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
3. How to dress so that organic functions may not be disturbed, and so
that beauty and form may be preserved.
4. How to exercise so that muscles and nerves may be kept in vigor, and
the blood in active circulation.
5. How much rest to take thoroughly to recuperate the wasted energies,
and keep the spirits buoyant.
6. What to deny one’s self, that health may be preserved and the temper
kept sweet.
7. As a part of the great human family, what is one’s responsibility to
herself, to her family, to the best use of her time, and the generation
which shall come after her?
8. Is reproduction a multiplying of one’s self; and if so, is she willing
that herself, just as she is, should be reproduced.
9. What faults and failings has she, that she would not like to entail
upon her offspring?
10. A thorough knowledge and understanding of the reproductive system.
11. Hereditary influences, and her moral responsibility in the
inheritance of the generations to follow her.
To quote from Dr. Wm. Capp, “An appreciation of the situation cannot,
however, be expected in the young who, in the surge of mental and bodily
development, with its charming surprises of novelty, heedlessly float
along in the present quite unconscious of future dangers, of which it is
impossible for them to know, except they be warned by trusted guides.” He
then adds, “The best social interests of the race are in the keeping of
faithful mothers. Their education, both of intellect and heart, should be
of the highest order.”
Instead of any inducement having been offered our young people for
extending their knowledge of self, a premium has been put upon ignorance,
and the result has been in many cases disastrous to both health and
morals. The time is not far distant, we believe, when our young people
will refuse any longer to be considered, in the knowledge of self,
ignorantly pure. Ignorance is _not_ purity, but is often the _cause_ of
the grossest _impurity_; while intelligent knowledge is productive of
purity of the highest and noblest type.
Further if our young wives would know themselves, they must of necessity
become acquainted with the peculiarities, physical and mental, of
father, mother, grandfather and grandmother. In other words, they must
not only know themselves as they are, but the families from which they
sprang; then will they know, measurably, the possibilities of their
natures, and their limitations.
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