Produced by Donald Cummings and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Confidential Chats with Girls _BOOKS BY_ WM. LEE HOWARD, M.D. FACTS FOR THE MARRIED PLAIN FACTS ON SEX HYGIENE CONFIDENTIAL CHATS WITH BOYS CONFIDENTIAL CHATS WITH GIRLS CONFIDENTIAL CHATS WITH GIRLS BY WILLIAM LEE HOWARD, M.D. Author of “Plain Facts on Sex Hygiene,” “Confidential Chats with Boys,” “Facts for the Married” [Illustration] New York Edward J. Clode Publisher COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY EDWARD J. CLODE CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. HOW TO DEVELOP INTO WOMANHOOD 3 II. A GENERAL CHAT 14 III. THE DISORDERS OF MENSTRUATION AND GENERAL HEALTH 32 IV. THE CARE OF THE SKIN AND COMPLEXION 51 V. NERVES AND THE NERVOUS GIRL 76 VI. HOW TO GET WILL POWER 89 VII. HOW TO KEEP ATTRACTIVE 99 VIII. SOME DON’TS 115 FOREWORD The American girl from fourteen to eighteen years of age has been sadly neglected in the most important and necessary part of her education. Knowledge of unessentials and nursery physiology, along with a smattering of academic teachings, have held her apart from a true appreciation of her real value to herself and humanity. Physical exercise and moral admonition have been given her, but not advice nor instruction which was based upon the proper foundation――sex development. Details of sex hygiene have been kept from her, and these, with the care of woman’s greatest jewel, maternal possibilities through a perfect sex growth, have all been left to chance and too often sad experience. The girl is no longer completely protected by the old home influences. To-day she is out in the world alone, struggling for herself and frequently for others. The high-school girl seems to be left in the same whirlpool of moving men and things, and just now there are unpleasant revelations of the fact that she needs care and instruction more than her working sisters. I have seen in private and hospital practice thousands of girls whose health was ruined for life through ignorance or false ideas concerning sex activities. The land is crowded with suffering wives and broken-down girls whose woeful conditions are due entirely to ignorance of sex hygiene and how to mentally and physically care for their sex development.