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100 tight-laced waists as you would a scorpion, for though they may not sting you at the time, you may live to see the day when you will wish they had, for death is far preferable to life under some conditions, and one of these conditions is unquestionably that of being harried by marital miseries.

"Perhaps it is not putting it too strongly when we say that one-third of the great mass of young women are unqualified ever to become wives or mothers, because of false education and inherited or acquired infirmities. From one-half to two-thirds of all our married women suffer from some form of womb-trouble. Young girls, who are wholly ignorant of the delicate texture of their sexual organism, and without dreaming of the serious consequences which are to follow, contract their waists, and thus crowed the contents of the entire abdominal cavity below what is a natural position. By this means the womb is forced out of its desig- nated place, and when the strain is continued,