THE CRIME OF PRENATAL MURDER—The day of reckoning—Words of warning—The mother’s accomplice—How often to have children—Dangerous practices—The necessity of knowledge—Importance of a proper state of mind during pregnancy—How to make one’s life noble—The first steps in meddlesome midwifery. THE NECESSARY PREPARATION FOR MOTHERHOOD—Exercise to be zealously sought—Home duties and domestic science—The best exercise—Some aids to physical development—Dress during pregnancy—The bath—Care of breasts and abdomen—Choice of physician and nurse—The husband’s part—Ailments of pregnancy—Troublesome ills—Morning sickness—Heartburn—Constipation—The prevention and treatment of piles—Other ills—Causes of nervous apprehension—Other mental conditions—Birthmarks—Threatened miscarriage. HEREDITY, PREDISPOSITION AND ENVIRONMENT—The mother’s influence on the destiny of her child—A profitable study—What a mother can do for her children—Reasons why later children are stronger and brighter. THE LYING-IN CHAMBER—The room—The bed—The mother’s dress—The articles necessary—After the advent of the baby—Necessity of knowledge—The disturbing things—Signs of pregnancy and the birth—The rational or presumptive signs—The time in reckoning—The duration of pregnancy—Exceptional cases—The disturbing stage of labor—Valuable suggestions—Directions for the nurse—Propriety of anæsthetics—Baby’s wardrobe—Requisite articles—Directions for their making—Baby’s first trunk—First toilet—Baby’s first dressing—Ensuring a night’s rest—The cradle—Hours of eating and sleeping—Proper kind of food. Price { 50 Cents } net, post free { 2 s. } * * * * * “What a Young Girl Ought to Know.” BY MRS. MARY WOOD-ALLEN, M. D. Condensed Table of Contents PART I The origin of life—One plan in all forms of life—How plants grow from the seed—They feed on the soil, grow and mature—How the plant reproduces itself—The flower, the pollen, the pod, the seed—The office of bees and insects in fertilization. PART II Fishes and their young—The parent fishes and the baby fishes—The seeds of plants and eggs of fishes, birds and animals—How fishes never know their baby offspring—Warm blooded animals—Lessons from birds—Their nests, eggs and little ones. PART III Animals and their young—The place which God has prepared for their young—Beginning their independent life—Human babies the most helpless and dependent of all creatures—The relations of parent and child—The child a part of each parent—Heredity and its lessons. PART IV