in. In quite a considerable percentage of all
males, circumcision is an absolute necessity. For excellent medical
reasons, about which your family physician can inform you, every boy
should be circumcised.

CHAPTER XIV

A MOTHER'S DUTY TO HER DAUGHTER

What a Mother Should Tell Her Little Girl--Where Do Babies Come
From--How Baby Birds and Fish Come from Eggs--How Other Animals
Have Little Nests of Their Own--The Duty of Mothers to Instruct
and Direct--What a Mother Should Tell Her Daughter--Every
Mother Should Regard This Duty as Sacred--Every Female Child is
a Possible Future Mother--Motherhood the Highest Function of
the Sex--Health the One Necessary Essential--Symptoms of the
First, or Beginning Menstruation--The Period of Puberty in the
Female--Changes in the Reproductive Organs at Puberty--The
Female Generative Organs--The Function of the Reproductive
Organs--The Age of Puberty in the Female--The Function of the
Ovary--The Function of the Womb--Why Menstruation Occurs Every
Twenty-eight Days--The Male or Papa Egg--The Function of the
Spermatozoa--"Tell the Whole Story"--"How do These Spermatozoa
Get There"--The Union of the Species--"How Can a Baby Live in
There for Such a Long Time"--How the Baby Gets its Nourishment
in the Womb--Girls Must Not Become Mothers.

WHAT A MOTHER SHOULD TELL HER LITTLE GIRL.--Every little girl should be
told the Story of Life by her mother. It should be told in simple
language, so that the little girl will understand. Very early in life
the little girl will be prompted to inquire of her mother "Where do
babies come from?" It is wrong to give an evasive reply to this natural
inquiry or to postpone telling the story, because they will be told it
by playmates and will receive very wrong and very crude impressions of
this wonderful subject.

Every mother knows enough of life to tell her little girl its story in a
way that will impress her with the sacredness of God's beautiful
reproductive plan. She should begin by telling her a story about how the
birds live. How at a certain season of the year they choose a mate and
go housekeeping. They build a nest, and when it is all nicely finished,
the mother bird lays her eggs. Then the papa and mamma bird take turns
and sit on the eggs to keep them warm, and after a time the egg breaks
and a little bird is born into the world. They feed the little b