6.  HEALTH A LEGACY.—­It is no small legacy to be endowed with perfect health.  In begetting children comparatively few people seem to think that any care of concern is necessary to insure against ill-health or poverty of mind.  How strange our carelessness and unconcern when these are the groundwork of all comfort and success!  How few faces and forms we see which give sign of perfect health.  It is just as reasonable to suppose that men and women can squander their fortune and still have it left to bequeath to their children, as that parents can violate organic laws and still retain their own strength and activity.

7.  RESPONSIBILITY OF PARENTS.—­Selden H. Tascott says:  “Ungoverned passions in the parents may unloose the furies of unrestrained madness in the minds of their children.  Even untempered religious enthusiasm may beget a fanaticism that can not be restrained within the limits of reason.”

In view of the preceding statements, what a responsibility rests upon the parents!  No step in the process of parentage is unimportant.  From the lovers first thought of marriage to the birth of the child, every step of the way should be paved with the snow-white blossoms of pure thought.  Kindly words and deeds should bind the prospective parents more closely together.  Not mine and thine, but ours, should be the bond of sympathy.  Each should be chaste in thought and word and deed as was Sir Galahad, who went in search of the Holy Grail, saying: 

  “My strength is as the strength of ten,
  Because my heart is pure.”

[Illustration:  DR. HALL’S SYRINGE.  No. 1 Gives a Whirling Spray and No. 2 Also Whirling Spray.

Price of No. 1 is $1.50 and of No. 2, $3.00.  To readers of this book the publishers will send No. 1 for $1.20 and No. 2 for $2.25 postpaid.  Dr. Hall’s is larger and made of highest grade red rubber and its action is very effective.]

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VAGINAL CLEANLINESS.

1.  The above syringes are highly recommended by physicians as vaginal cleansers.  They will be found a great relief in health or sickness, and in many cases cure barrenness or other diseases of the womb.

2.  CLEANLINESS.—­Cleanliness is next to godliness.  Without cleanliness the human body is more or less defiled and repulsive.  A hint to the wise is sufficient.  The vagina should be cleansed with the same faithfulness as any other portion of the body.

3.  TEMPERATURE OF THE WATER.—­Those not accustomed to use vaginal injections would do well to use water milk-warm at the commencement; after this the temperature may be varied according to circumstances.  In case of local inflammation use hot water.  The indiscriminate use of cold water injections will be found rather injurious than beneficial, and a woman in feeble health will always find warm water invigorating and preferable.

4.  LEUCORRHOEA.—­In case of persistent leucorrhoea use the temperature of water from seventy-two to eighty-five degrees Fahrenheit.