Produced by K.D. Thornton, Jason Isbell, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: _By courtesy of The New York Times_ NEW YORK'S BETTER BABY Little Hiss Johanna Wiggers, who won the first prize in New York's Better Babies Contest by scoring 100 points, is the type of little girl that will make the best mothers, and the better race tomorrow. Her score card showed; age, 28 months; weight, 33 lbs. 14 ozs.; height, 35-1/2 inches; circumference of head, 19-1/2 inches: circumference of chest, 20 inches; lateral diameter of chest, 6 inches; diameter of chest from front to back, 4-1/2 inches; length of arm to tip of middle finger, 14-1/2 inches; length of leg to the sole of the foot, 16-1/2 inches; total, 100 points.] The Eugenic Marriage A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies By W. GRANT HAGUE, M. D. _College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University), New York; Member of County Medical Society, and of the American Medical Association_ In Four Volumes VOLUME II New York THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY 1914 Copyright, 1913, by W. GRANT HAGUE Copyright, 1914, by W. GRANT HAGUE TABLE OF CONTENTS SEX HYGIENE FOR THE BOY CHAPTER XII BUILDING OUR BOYS PAGE A word to parents--Interest in sex hygiene--The "Social Evil"--Ten millions suffering with venereal diseases in the United States--Immorality not confined to large cities--Venereal diseases common in country places--What are the consequences of venereal disease to the boy?--Gonorrhea, or clap--Symptoms of gonorrhea in the male--Complications of gonorrhea--Syphilis, or the "pox"--How syphilis is acquired--Syphilis attacks every organ in the body--Not possible to tell when cured--The chancre--Systematic, or constitutional symptoms--Mucous patches and ulcers--Syphilis of the blood vessels and lymphatic glands--The interior organs--Brain and spinal cord--The nose, eye, ear, throat--Hair and nails--What the boy with venereal disease may cause in others--The infected wife--A girl's fate when she marries--Young wife rendered sterile--Young wife made to miscarry--Is the husband to blame--Building the man--Age of puberty--"Internal Secretion" ... PAGE 139 CHAPTER XIII THE PARENTS AND THE BOY Abuse of the procreative function--The continent life--Provide the environment necessary to the clean life--The period of procreative power--Self-abuse--Masturbation--Treatment of masturbation--Night losses or wet dreams--Causes of night emissions--Sexual excesses--Treatment of sexual excesses--What parents should know about the so-called "social evil" before speaking with authority to the boy--The need of enlightenment in sexual matters--"No one told me, I did not know"--Fake medical treatment of venereal diseases--Sowing wild oats--Should circumcision be advised ... PAGE 153 SEX HYGIENE FOR THE GIRL CHAPTER XIV A MOTHER'S DUTY TO HER DAUGHTER