“I simply took old Dr. Chevasse’s rule which he gives in _Advice to a Wife_; you know how he puts the date of conception and opposite it the probable date of birth. I went by the first union after the last period. It so happened that my husband was seedy and there was no union for a fortnight after the end of the period. I took that first union as the date of conception and looking up the date in Chevasse and the corresponding date of birth opposite, I found it to be August 20th, and sure enough on August 20th he was born. With the second boy, the union took place the day after the last period, and I took that as the starting date and against it I found January 21st and on January 21st he arrived in spite of the doctors insisting in each case that it would be three weeks earlier. What I do is, I always make a mark in my diary against the date of first union after every period. Then when I had missed a period and so knew that there was probably conception, I could at once tell the probable date.” The table Chevasse quoted from Galabin is as follows-- From Jan. 1st to Oct. 1st = 273 (274) days, add 5 (4) days „ Feb. 1st to Nov. 1st = 273 (274) „ „ 5 (4) „ „ Mar. 1st to Dec. 1st = 275 „ „ 3 „ „ Apl. 1st to Jan. 1st = 275 „ „ 3 „ „ May 1st to Feb. 1st = 276 „ „ 2 „ „ June 1st to Mar. 1st = 273 (274) „ „ 5 (4) „ „ July 1st to Apl. 1st = 274 (275) „ „ 4 (3) „ „ Aug. 1st to May 1st = 273 (274) „ „ 5 (4) „ „ Sep. 1st to June 1st = 273 (274) „ „ 5 (4) „ „ Oct. 1st to July 1st = 273 (274) „ „ 5 (4) „ „ Nov. 1st to Aug. 1st = 273 (274) „ „ 5 (4) „ „ Dec. 1st to Sep. 1st = 274 (275) „ „ 4 (3) „ _Printed in Great Britain by_ UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED, THE GRESHAM PRESS, WOKING AND LONDON * * * * * Transcriber's Note The following apparent errors have been corrected: p. 2 "hearts’ desire" changed to "hearts desire" p. 26 "undertsand" changed to "understand" p. 73 "incapacities is," changed to "incapacities, is" p. 124 "diappointments" changed to "diappointments" p. 130 "parent this" changed to "parent: this" p. 148 "agggravation" changed to "aggravation" p. 150 "ffower" changed to "flower" p. 154 "want to to" changed to "want to" p. 218 "ignorance" changed to "ignorance." p. 233 "Franz, Keibel" changed to "Franz Keibel" The following possible errors have not been changed: p. 4 millenium p. 34 co-incidently p. 132 August 24 1893 p. 235 follows-- The following are used inconsistently in the text: lifelong and life-long overstrained and over-strained prenatal and pre-natal shamefaced and shame-faced X-rays, “X” rays and “X”-rays End of Project Gutenberg's Radiant Motherhood, by Marie Carmichael Stopes