re is at all times and
everywhere open to him a society of persons of the opposite sex of his own
age and of pure thoughts and lives, whose conversation will refine him and
drive from his bosom ignoble and impure thoughts.

2. THE DANGERS.--The young man who may take pleasure in the fact that he is
the hero of half a dozen or more {191} engagements and love episodes,
little realizes that such constant excitement often causes not only
dangerously frequent and long-continued nocturnal emissions, but most
painful affections of the testicles. Those who show too great familiarity
with the other sex, who entertain lascivious thoughts, continually exciting
the sexual desires, always suffer a weakening of power and sometimes the
actual diseases of degeneration, chronic inflammation of the gland,
spermatorrhoea, impotence, and the like.--Young man, beware; your
punishment for trifling with the affections of others may cost you a life
of affliction.

3. REMEDY.--Do not violate the social laws. Do not trifle with the
affections of your nature. Do not give others countless anguish, and also
do not run the chances of injuring yourself and others for life. The
society of refined and pure women is one of the strongest safeguards a
young man can have, and he who seeks it will not only find satisfaction,
but happiness. Simple friendship and kind affections for each other will
ennoble and benefit.

4. THE TIME FOR MARRIAGE.--When a young man's means permit him to marry, he
should then look intelligently for her with whom he expects to pass the
remainder of his life in perfect loyalty, and in sincerity and singleness
of heart. Seek her to whom he is ready to swear to be ever true.

5. BREACH OF CONFIDENCE.--Nothing is more certain, says Dr. Naphey, to
undermine domestic felicity, and sap the foundation of marital happiness,
than marital infidelity. The risks of disease which a married man runs in
impure intercourse are far more serious, because they not only involve
himself, but his wife and his children. He should know that there is
nothing which a woman will not forgive sooner than such a breach of
confidence. He is exposed to the plots and is pretty certain sooner or
later to fall into the snares of those atrocious parties who subsist on
blackmail. And should he escape these complications, he still must lose
self-respect, and carry about with him the burden of a guilty conscience
and a broken vow.

6. SOCIETY RULES AND CUSTOMS.--A