much can be done through mothers' meetings and
through individual instruction of parents, the most effective means of
improving the general attitude towards sex health is to give the simple
truth to the millions of children who have not yet left school. Armed
with the A B C's of sex hygiene at school, boys and girls will be
prepared to select employment, associates, and newspapers that will
permit normal, healthy sex development. Men and women who are leading
normal lives, who have plenty of work, sleep, fresh air, nourishing
food, amusement, and exercise are unlikely to be sexually abnormal.

After all, the question of instruction in sex hygiene will quickly
settle itself when it is made a condition of a teacher's certificate
that the applicant shall himself or herself know the personal and
social reasons for sex health. The woman who does not know how to take
care of her own sex health, the man who is ignorant of a woman's
special needs, cannot do justice to the requirements of arithmetic,
language, and discipline. Whether men and women teachers are mentally,
physically, and morally equipped to be sexually normal and to teach the
law of sex health will be disclosed as soon as trustees and
superintendent dare to ask the necessary questions. Whether an
instructor's personality will enable him to fill the minds of children
with interests more wholesome, more absorbing than obscene stories or
morbid sex curiosity can also be learned. When school-teachers are
prepared to teach the social and economic aspects of general health
they will quickly solve the problem of instruction in sex health.

Just one word about country morality. It is customary to deplore the
influence of large cities on the young. Of late, however, there has
been a tendency to question whether, after all, sex morality is apt to
be higher in the country than in the city. Parents and teachers in
small towns and in rural districts will do well to take an inventory of
the influences surrounding their children. It will always be impossible
to give country children city diversions. One great disadvantage of
country children frequently counter-acts the beneficial influence of
out-of-door living; namely, isolation. The city child is practically
always in or about to be in the sight of, if not in the presence of,
other people. Numbers and close contact with people, though they be
strangers, mean restraint and pervading social conscience. City
children find it di