=A personal invitation--Come and battle with us.=--This in brief is the purity movement as it has developed and as we find it to-day battling for all that makes for a higher standard of purity in the life of the individual and in social and civic relations, creating a sentiment, a purity literature and an army of well-equipped workers that will make it forever impossible to return to the days of ignorance and prudery that have always existed on matters of self and sex. It proclaims the right of every child to be well born and the right to be followed through life with such an environment and training as will assure the very best development and highest attainment. This is all it asks. Is it too much to strive for? Surely we could not be content with less and be true to the intelligence and soul-life that is ours! No cause since time began has had more to offer to those who enter its ranks than this. It appeals to every true man and woman to help carry its standards to victory, and then when ignorance shall have been abolished by knowledge, vice eradicated by virtue, disease displaced by health, and _darkness_ dispelled by _light_, there shall be ushered in that Day of Days when man shall be supremely happy because he is pure. INDEX PAGE Abortion, a mother’s testimony, 473 Adolescence, early, 143 Adolescent, period of boy, 204 Age, a sad old, 45 Air, effects of foul, 284 Alcoholic, effects of fathers, 480 Animals, baby, 108 Ant and Bee, devoid of love, 105 Asylum, a visit to, 487 Atavism, 442; examples of, 442 B BABY animals, 108; birds, 105; fish, 100; oysters, 99; let alone, 55 BATH, air, 285; air for men, 372; cold and warm, 279; cold, easy inure one’s self to, 280; the friction, 281; effects on beauty, 279 BEAUTY, architects of, 276; and sex nature, 162; building through bath, 279; hair, face and teeth, 289; relation of air to, 283; some musts and must nots, 164; substitute for physical, 164; two kinds of, 162 Bible and Heredity, 400 BIRDS, baby, 105; beginning of love, 104 Birth, 263 BIRTH MARKS, 494; only nervous mothers, 494; materialistic puzzle, 495; an experience with government, 495; an explanation of, 496; effect of constant mental repetition, 497; how to prevent, 497; example of crawfish, 498; example of mole, 498; example of amusing case, 502; example of sympathy, 501; example of anger, 499; example of discussed, 500; a sad case, 502; child marked twice, 503 Blind children, 326 Books, advice concerning, 230 BOY, the problem of, 34; should be treated differently than sister, 34; should be taught to work, 34; enjoys making money, 34; future vocation, 36; moral training should be same as sister, 37; should play with girls, 38; companions of, 38; going to college, 40; how one tried to be a man, 174; adolescent period, 204; struck girl, 159