. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . erage railroad man of thirty years ago,who, although we love his memory inspite of his faults, was not the peer ofthe railroad man of today. PERSONAL PURITY COURSES In voting to give sex hygiene place inits high school curriculum, the Board ofEducation of Chicago makes a daringinnovation. The course is to be styledpersonal purity instead of sexualhygiene, a modification that will makethe innovation slightly less objection-able to those over-nice people who wouldprefer not to have the subject mentionedat all. Instruction in personal purity is by all adm
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . erage railroad man of thirty years ago,who, although we love his memory inspite of his faults, was not the peer ofthe railroad man of today. PERSONAL PURITY COURSES In voting to give sex hygiene place inits high school curriculum, the Board ofEducation of Chicago makes a daringinnovation. The course is to be styledpersonal purity instead of sexualhygiene, a modification that will makethe innovation slightly less objection-able to those over-nice people who wouldprefer not to have the subject mentionedat all. Instruction in personal purity is by all admitted to be a delicate question,but it is a vital and essential pari of thetraining of every boy and girl, and nothought of the delicacy of the problemshould be allowed to overshadow itsuniversal importance. Since the courseis experimental, the Board of Educationhas shown wisdom in not introducing itat the start below the high school. —Leslie8, THIRTY-NINE IN EVERY ONE HUNDREDMEN UNMARRIED CONDITION THROWS HEAVY BURDEN OF TOIL ON WOMEN. HAT race suicide is afactor to be reckonedwith in the UnitedStates is made plainby statistics pub-lished today by theEquitable Life As-surance Society,showing that there are 17,000,000 un-married persons in the country and that39 out of every 100 male adults are with-out wives. These unmated millions nearly equalin number the population of the King-dom of Spain, or that of Mexico andCanada combined. They are divided asfollows: Unmarried men aged 20 years andover 8,102,000. Unmarried women above 15 years ofage, 9, Of the men, with whom rests theinitiative in marital affairs. 7,226,000 arebetween the ages of 20 and 44 years and500,000 are between 45 and 54 yearsold. Making due allowance for the impe-cunious, the aged and the mentally andphysically unfit, it is safe to say that5,000,000 of these single men are capableof assuming the responsibilities of mar-ried life. PUTS BURDEN OF TOIL ON WOMEN The inference drawn by the com-pilers of th
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