lie around her."

Pure Books on Avoided Subjects

_Books for Men_

_By Sylvanus Stall, D.D._

"What a Young Boy Ought to Know."
"What a Young Man Ought to Know."
"What a Young Husband Ought to Know."
"What a Man of 45 Ought to Know."

_Books for Women_

_By Mrs. Mary Wood-Allen, M.D.
And Mrs. Emma F.A. Drake, M.D._

"What a Young Girl Ought to Know."
"What a Young Woman Ought to Know."
"What a Young Wife Ought to Know."
"What a Woman of 45 Ought to Know."

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[Illustration: MRS. MARY WOOD-ALLEN, M.D.]

NEW REVISED EDITION

_Self and Sex Series_

WHAT A YOUNG
WOMAN
OUGHT TO KNOW

BY
MRS. MARY WOOD-ALLEN, M.D.

National Superintendent of the Purity
Department Woman's Christian Temperance
Union; Author of "What a Young Girl
Ought to Know," "Marvels of Our Bodily
Dwelling," "Child Confidence Rewarded,"
"Teaching Truth," "Almost a Man,"
"Almost a Woman."

[Illustration]

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COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY SYLVANUS STALL

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Copyright, 1889, by SYLVANUS STALL
Copyright, 1905, by SYLVANUS STALL

TO
THE DAUGHTER DEAR,
WHOSE INTIMATE AND CONFIDENTIAL COMPANIONSHIP FROM
CHILDHOOD TO WOMANHOOD HAS MADE IT POSSIBLE
FOR ME TO FEEL A SYMPATHETIC INTEREST IN
THE LIFE-PROBLEMS OF ALL GIRLS, THIS
BOOK IS MOST LOVINGLY
DEDICATED
BY HER
MOTHER

CONTENTS.

PART I.

CHAPTER I.

WHAT ARE YOU WORTH?
PAGE

The first great lesson to learn, your own importance--Probably
twelve mill