPARATION FOR FATHERHOOD.

    The command to “replenish the earth.”—Preparation for
    motherhood more written about than preparation for
    fatherhood.—Questions which would test the fitness of
    young men for marriage.—Parents should know the character
    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