aling ignorance of the past; that the
glorious strength of manhood has awakened and cast from you forever the
grinning skeleton of vice. Be your better self, proud that your thoughts in
the day-time are as pure as you could wish your dreams to be at night.

10. HELPS.--Do not use tobacco or liquor. They inflame the passions and
irritate the nervous system; they only gratify base appetites and never
rouse the higher feelings. Highly spiced food should be eschewed, not
chewed. Meat should be eaten sparingly, and never at the last meal.

11. DON'T EAT TOO MUCH.--If not engaged in hard physical labor, try eating
two meals a day. Never neglect the calls of nature, and if possible have a
passage from the bowels every night before retiring. When this is not done
the feces often drop into the rectum during sleep, producing heat which
extends to the sexual organs, causing the lascivious dreams and emission.
This will be noticed especially in the morning, when the feces usually
distend {463} the rectum and the person nearly always awakes with sexual
passions aroused. If necessary, use injections into the rectum of from one
to two quarts of water, blood heat, two or three times a week. Be sure to
keep clean and see to it that no matter collects under the foreskin. Wash
off the organ every night and take a quick, cold hand-bath every morning.
Have something to do. Never be idle. Idleness always worships at the shrine
of passion.

12. THE WORST TIME OF ALL.--Many are ruined by allowing their thoughts to
run riot in the morning. Owing to the passions being roused as stated
above, the young man lies half awake and half dozing, rousing his passions
and reveling in lascivious thought for hours perhaps, thus completely
sapping the fountains of purity, establishing habits of vice that will bind
him with iron bands, and doing his physical system more injury than if he
had practiced self-abuse, and had the emission in a few minutes. Jump out
of bed at once on waking, and never allow the thought to master you.

13. A HAND BATH.--A hand bath in cold water every morning will diminish
those rampant sexual cravings, that crazy, burning, lustful desire so
sensualizing to men by millions; lessen prostitution by toning down that
passion which alone patronizes it, and relieve wives by the millions of
those excessive conjugal demands which ruin their sexual health; besides
souring their tempers, and then demanding millions of money for resultant
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