shoddily clothed, dragging at your skirt,
yourself a dragged out shadow of the woman you once were.
Don't be over sentimental in this important phase of hygiene. The
inevitable fact is that unless you prevent the male sperm from
entering the womb, you are going to become pregnant. Women of the
working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two
children at most. The average working man can support no more and the
average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion. It
has been my experience that more children are not really wanted, but
that the women are compelled to have them either from lack of
foresight or through ignorance of the hygiene of preventing
conception.
It is only the workers who are ignorant of the knowledge of how to
prevent bringing children in the world to fill jails and hospitals,
factories and mills, insane asylums and premature graves.
The working women can use direct action by refusing to supply the
market with children to be exploited, by refusing to populate the
earth with slaves.
It is also the one most direct method for you working women to help
yourself _today_.
Pass on this information to your neighbor and comrade workers. Write
out any of the following information which you are sure will help her,
and pass it along where it is needed. Spread this important knowledge!
* * * * *
The Small Family System: Is it Injurious or Immoral? by Dr. C. V.
Drysdale. B. W. Huebsch, New York City.
The Problem of Race-Regeneration, by Havelock Ellis, Moffat, Yard &
Co., New York City.
The Task of Social Hygiene, by Havelock Ellis. Houghton Mifflin & Co.,
Boston, Mass.
The Limitation of Offspring by the Prevention of Conception, by Dr.
Wm. J. Robinson, Critic & Guide Co., New York City.
"What Every Girl Should Know" by Margaret Sanger.
Paper cover, 25 cents.
Cloth cover, 50 cents.
"What Every Mother Should Know" by Margaret Sanger.
Paper cover, 25 cents.
Cloth cover, 50 cents.
The above are obtainable from Max Maisel, 424 Grand Street, New York
City.
"The Birth Control Review" Edited by Margaret Sanger.
One Dollar a Year
104 Fifth Ave., New York City.
A NURSE'S ADVICE TO WOMEN.
Every woman who is desirous of preventing conception will follow this
advice:
Don't wait to see if you do _not_ menstruate (monthly sickness) but
make it your duty to see that you _do_.
If you are due to be "sick"
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