What is love—Should include mental conjugality, spiritual sympathy and physical attraction—Responsibility in marriage—Antecedents, talents and habits of young man—The law of heredity—Beneficial—Effects of stimulants upon offspring—Inherited effects of immorality—Good characteristics also transmitted—Requisites in a husband—Engagements—Benefits of, evils of—Holding to the highest ideals—Weddings—Gifts, tours and realities of life. Price { $1.00 } net, per copy, post free { 4 s. } * * * * * “What a Young Woman Ought to Know.” WHAT EMINENT PEOPLE SAY Lady Henry Somerset “An extremely valuable book, and I wish that it may be widely circulated.” Mrs. Laura Ormiston Chant “The book ought to be in the hands of every girl on her fifteenth birthday, as a safe guide and teacher along the difficult path of womanhood.” Margaret Warner Morley “There is an awful need for the book, and it does what it has undertaken to do better than anything of the kind I ever read.” Mrs. May Wright Sewall “I am profoundly grateful that a subject of such information to young woman should be treated in a manner at once so noble and so delicate.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton “It is a grave mistake for parents to try to keep their children ignorant of the very questions on which they should have scientific information.” Lillian M. N. Stevens “There is a great need of carefully, delicately written books upon the subjects treated in this series. I am gratefully glad that the author has succeeded so well, and I trust great and enduring good will be the result.” Mrs. Matilda B. Carse “It is pure and instructive on the delicate subjects that mean so much to our daughters, to their future as home-keepers, wives and mothers, and to the future generations.” * * * * * “What a Woman of Forty-five Ought to Know” BY MRS. EMMA F. A. DRAKE, M. D. Condensed Table of Contents KNOWLEDGE OF CLIMACTERIC NECESSARY Why women are not prepared to meet the climacteric—The fear that unnerves many—Error of views concerning “Change of Life”—Correct teaching stated—Influence of medical literature—Three periods in a woman’s life—Relation of early habits to later aches and ills—The menopause—Conditions which influence the period of the climacteric—The age at which it usually appears—Effects of heredity—Childless women—Mothers of large families—Effects of different occupations—Excesses. HERALDS OF CHANGE—DISEASES AND REMEDIES