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36 and Nature created these periods as a protection against these excesses. (See chapter on Why Marriage sometimes Wrecks.)

Though deplorable, it is nevertheless a fact that because of the unnatural conditions, corsets, long shirts, etc., etc., which contaminate and deteriorate the bodies of growing girls, but few of them grow into normal womanhood, possessors of the superfine instinct so necessary for their own and their life-partner's protection against such serious excesses.

"At times, while under the infatuation and blinding influences of courtship, a young man who fully realizes the physical infirmities of the young woman with whom he is keeping company, will excuse all her aches and ills, and, under the delusion that it will be a pleasure to nurse her in her sickness and minister to her many infirmities, deliberately decide upon marriage. If you are in love with such a young woman, you cannot possibly be more cruel to her than to marry her. Let her condition appeal to your mercy,