with
wine and strong drink., They are sensualists, and consequently, morally
diseased. Now, if in such conditions men beget their children, who can
affect surprise if they develop licentious tendencies? Are not such parents
largely to blame? Are they not criminals in a high degree? Have they not
fouled their own nest, and transmitted to their children predisposition to
moral evil?

6. FAST YOUNG MEN.--Many of our "fast young men" have been thus corrupted,
even as the children of the {435} intemperate are proved to have been.
Certainly no one can deny that many of our "well-bred" young men are little
better than "high-class dogs" so lawless are they, and ready for the arena
of licentiousness.

7. THE PURE-MINDED WIFE.--Happily, as tens of thousands of husbands can
testify, the pure-minded wife and mother is not carried away, as men are
liable to be, with the force of animal passion. Were it not so, the
tendencies to licentiousness in many sons would be stronger than they are.
In the vast majority of cases suggestion is never made except by the
husband, and it is a matter of deepest gratitude and consideration, that
the true wife may become a real helpmeet in restraining this desire in the
husband.

8. YOUNG WIFE AND CHILDREN.--We often hear it stated that a young wife has
her children quickly. This cannot happen to the majority of women without
injury to health and jeopardy to life. The law which rendered it imperative
for the land to lie fallow in order to rest and gain renewed strength, is
only another illustration of the unity which pervades physical conditions
everywhere. It should be known that if a mother nurses her own babe, and
the child is not weaned until it is nine or ten months old, the mother,
except in rare cases, will not become enceinte again, though cohabitation
with the husband takes place.

9. SELFISH AND UNNATURAL CONDUCT.--It is natural and rational that a mother
should feed her own children; in the selfish and unnatural conduct of many
mothers, who, to avoid the self-denial and patience which are required,
hand the little one over to the wet-nurse, or to be brought up by hand, is
found in many cases the cause and reason of the unnatural haste of
child-bearing. Mothers need to be taught that the laws of nature cannot be
broken without penalty. For every woman whose health has been weakened
through nursing her child, a hundred have lost strength and health through
marital excesses. The haste of h