han that of happy married life.
Yet how little of it we see! How the newspapers dish up to us in strong
words the misery, despair, wretchedness, infidelity and deceit of the
divorce court. How it stares at us from the desolate fireside of friend
and acquaintance; is hinted at or suppressed by the records of the
Coroner's office; leers at us from the sumptuous mansion of the
affluent; lurks in the humble cottage of the mechanic. How sad the
contrast between the home where nestle happiness, love, contentment,
offspring; and the abode of suspicion, deceit, infidelity or barrenness.

And yet men and women are being married every day, every hour--ay, every
minute. Men and women incompatible physically, mentally, morally--urged
on by lust, cupidity, love; to escape unhappy homes; to hide sad
sins--for a thousand reasons, some good, many bad--are constantly
marrying.

A man selects a wife less carefully than he would a horse; a woman
yields herself, her life, her happiness, blindly, unreasoningly, to a
man of whom she knows nothing. A man better fitted for the hospital, the
infirmary, or the insane asylum, enters the bonds of wedlock with never
a thought of the consequences; with never a care as to whether he will
wreck his own life and happiness or that of the innocent girl he is
deceiving; with never a heed of the ill-starred, diseased, puny or
idiotic progeny his act may bring into being, a burden to the community,
a curse to himself and a constant reminder of the parent's
foolhardiness--ay, even crime!

No man who is affected with any form of Sexual or Venereal Disease
should for a single instant even think of +marriage+ until every +trace+
of his +weakness+ or +disease+ has disappeared. In these days of medical
advance in this special field, there is no excuse for such action. There
are few--very few--cases of Seminal Weakness and Impotency that cannot
now be cured. Of course, here as elsewhere, there are traps and humbugs,
quacks and charlatans, false theories and empty moralizing; but there
is also truth and knowledge, hope and certainty for such as are
sufficiently in earnest to search for them. Prof. Civiale, by his
indomitable perseverance, thorough study and experiment, and final
conclusions and discoveries, has placed the means of a perfect
restoration to full mental, bodily and sexual vigor within the reach of
all, and no man has any right now to enter either blindly or wilfully
into so sacred and important a r