Health During Pregnancy May Have Effect Upon Child's
General Health.
XLVIII. ADVICE TO THE MARRIED AND THOSE ABOUT TO BE 336
Marriage as an Ideal Institution--Monogamic Marriage--Some
Reasons for Husbands' Deviations--Importance of First Few
Weeks of Married Life--Necessity for Understanding at
Beginning--Preventing and Breaking Habits--The Wife's
Individuality--Husbands Who are Childish, Not Vicious--
Wife's Interest in Husband's Affairs--The "Slob" Husband--
The Well-groomed Husband--Bad Odor from the Mouth--Odors
from Other Parts of the Body--Treatment for Bad Odor from
Perspiration--A Beneficial Powder--Advice Regarding
Flirting--Dainty Underwear--Fine External Clothes and Cheap
and Soiled Underwear--Delicate Adjustments of Sex Act
Required with Some Men--Wife Who Discusses Her Husband's
Foibles--A Professional Secret--A Case of Temporary
Impotence--The Wife's Indiscretion--The Disastrous Result--A
Big Stomach--The Wife's Attitude Towards the Marital
Relation--Behavior Preliminary to and During the Act--
Congenital Frigidity--Prudish and Vicious Ideas About the
Sex Act--Sexual Intercourse for Procreative Purposes
Only--Fear of Pregnancy on the Part of the Wife--The
Remedy--Other Causes--Wife who Makes too Frequent Demands--
Sacrificing the Future to the Present--Esthetic Considerations.
XLXIX. A RATIONAL DIVORCE SYSTEM 356
A Rational Divorce System--Storms and Squalls--Two Sides of the
Divorce Question--Outside Help and Marital Tangles--A
Husband who was a Paragon of Virtue--The Case of the Sweet
Wife--The Proper Untangling of Domestic Tangles.
L. WHAT IS LOVE? 361
Is Love Definable?--Raising a Corner of the Veil--Two Opinions
of Love--The First Opinion: Sexual Intercourse and Love--The
Second Opinion--The Grain of Truth in Each--The Truth
Concerning Love--Foundation of Love--Sexual Attraction and
Love--The Frigid Woman and Her Husband--Puzzling Cases of
Love--The Paradox--Blindness of Love and the Penetrating
Vision of Love--Limits of Homeliness--Physical Aversion and
Genesis of Love--Mating in the Animal Kingdom--Mating in Low
Races--Love in People of High Culture--Difference in Love of
Savage and Man of Culture--Distinctions Between
Loves--Varieties of Love and Va
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