This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...over and over, so that when it is time for the baby to come, everything W111 be ready to work just as it should. Regularly every four weeks the tiny little egg leavesits soft, warm nest and starts on its journey to the larger nest. Just as regularly, the larger nest gets all ready to receive it; just ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...over and over, so that when it is time for the baby to come, everything W111 be ready to work just as it should. Regularly every four weeks the tiny little egg leavesits soft, warm nest and starts on its journey to the larger nest. Just as regularly, the larger nest gets all ready to receive it; just as if it were really going to stay." After explaining about the menstrual flow, she concludes: "It is very important that the nests do this work when a girl is young, so that by the time she grows up and gets married they will be ready to do the great work for which they were created." ' Mrs. Heller puts this phase of woman's existence upon an even higher plane by terming these "the days consecrated to your womanhood." That is, instead of being a hindrance to a career, they are the very symbol of the central purpose of life. Any sacrifice of good times now should be thought of as in cidental to becoming a healthy, eflicient, functioning woman. It is even possible to hold out such high, pure, sweet hopes of eventual motherhood as shall make this season sacramental in one's personal experience. Another watch-care at this time is due, because of the fact mentioned above that sometimes the sex-instinct is more active, also self-control is diminished following the period. This matter of the self-protection of girls will be discust fully later. Alleviating the Discomfort The following sensible suggestions are taken, by permission, from Dr. Isabelle Thompson Smart's "What a Mother Should Tell Her Daugh ter" "Very frequently the neglect of the bowels causes painful menstruation. Constipation is very common among the women and girls of to-day, and the tendency of both men and women to...
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