: What a Young Wife Ought to Know by Drake Emma F Angell Emma Frances Angell - Women Health and hygiene; Marriage; Infants Care

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INTELLIGENCE OF THE YOUNG WIFE.

Out of girlhood into wifehood.--The setting up of a new home.--Woman's exalted place.--Earlier influences.--Importance of intelligence.--Woman fitted by creator for wifehood and motherhood.--The position of reproductive organs in the body.--Dangers of crowding contents of abdomen.--What all young wives need to know.--Premium previously set upon ignorance.--Heredity.--Failures and successes of our ancestors.--Faults and virtues transmitted through heredity, 21-35

HOME AND DRESS.

Preparations for successful home-makers.--The importance of sensible dress.--An opportunity for reform.--The conditions of attractive dress.--A question of healthfulness.--What wives need to know concerning dress.--The kind to be avoided.--Injurious dress destroying the race.--The ailments caused by wrong dressing.--The corset curse.--A summary of the evils of dress, 37-46

HEALTH OF THE YOUNG WIFE.

Health insures happiness.--Be ambitious for health.--The scarcity of perfectly healthy women.--Fashion to the Rescue.--The boon of health.--Necessity of ventilation and fresh air.--Duties to the home.--The greatness of woman's sphere.--In the society drift.--The extreme of wholly avoiding society.--Keeping in the middle of the road.--Pleasures and recreations taken together.--Taking time to keep young.--Mistakes which some husbands make.--Wrecks at the beginning of married life, 47-55

THE CHOICE OF A HUSBAND.

Higher standards are being set up in the choice of a husband.--Should be worthy of both love and respect.--Love likely to idealize the man.--The real characteristics necessary.--Deficiencies in character not to be supplied after marriage.--The right to demand purity.--Young men who "sow wild oats."--Importance of good health.--Weaknesses and diseases which descend from parents to children.--The parents' part in aiding to a wise choice.--The value of the physician's counsel.--One capable of supporting wife and children.--A dutiful son makes a good husband.--Essential requisites enumerated.--The father reproduced in his children.--The equivalents which the wife should bring to her husband, 57-64

WHAT SHALL A YOUNG WIFE EXPECT TO BE TO HER HUSBAND?

The young wife should seek to be her husband's equal, but not his counterpart.--The recognized centre of the home.--Woman's true greatness.--Man's helpmeet.--Mrs. Gladstone's part in her husband's greatness.--Should attract her husband from the club to the home.--Continuing to be attractive in dress and manners.--Should accept both wifehood and motherhood.--Should keep pace with his mental growth.--Guarding against improper use of literary clubs, reading circles, etc.--Solomon's picture of the model young wife.--A converted heathen's estimate of his Christian wife, 65-72

TROUSSEAU AND WEDDING PRESENTS.

Husband and wife ruined before their "crane is hung."--The foolish and ruinous display at weddings.--An illustration given.--How wedding presents lead to debt and unhappiness.--Living does not need much machinery.--Mistake of copying after people of large wealth.--Wise choice of furniture.--The best adornments for the home.--The trousseaux of our foremothers.--The need of simplicity.--Artificialities that make a veil between our souls and God, 73-78

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