Part 153 (2/2)
Oh, no, they won't.
How do you know they won't?
Because that kind of man will not succeed in getting that kind of woman to depend on when women are wiser.
What's to prevent the man from becoming a burden on her afterward?
The marriage contract.
You propose a new kind of marriage contract, do you?
Why not? Marriages may be made in Heaven, but the contract is drawn up by mere men. These--and some women to help them--may easily make a better one. Why not?
BOYS WILL BE BOYS
”Boys will be boys,” and boys have had their day; Boy-mischief and boy-carelessness and noise Extenuated all, allowed, excused and smoothed away, Each duty missed, each damaging wild act, By this meek statement of unquestioned fact-- Boys will be boys!
”Now, women will be women.” Mark the change; Calm motherhood in place of boisterous youth; No warfare now; to manage and arrange, To nurture with wise care, is woman's way, In peace and fruitful industry her sway.
In love and truth.
MANY WINDOWS
Many minds are many windows, Varied are their views; Each of us, if lonely, knows Only what one window shows-- Can no further choose.
Many minds are many windows, One the light divine, We may freely move and range, Wide our windows may exchange,-- Come and look through mine!
COMMENT AND REVIEW
Lavina L. Dock is a trained nurse of long and wide experience in more than one country. She is the author of ”A Text Book of Materia Medica for Nurses,” now in its fourth edition, revised and enlarged, and, in collaboration with M. D. Nutting, R.N., of ”The History of Nursing,” in two volumes.
Miss Dock's present book, ”Hygiene and Morality,” is of far wider appeal than either of the former works. The t.i.tle is a good one, for it links two aspects of one subject, and presents the new case without ignoring the old one.
The work deals in the main, in plain, simple moderate language, with the pathological aspects of what is called ”the social evil”; laying stress not so much upon the moral danger, long known, as on the physical danger, to which we are but just awakening.
The first part gives clear descriptions of the venereal diseases, now known to be caused by specific germs; and to be both infectious and contagious in the highest degree; giving statistics as to their prevalence.
The general estimate, in syphilis, she quotes as from five to eighteen per cent of the population, varying in the different countries. Taking the most modest estimate for ours, and allowing our population at 80,000,000--this would give us an army of 4,000,000 syphilitics at large among us--unknown to the public.
Say they had leprosy, or cholera, or smallpox, and imagine our horror; yet these diseases are not comparable in their terrible consequences; not only to the victims, but to their children and grandchildren.
In gonorrhoea, a cause of sterility, blindness of babies, and all manner of surgical operations and ”diseases peculiar to women,” so common among innocent wives, Miss Dock shows us that European records give about seventy-five per cent of men as infected. In America things are better, a conservative estimate giving the proportion of our men having either syphilis or gonorrhoea as about sixty per cent.
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