What a Young Wife Ought to Know. Emma F. Angell Drake
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| Автор произведения | Emma F. Angell Drake |
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Emma F. Angell Drake
What a Young Wife Ought to Know
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664633378
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. INTELLIGENCE OF THE YOUNG WIFE.
CHAPTER III. HEALTH OF THE YOUNG WIFE.
CHAPTER IV. THE CHOICE OF A HUSBAND.
CHAPTER V. WHAT SHALL A YOUNG WIFE EXPECT TO BE TO HER HUSBAND?
CHAPTER VI. TROUSSEAU AND WEDDING PRESENTS.
CHAPTER VII. THE MARITAL RELATIONS.
CHAPTER VIII. PREPARATION FOR MOTHERHOOD.
CHAPTER IX. PREPARATION FOR FATHERHOOD.
CHAPTER X. ANTENATAL INFANTICIDE.
CHAPTER XI. THE MORAL RESPONSIBILITY OF PARENTS IN HEREDITY.
CHAPTER XII. AILMENTS OF PREGNANCY.
CHAPTER XIII. DEVELOPMENT OF THE FŒTUS.
CHAPTER XV. THE CHOICE OF PHYSICIAN AND NURSE.
CHAPTER XVI. THE BIRTH CHAMBER.
CHAPTER XVII. SURROUNDINGS AND AFTER-CARE OF THE MOTHER.
CHAPTER XVIII. CARE OF THE BABY.
CHAPTER XIX. THE MOTHER THE TEACHER.
CHAPTER XX. COMMON AILMENTS OF CHILDREN.
CHAPTER XXI. GUARDING AGAINST SECRET VICE.
CHAPTER XXII. THE TRAINING OF CHILDREN.
CHAPTER XXIV. MOTHERS’ MEETINGS, STUDY CLUBS AND BOOKS.
PREFACE
To this generation as to no other, are we indebted for the awakening of woman. Not the awakening alone which has led her out of the old lines into nearly every avenue open to man in his pursuit of the necessities and luxuries of life; but that other and larger awakening which has set her down face to face with herself, and in her study of woman she has shown herself courageous.
Bravely acknowledging her own limitations, she has set herself the task of fortifying the weak points, curbing the more daring aspirations, and getting herself into trim, so to speak, that she may traverse the sea of life, without danger to herself, her cargo, or to any of the countless ships which follow in her wake, or that pass her in the day or the night.
Not all women have yet awakened, and for those who have eyes to see, and have seen, a great work is still waiting to be done. They must reach out and rouse their sisters. Will they do it? With our young wives rests the weal or woe of the future generations. To them we say, “What of the future, and what sort of souls shall you give to it?”
Emma F. A. Drake.
Denver, Colorado,
United States of America.
February 1st, 1901.
CHAPTER I.
INTELLIGENCE OF THE YOUNG WIFE.
Out of Girlhood into Wifehood.—The Setting up of a New Home.—Woman’s Exalted Place.—Earlier Influences.—Importance of Intelligence.—Woman Fitted by Creator for Wifehood and Motherhood.—The Position of Reproductive Organs in the Body.—Dangers of Crowding Contents of Abdomen.—What all Young Wives Need to Know.—Premium Previously set upon Ignorance.—Heredity.—Failures and Successes of our Ancestors.—Faults and Virtues Transmitted through Heredity.
What a young wife ought to know is a large question, and one which we neither hope nor expect to answer fully in this little book, but if what we shall say shall set our girls to thinking a little more seriously and more exaltedly, of the great possibilities which await them: if it shall prepare them to enter the sacred realm of marriage with holier thoughts of the high duties they are assuming, we shall be content, feeling we have accomplished our purpose.
Out of girlhood into wifehood, seems a short step, but it is one fraught with grave responsibilities. If all along your girlhood way, your aspirations have been high, and you have been living for the best, you are prepared for the new life and its duties; if, on the other hand, you have been drifting thoughtlessly, as so many girls are allowed to do, you will have little conception of what the future holds for you.
A new home at your touch is to be called into being; a new altar reared, upon which the sacrificial offerings shall be those of love, and confidence, and life, and mutual endeavor, and work, not for self, but for that other self whom you have chosen out of all the world to be the sharer of everything that life means and that you hold dear.
“And the Lord said, it is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.” And have you ever thought that in all these years we have made the mistake of writing these words together as one? We lose half of the designed meaning when we do this. “Meet means to have bestowed upon or sent to one: