f skin indicates condition of
digestive organs--Pimples--Constipation--Thermal bath--Foot
bath--Time to bathe--Daily baths--The use of
soaps--Wrinkles--Care of the hands 77

PART II.

CHAPTER X.

CREATIVE POWER.

We have Godlike powers: reason, imagination, conferring
life--Organs of individual life same in both
sexes--Differences between the sexes in size--Dignity of man 87

CHAPTER XI.

BUILDING BRAINS.

Babies born deaf, dumb, blind and helpless--The activities of
the baby build its brains--Our brains develop through
cultivation of the senses--Certain areas of brain govern
certain movements of body--Can learn how to build up any part
of brain--Professor Gates' experiments in training
dogs--Creation of habits--Effects of malevolent passions, such
as anger, worry, etc. 93

CHAPTER XII.

YOU ARE MORE THAN BODY OR MIND.

You are neither body nor mind, you are spirit--Your
relationship to God--God's obligation to us--Our obligation to
Him--God's school--His method of teaching us. 99

CHAPTER XIII.

SPECIAL PHYSIOLOGY.

Differences between boys and girls--Boys need our
sympathy--The crisis in the girl's life--Sex in
mind--Description of the sex organs 105

CHAPTER XIV.

BECOMING A WOMAN.

All life from an egg--The human egg--Menstruation--Girls may
injure themselves through ignorance--Value of sex. 113

CHAPTER XV.

ARTIFICIALITIES OF CIVILIZED LIFE.

Menstruation should be painless--Dr. Mary Jacobi's
opinion--Dr. Emmett on the artificial life of young women. 119

CHAPTER XVI.

SOME CAUSES OF PAINFUL MENSTRUATION.

Woman not necessarily a semi-invalid--Effects of wrong
clothing on the young girl--Evils of novel reading--Evils of
constipation--Congestions produced by displacements--Serious
results of abdominal displacements--Value of abdominal
bandage--How to make one--How to wear it--Effects of wrong
attitude--Standing on one foot--Correct attitude. 123

CHAPTER XVII.

FEMALE DISEASES.

Displacements of uterus--Leucorrhea--Patent medicines--Honest
physicians--Sitz baths for reducing congestions--Age at which
menstruation first appears--Non-menstruation and
consumption--Mechanical hindrances to menstruation--
Suppression--Scanty flow--Profuse flow--Treatment. 135

CHAPTER XVIII.

CARE DU