ost, which chills and kills it ere
it blossoms in its richness and beauty._

9. A DIADEM OF BEAUTY.--Maternity, when it exists at the call of the wife,
and is gratefully received, but binds her heart more tenderly and devotedly
to her husband. As the father of her child, he stands before her invested
with new beauty and dignity. In receiving from him the germ of a new life,
she receives that which she feels is to add new beauty and glory to her as
a woman--a new grace and attraction to her as a wife. She loves and honors
him, because he has crowned her with the glory of a mother. Maternity, to
her, instead of being repulsive, is a diadem of beauty, a crown of
rejoicing; and deep, tender, and self-forgetting are her love and reverence
for him who has placed it on her brow. How noble, how august, how beautiful
is maternity when thus bestowed and received!

10. CONCLUSION.--Would you, then, secure the love and trust of your wife,
and become an object of her ever-growing tenderness and reverence? Assure
her, by all your manifestations, and your perfect respect for the functions
of her nature, that your passion shall be in subjection of her wishes. It
is not enough that you have secured in her heart respect for your spiritual
and intellectual manhood. To maintain your self-respect in your relations
with her, to perfect your growth and happiness as a husband, you must cause
your _physical_ nature to be tenderly cherished and reverenced by her in
all the sacred intimacies of home. No matter how much she reverences your
intellectual or your social power, if by reason of your uncalled-for
passional manifestations you have made your physical manhood disagreeable,
how can you, in her presence, preserve a sense of manly pride and dignity
as a husband?

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Heredity and the Transmission of Diseases.

[Illustration: HEALTH AND DISEASE.]

1. BAD HABITS.--It is known that the girl who marries the man with bad
habits, is, in a measure, responsible for the evil tendencies which these
habits have created in the children; and young people are constantly warned
of the danger in marrying when they know they come from families troubled
with chronic diseases or insanity. To be sure the warnings have had little
effect thus far in preventing such marriages, and it is doubtful whether
they will, unless the prophecy of an extremist writing for one of our
periodicals comes to pass--that the time