. ... Woman in girlhood, wifehood, motherhood; her responsibilities and her duties at all periods of life; a guide in the maintenance of her health and that of her children . TON, D. C. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION I T is remarkable in this age of higher education forwomen that instruction concerning so many im-portant things in a womans life should be practicallyneglected, and, as a rule, left to chance. Throughignorance of Natures hygienic laws a woman often losesnot only her health, butalso the beauty that isdependent upon it. The young mother:ommits many grave er-rors when
. ... Woman in girlhood, wifehood, motherhood; her responsibilities and her duties at all periods of life; a guide in the maintenance of her health and that of her children . TON, D. C. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION I T is remarkable in this age of higher education forwomen that instruction concerning so many im-portant things in a womans life should be practicallyneglected, and, as a rule, left to chance. Throughignorance of Natures hygienic laws a woman often losesnot only her health, butalso the beauty that isdependent upon it. The young mother:ommits many grave er-rors when caring for herbaby by too often rely-ing solely upon her in-tuition, or upon the ad-vice of ignorant parents neglect togive their children theinformation and adviceneeded at the period ofadolescence because, notpossessing full knowl-edge as to the phenom-ena of such a time andnot realizing the dan-gers of silence, they feeldiffident and embar-rassed about referringto the s u b j e c t. All through her life, from infancy to old age, a woman fre-quently suffers from conditions which she might haveavoided had she been properly informed as to the rules of iii. The Mother and Her Baby. PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION health. Yet each woman must solve the hygienic problemsof clothing, food and bathing, the ventilation of the home,and the physical, mental and moral training of the children. It is to supply the information that keeps a womanwell and happy and guides her in bringing up a familystrong in body, in mind and in morals, that this book hasbeen written. The proper person to instruct a woman in many ofthese matters no doubt is her family physician. But thebusy practitioner seldom can take the time to discuss thedetails of right living and explain how disease is to be pre-vented. These things he, too, leaves to chance. In fact,the doctor is seldom consulted except to treat some one whois sick, and then must spend his whole time in getting thepatient well. After she has all
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