What a Young Woman Ought to Know
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- Books for Men
- Books for Women
- NEW REVISED EDITION Self and Sex Series
- WHAT A YOUNG WOMAN OUGHT TO KNOW
- MRS. MARY WOOD-ALLEN, M.D.
- All rights reserved
- [PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES]
- TO THE DAUGHTER DEAR, WHOSE INTIMATE AND CONFIDENTIAL COMPANIONSHIP FROM CHILDHOOD TO WOMANHOOD HAS MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO FEEL A SYMPATHETIC INTEREST IN THE LIFE-PROBLEMS OF ALL GIRLS, THIS BOOK IS MOST LOVINGLY DEDICATED BY HER MOTHER
- CONTENTS.
- PREFACE.
- PART I.
- THE VALUE OF HEALTH, AND RESPONSIBILITY IN MAINTAINING IT.
- WHAT A YOUNG WOMAN OUGHT TO KNOW.
- CHAPTER I.ToC
- WHAT ARE YOU WORTH?
- CHAPTER II.ToC
- CARE OF BODY.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER III.ToC
- FOOD.
- CHAPTER IV.ToC
- SLEEP.
- CHAPTER V.ToC
- BREATHING.
- CHAPTER VI.ToC
- HINDRANCES TO BREATHING.
- CHAPTER VII.ToC
- ADDED INJURIES FROM TIGHT CLOTHING.
- CHAPTER VIII.ToC
- EXERCISE.
- CHAPTER IX.ToC
- BATHING.
- PART II.
- NEED OF SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE; SOME FORMS OF AVOIDABLE DISEASE, THEIR REMEDY AND PREVENTION.
- CHAPTER X.ToC
- CREATIVE POWER.
- CHAPTER XI.ToC
- BUILDING BRAINS.
- CHAPTER XII.ToC
- YOU ARE MORE THAN BODY OR MIND.
- CHAPTER XIII.ToC
- SPECIAL PHYSIOLOGY.
- CHAPTER XIV.ToC
- BECOMING A WOMAN.
- CHAPTER XV.ToC
- ARTIFICIALITIES OF CIVILIZED LIFE.
- CHAPTER XVI.ToC
- SOME CAUSES OF PAINFUL MENSTRUATION.
- CHAPTER XVII.ToC
- "FEMALE DISEASES."
- CHAPTER XVIII.ToC
- CARE DURING MENSTRUATION.
- CHAPTER XIX.ToC
- SOLITARY VICE.
- CHAPTER XX.ToC
- BE GOOD TO YOURSELF.
- CHAPTER XXI.ToC
- FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN BOYS AND GIRLS.
- CHAPTER XXII.ToC
- FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN GIRLS.
- CHAPTER XXIII.ToC
- EXERCISES.
- CHAPTER XXIV.ToC
- RECREATIONS.
- PART III.
- LOVE; HEREDITY; ENGAGEMENTS.
- CHAPTER XXV.ToC
- LOVE.
- CHAPTER XXVI.ToC
- RESPONSIBILITY IN MARRIAGE.
- CHAPTER XXVII.ToC
- THE LAW OF HEREDITY.
- CHAPTER XXVIII.ToC
- HEREDITARY EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, ETC.
- CHAPTER XXIX.ToC
- EFFECTS OF IMMORALITY ON THE RACE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XXX.ToC
- THE GOSPEL OF HEREDITY.
- BIBLE TEXTS BEARING ON THE SUBJECT OF HEREDITY.
- CHAPTER XXXI.ToC
- REQUISITES OF A HUSBAND.
- CHAPTER XXXII.ToC
- ENGAGEMENTS.
- CHAPTER XXXIII.ToC
- THE WEDDING.
- THE END.
- Offices of Publication
- "What a Young Girl Ought to Know."
- "What a Young Girl Ought to Know"
- WHAT EMINENT PEOPLE SAY
- Francis E. Willard, LL.D.
- Mrs. Elizabeth B. Grannis
- Mrs. Harriet Lincoln Coolidge
- Mrs. Katharine L. Stevenson
- Mrs. Isabelle MacDonald Alden, "Pansy"
- Miss Grace H. Dodge
- Ira D. Sankey
- "What a Young Wife Ought to Know."
- "What a Young Wife Ought to Know"
- WHAT EMINENT PEOPLE SAY
- Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster
- Charles H. Parkhurst, D.D.
- Marietta Holly (Josiah Allen's Wife)
- W.G. Sperry, M.D.
- Mrs. Joseph Cook
- Julia Holmes Smith, M.D.
- J.P. Sutherland, M.D.
- "What a Woman of Forty-five Ought to Know."
- "What a Woman of Forty-five Ought to Know"
- PRAISED BY THE PRESS
- A New Book by Charles Frederic Goss
- More Important than the Simple or the Strenuous Life is the Home Life
- "HUSBAND, WIFE AND HOME"
- A NEW DEVOTIONAL BOOK
- "Faces Toward the Light"
- SOME CHAPTERS IN THE BOOK
- Just Published. New Revised Edition.
- FIVE-MINUTE OBJECT SERMONS TO CHILDREN
- Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate Into the City of Child-Soul
- Talks to the King's Children
- Second Series of "Five-Minute Object Sermons" By SYLVANUS STALL, D.D.
- Invaluable in THE HOME, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, THE PASTOR'S LIBRARY, THE MISSION FIELD
- A CHILDREN'S PREACHER
- THE CHILDREN GOOD JUDGES
- JUST PUBLISHED
- Two Important Booklets
- The Social Duty of Our Daughters
- Before Marriage
- God's Minute
- THE VIR PUBLISHING COMPANY PHILADELPHIA, PA., U.S.A.: 200 N. Fifteenth St. LONDON: 7, Imperial Arcade, Ludgate Circus, E.C. CANADA: Ryerson Press, Queen and John Streets
- "Touchstones of Success"
- WRITTEN BY 160 Present Day Men of Achievement Especially for This Book Opinions of Great Business Men
- The Publishers: The VIR PUBLISHING COMPANY 200-214: North 15th Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
- Marvels of Our Bodily Dwelling
- Introduction by SYLVANUS STALL. D.D.
- A Marvelous Book Upon a Marvelous Subject THE VIR PUBLISHING COMPANY PHILADELPHIA. PA., U.S.A.: 200 N. 15th Street LONDON: 7, Imperial Arcade, Ludgate Circus, E.C. TORONTO: Ryerson Press, 29 Richmond Street. W.
- Bible Selections for Daily Devotion
- SYLVANUS STALL, D.D.
- THE VIR PUBLISHING COMPANY PHILADELPHIA, PA., U.S.A.: 200 N. 15th Street LONDON: 7, Imperial Arcade, Ludgate Circus, E.C. TORONTO: Ryerson Press, Queen and John Streets
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