What a Young Wife Ought to KnowDrake, Emma F. Angell (Emma Frances Angell)
Science
What a Young Wife Ought to Know
Drake, Emma F. Angell (Emma Frances Angell)
Infants -- Care; Marriage; Women -- Health and hygiene
Mental states during menopause—Change in blood
currents—Flushes, chilliness, dizziness, etc.—Nervous
Symptoms—Disturbed mental and nervous equilibriums—Nature
as woman’s helper—Troublesome ailments—Mental troubles
considered—Suggested help—Cancer—Benefits named—Apprehensions
dispelled—How to banish worry—Simplifying daily duty—An eminent
physician’s prescription—A word to single women—Reluctance of
unmarried women to meet the menopause—How to prolong one’s
youth—Dress during this period—The mother “At Sea”—Guarding
against becoming gloomy—Effects of patent medicine
advertising—Drug fiends—Lustful indulgence.
WHAT BOTH HUSBAND AND WIFE SHOULD REMEMBER
Slights and inattentions keenly felt by her—Need of patience—A
word of private counsel—Value of little attentions—Wife’s
duty to her husband—Holding husband’s affections—Making home
attractive—Unselfishness.
AUTO-SUGGESTION AND OTHER SUGGESTIONS
Influence of mind over body—The mind as a curative agent—How
to rise out of depression—Mental philosophy and physical
betterment—Relation of health to sight—Care of the teeth—The
hair—Constipation—Self cure—Choice of foods—Exercise—Physical
development—Exercise of mind and soul.
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“What a Woman of Forty-five Ought to Know”
PRAISED BY THE PRESS
“Will dispell apprehensions aroused by groundless
forebodings.”—_Reformed Church Messenger._
“If the hygienic advice in this book is followed it will
lengthen the lives of women and make their closing years the
happiest and most useful of all.”—_Herald and Presbyter._
“In no line of literature, perhaps, is such a book so much
needed.”—_New Haven Leader._
“Those who peruse the book only from prurient curiosity will be
disappointed.”—_Cleveland World._
“Should be read by every woman nearing and passing middle
life.”—_Pittsburg Gazette._
“Written in that wholesome sympathetic manner characteristic
of all the books in the Self and Sex Series.”—_Cleveland Daily
World._
“Full of most admirable practical advice and it is written in
a sympathetic manner which is the outcome of oneness of sex
between the author and those whom she addresses.”—_Syracuse
Herald._
“There are some things that a woman of forty-five does not
know—things which she regards with more or less terror in the
expectation—which terror it is the object of Mrs. Drake to
dispel.”—_Rochester Herald._
“There is nothing in the book that could not be proclaimed from
the house-tops, and there is everything in it that intelligent
and thoughtful women should read and keep for their daughters
to read when the proper time comes.”—_Newark Daily Advertiser._
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“What a Young Boy Ought to Know.”
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