ne woman, "if my husband is bald and cross-eyed,
he has a heart of gold."

True love is not blind, but with a deep, keen insight looks through
the encasing garment of human imperfections, and sees within the
divine ego, and because it recognizes the true inner self that is
worthy, hopeth all things, believeth all things, endureth all things,
and never faileth.

THE END.

Offices _of_ Publication

# IN THE UNITED STATES. The
Vir Publishing Company, 200-214
N. Fifteenth St., Philadelphia, Pa.

# IN ENGLAND. The Vir Publishing
Company, 4 Imperial B'l'd'g's,
Ludgate Circus, London, E.C.

# IN CANADA. Ryerson Press,
Cor. Queen and John Sts. Toronto,
Ontario.

"What a Young Girl Ought to Know."

BY MRS. MARY WOOD-ALLEN, M.D.

Condensed Table of Contents

PART I

The origin of life--One plan in all forms of life--How plants
grow from the seed--They feed on the soil, grow and
mature--How the plant reproduces itself--The flower, the
pollen, the pod, the seed--The office of bees and insects in
fertilization.

PART II

Fishes and their young--The parent fishes and the baby
fishes--The seeds of plants and eggs of fishes, birds and
animals--How fishes never know their baby offspring--Warm
blooded animals--Lessons from birds--Their nests, eggs and
little ones.

PART III

Animals and their young--The place which God has prepared for
their young--Beginning their independent life--Human babies
the most helpless and dependent of all creatures--The
relations of parent and child--The child a part of each
parent--Heredity and its lessons.

PART IV

The value of good health--The care of the body--The body a
temple to be kept holy--Girls should receive their instruction
from their mothers--The body the garment which the soul
wears--Effects of thoughts upon life and character--Value of
good companions, good books and good influences--What it is to
become a woman.

"What a Young Girl Ought to Know"

WHAT EMINENT PEOPLE SAY

Francis E. Willard, LL.D.

"I do earnestly hope that this book, founded on a strictly
scientific but not forgetting a strong ethical basis, may be
well known and widely read by the dear girls in their teens
and the young women in their homes."

Mrs. Elizabeth B. Grannis

"These facts ought to be judiciously brought to the
intellige