If women voluntarily exposed themselves to diseases which would sap the husband's vitality, making him a dependent invalid, or expose him to the shock of a mutilating operation, or death—would men continue to suffer? Would they allow the medical secret to protect women in this alleged “freedom”? Every girl knows he would neither protect her nor continue to suffer. It is women only who have allowed the double standard of morals to stand so long, giving men the purest and best of their womanhood, but not demanding the same from them. As soon as women realize the danger to themselves and their children which they are likely to incur from men who have lived promiscuously, they will revolt against such standards. Gonorrhoea differs from syphilis, and though it is not a disease which can be transmitted from the parent to children, as syphilis can, yet it is a subtle, wrecking disease and can do almost as much harm to the individual. WHAT EVERY GIRL SHOULD KNOW [Illustration: NOTHING!] BY ORDER OF THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT FEB. 9, 1913. [From New York Call, after temporary suppression of article, “What Every Girl Should Know,” by the postal authorities.] [The particular part of the article objected to by the postal authorities]. SOME CONSEQUENCES OF IGNORANCE AND SILENCE.—PART III. Prominent medical authorities claim that syphilis was not known in Europe before the discovery of America. Others equally as prominent hold that it has existed for many centuries in Europe, but was confused with other diseases such as leprosy. It makes little difference to the girl or boy today just how long or where it came from; the point we do know is that it is here in our homes and workshops, and we should know what it is like and how to avoid it. A story is told of a French nobleman whose son was about to leave his home to live in a big city. Said the father to the son: “If you are not afraid of God, fear at least syphilis.” This advice might be applied today, for if boys or girls knew, or could see the appalling results of syphilis, they would surely fear it, for it is humanity's most deadly foe. Syphilis is an infectious disease, caused by a special microbe which is acquired by contagion or heredity. It is chronic in course, varied and intermittent in character, and the length of time it remains in the body is indefinite. It is so widespread that no country in the world is free from it, neither is any organ of the body exempt from its ravages. Let us take a young man indulging in promiscuous sexual intercourse, who cohabits with a syphilitic woman. He notices nothing wrong for about five weeks, when he becomes aware of a pimple on the sexual organs, to which perhaps he pays little attention. This grows and becomes hard at the base and is ulcerated on the top.