By courtesy of The New York Times
New York's Better Baby

Little Hiss Johanna Wiggers, who won the first prize in New York'sBetter Babies Contest by scoring 100 points, is the type of little girl thatwill make the best mothers, and the better race tomorrow. Her score cardshowed; age, 28 months; weight, 33 lbs. 14 ozs.; height, 35-1/2 inches;circumference of head, 19-1/2 inches: circumference of chest, 20 inches;lateral diameter of chest, 6 inches; diameter of chest from front to back,4-1/2 inches; length of arm to tip of middle finger, 14-1/2 inches; length ofleg to the sole of the foot, 16-1/2 inches; total, 100 points.

The Eugenic Marriage

A Personal Guide to theNew Science of BetterLiving and Better Babies

By W. GRANT HAGUE, M. D.

College of Physicians and Surgeons (ColumbiaUniversity), New York; Member of County MedicalSociety, and of the American Medical Association

In Four Volumes

VOLUME II

New York

THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY

1914

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Sex Hygiene for the Boy

CHAPTER XII

BUILDING OUR BOYS

A word to parents—Interest in sex hygiene—The "SocialEvil"—Ten millions suffering with venereal diseases inthe United States—Immorality not confined to large cities—Venerealdiseases common in country places—What arethe consequences of venereal disease to the boy?—Gonorrhea,or clap—Symptoms of gonorrhea in the male—Complicationsof gonorrhea—Syphilis, or the "pox"—Howsyphilis is acquired—Syphilis attacks every organ inthe body—Not possible to tell when cured—The chancre—Systematic,or constitutional symptoms—Mucouspatches and ulcers—Syphilis of the blood vessels andlymphatic glands—The interior organs—Brain and spinalcord—The nose, eye, ear, throat—Hair and nails—Whatthe boy with venereal disease may cause in others—Theinfected wife—A girl's fate when she marries—Youngwife rendered sterile—Young wife made to miscarry—Isthe husband to blame—Building the man—Age of puberty—"InternalSecretion" Page 139

CHAPTER XIII

THE PARENTS AND THE BOY

Abuse of the procreative function—The continent life—Providethe environment necessary to the clean life—Theperiod of procreative power—Self-abuse—Masturbation—Treatmentof masturbation—Night losses or wetdreams—Causes of night emissions—Sexual excesses—Treatmentof sexual excesses—What parents shouldknow about the so-called "social evil" before speakingwith authority to the boy—The need of enlightenment insexual matters—"No one told me, I did not know"—Fakemedical treatment of venereal diseases—Sowing wild oats—Shouldcircumcision be advised Page 153

Sex Hygiene for the Girl

CHAPTER XIV

A MOTHER'S DUTY TO HER DAUGHTER

What a mother should tell her little girl—Where do babiescome from—How baby birds and fish come from eggs—Howother animals have little nests of their own—Theduty of mothers to instruct and direct—What amother should tell her daughter—Every mother should...