What a mother should tell her little girl--Where do babies come from--How baby birds and fish come from eggs--How other animals have little nests of their own--The duty of mothers to instruct and direct--What a mother should tell her daughter--Every mother should regard this duty as sacred--Every female child is a possible future mother--Motherhood the highest function of the sex--Health the one necessary essential--Symptoms of the first, or beginning menstruation--The period of puberty in the female--Changes in the reproductive organs at puberty--The female generative organs--The function of the reproductive organs--The age of puberty in the female--The function of the ovary--The function of the womb--Why menstruation occurs every twenty-eight days--The male or papa egg--The function of the spermatozoa--"Tell the whole story"--"How do these spermatozoa get there"--The union of the species--"How can a baby live in there for such a long time"--How the baby gets its nourishment in the womb--Girls must not become mothers ... PAGE 173 CHAPTER XV PREPARING FOR MOTHERHOOD Menstruation--Irregular menstruation--Changes in the quantity of the flow--How the womb is held in place--Symptoms of menstruation--Menstruation should not be accompanied with pain--Don't give your daughters patent medicines, or "Female Regulators"--Take your daughter to the doctor--Leucorrhea in girls--Bathing when menstruating--Constipation and displaced wombs--Dress and menstruation--Absence of menstruation, or amenorrhea--Treatment of amenorrhea--Painful menstruation, or dysmenorrhea--Causes of dysmenorrhea--Treatment of dysmenorrhea--Sterility in the female--Conditions which affect the fertility of women--Climate, station in life, season of the year, age, the tendency to miscarry--Causes of sterility in the female--Displacement of womb--Diseases of womb, ovaries, or tubes--Malformations--Lacerations--Tumors--Leucorrhea--Physical debility--Obesity--Special poisons--"Knack of miscarrying"--Miscarriage--Cause of miscarriage--The course and symptoms of miscarriage--What to do when a miscarriage is threatened--Treatment of threatened miscarriage--Treatment of inevitable miscarriage--After treatment of miscarriage--The tendency to miscarriage ... PAGE 187 THE BABY CHAPTER XVI HYGIENE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BABY