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Every Girl's Book By: George Frank Butler (1857-1921) |
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EVERY GIRL'S BOOK BY GEORGE F. BUTLER, M. D. 1912 THE ABBOTT PRESS RAVENSWOOD CHICAGO
Copyright 1912 THE ABBOTT PRESS CHICAGO
PUBLISHER'S NOTES This is the second of a series of books on "How to Live," by Dr.
George F. Butler. These books range from childhood to old age. The boy
and the girl, the young man and young woman, the young husband and
young wife, middle aged people, and old people are instructed in these
books in matters of the utmost importance to their health and
happiness. The first in this series was "Every Boy's Book." These two
books are especially intended for boys and girls from ten to fourteen
years of age, but every father and mother should read them, so they,
too, can know the truth about these great sex facts, and be prepared
to answer children's questions now sometimes troublesome.
CONTENTS Chapter Page
I. How the Story Began 1
II. What the Bee Wanted of Elsie's Nose 10
III. The Husbands and Wives of Plants 21
IV. The Papa and Mamma Parts of the Plants 34
V. The First Life on Earth 43
VI. Where Baby Animals Come From 54
VII. Where Baby Girls Come From 62
PREFACE The greatest duty of mankind lies in the proper uprearing of our
children. The fact is recognized, but is the duty fulfilled?
Do we rear our children as we should? There is but one answer:
We fail. Teaching them many things for their good, we yet keep
from them ignorantly, foolishly, with a hesitancy and neglect
unpardonable knowledge, the possession of which is essential for
their future welfare. The first necessity for well being is a healthy mind in a healthy
body. We can give our children that, if we will, by teaching them all
about the body, its source of life, its different functions, and its
care. The child should grow to maturity knowing that the human body
is something fine, something that accomplishes good, something to be
proud of in every way. Above all should the child be taught all
concerning the process of reproduction, just as it is taught the
action of the stomach or of the brain. By so doing, we can produce a
better and healthier and happier generation to follow ours. By what
strange and mistaken impulse in the past such absolutely required
teaching has been so studiously withheld is beyond all comprehension. We want the best for our children. We want them to grow up with right
thoughts and habits, yet we keep from them the knowledge without which
their thoughts and habits will surely be imperiled when there arises
in them the generative instinct, which has its effect upon both male
and female youth alike. We give them no information as to sexual matters; and, when it comes
to them, it is too often but in the way of half truths, mysterious,
exciting to the imagination, and dangerous. Yet how simple and natural the giving of this information might be
made; and how easily the child might be safeguarded! Mankind has
demands which must be gratified. We have hunger; we have thirst; we
have the impulse of reproduction. Each is right and natural. There
should be no difference in the consideration of either of these wants.
All about them the child should be taught, from the beginning, so that
all will be natural and right and commonplace and a matter of course
long before the age is reached when the sexual instinct is developed. Is not this reason? Is it not healthful, logical, common sense? Is it
not the wholesome and right and proper view? Nature is devoted to reproduction. From the cell to the flower, and so
on upward, the creatures of the world are but renewing themselves, and
the learning of this is the greatest and most beautiful of all
studies. All this the child can be taught. Elementary biology, or the study of subjects of what we call zoology
and botany combined, can be made the most attractive of studies to any
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