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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Almost A Man, by Mary Wood-Allen
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+Title: Almost A Man
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+Author: Mary Wood-Allen
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+  ALMOST A MAN.
+
+  BY
+  MARY WOOD-ALLEN, M. D.
+
+  Author of TEACHING TRUTH, CHILD-CONFIDENCE REWARDED, THE
+  MAN WONDERFUL IN THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, etc.
+
+
+    "What is man that thou art mindful of him?"
+                                         DAVID.
+
+    "Every true man is a cause, a country and an age."
+                                              EMERSON.
+
+        "God on thee
+    Abundantly his gifts hath also poured;
+      Inward and outward both his image fair."
+                                       MILTON.
+
+
+  PUBLISHED BY
+  WOOD-ALLEN PUBLISHING CO.
+  ANN ARBOR, MICH.
+
+
+  COPYRIGHTED BY
+  MARY WOOD-ALLEN, M. D.
+  1895.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+                                                                  PAGE
+  Prelude                                                          iii
+  Almost a Man                                                       5
+  A Gateway and a Gift                                              22
+  The White Cross                                                   40
+
+
+
+
+PRELUDE.
+
+
+Two lads had crossed the sunny meadow-land of childhood and stood by the
+gate, at the entrance to the rougher paths of youth leading up to the
+grander heights of maturity. They glanced backward, but not with regret,
+for their eyes shone with eagerness to climb the upward way. As they
+waited, an angel came bearing a gift for each, which he gave them,
+saying: "I have brought you a wondrous gift, not for yourselves but for
+others. Listen."
+
+And they bent their heads and listened. And one said: "I hear most
+entrancing music. It thrills my very being. It is for me, for me."
+
+But the angel said: "Listen again. Shut your ears to those bewildering
+tones and you will hear a deeper, holier strain."
+
+But the youth said: "No, I hear only that melody which speaks to my own
+heart. I can hear nothing else."
+
+The other youth too took the gift and, bending his head at the command
+of the angel, said: "I hear that sweet entrancing strain which speaks to
+myself, and which promises me pleasure; but deeper than all that I hear
+a tone soft, sweet and low, that sounds like the voices of happy
+children, and of a mother singing to her babe."
+
+The angel smiled. "It is for them," he said, "that you must keep your
+gift. And in the years to come that music will be to you the sweetest in
+the world."
+
+So the youths started on their devious ways through the hilly land of
+youth. There were bird-songs and flowers; there were bright paths, and
+dark ones; there were sunny by-paths, which ended in dreamy forests;
+there were pitfalls in unexpected places; there was often sorrow where
+they looked for joy, and failure where they expected success. And the
+one listened oft to the entrancing music of his angelic gift, and was
+led to think only of himself, and his eye lost its fire, his feet often
+stumbled, and the days and nights had no pleasure for him. As he reached
+the heights of maturity he was met by a bright creature who laughed with
+great joy when he offered her his love and said exultantly: "I have kept
+myself pure for you," and he, knowing his own dark secrets, could make
+no reply but hung his head and was silent. And, thus silent, he heard no
+more the bewildering music of his youth, but instead there came to his
+ears the sound of a broken-hearted woman's sobs, and the weeping of
+children mourning the birthright that had been lost for them in their
+father's wayward youth. And the man said sighingly:
+
+    "O that I had my innocence again
+    My untouched honor. But I wish in vain."
+
+But the other lad turned a deaf ear to the brain-bewildering music and
+listened with his soul for the happy melodies of the future. And his eye
+grew brighter and his strength increased and his paths were straight and
+clean, and as he neared the heights of maturity he was met by one whose
+robe was shining in its brightness and who whispered: "I have kept
+myself pure for you."
+
+And gladly he answered: "And I for you;" and so their lives became one,
+and the melody of happy children's voices drew nearer and nearer, and
+listening to the sweet voice of the mother singing to her babe, and
+looking into the bright and rosy faces that with every glance and motion
+thanked him for their dower of health and honor, he blessed the great
+Creator from whom he had received the wondrous gift of potential
+fatherhood, and gave thanks that he had wisely listened to the angel's
+voice bidding him keep his gift for those whose life, in the years to
+come, was to be his holiest possession.
+
+
+
+
+ALMOST A MAN.
+
+By Mary Wood-Allen, M. D.
+
+
+"Let me take your book of quotations, please."
+
+"Certainly, if I can find it. O, I remember. I let Susie Glenn take it.
+No doubt I can find it in her desk."
+
+As she spoke Miss Bell walked to the desk and, finding the desired book,
+took possession of it. An open note dropped from it and fell upon the
+floor. Picking it up Miss Bell read: "My darling little sweetheart," and
+glancing at the close saw the signature, "Carl." Sending of notes in
+school was forbidden, therefore Miss Bell had no compunction of
+conscience in taking possession of this one, and, on the impulse of the
+moment, read it aloud to Miss Lane, her fellow-teacher. It was not only
+sentimental in tone but there were mysterious phrases which seemed to
+hold a deep and sinful significance. The women looked at each other with
+sorrowful faces.
+
+"What shall I do about it?" asked Miss Bell.
+
+"What a depth of wickedness it reveals!" exclaimed Miss Lane. "Who would
+have imagined that such a nice appearing boy as Carl Woodford could be
+so base? And Susie Glenn too, such a shy, modest little creature as she
+seems."
+
+"Do you suppose it is really as bad as it seems to us? Those expressions
+which appear to indicate such--such almost criminal intimacy perhaps
+they do not understand fully."
+
+"Don't you believe it," said Miss Lane. "I tell you these children are
+wiser in sin than we older people can imagine. That boy needs to be
+whipped within an inch of his life, the little reprobate! I'd give him
+such a lecture as would make his eyes open wide for once. I'd make him
+understand that he'd better not let me catch him in such mischief again.
+And I'd tell Mrs. Glenn about it so that she could punish Susie."
+
+"I really am afraid that the result would not be what we wish. Suppose
+we go and talk it over with Dr. Barrett. Maybe she can tell us what to
+do."
+
+Dr. Barrett received the ladies with cordiality and professed herself
+willing to aid them in the solution of their problem. She did not appear
+as shocked as they did, and even smiled a little as Miss Lane, in
+indignant tones, read aloud the offending note.
+
+"Don't you think that little rascal should be nearly annihilated?" she
+asked, turning to the Doctor.
+
+"I think he should be instructed," replied the latter. "Will you send
+him to me, Miss Bell?"
+
+"Most gladly, but I don't believe he will come."
+
+"Yes he will, if you don't frighten him beforehand. Don't say a word to
+him about the affair, but send him with a note to me and tell him to
+wait for an answer."
+
+The next evening Carl appeared at the Doctor's residence with the note
+from Miss Bell. "I am to wait for an answer," he said.
+
+Dr. Barrett only nodded as she wrote on steadily for a moment, seeming
+too much engrossed in her work to notice him. Then she read the note,
+thought a moment, excused herself and left the room. Returning
+immediately she said, "It will be half an hour before the answer is
+ready. Can you wait?"
+
+"O certainly."
+
+"Then sit down here and look over the Youth's Companion while I finish
+my letter."
+
+For some moments there was silence and then the Doctor, laying down her
+pen, turned to the boy and said, pleasantly; "You are Carl Woodford, are
+you not?"
+
+"Yes, ma'am."
+
+"It has been so long since I saw you that you have almost grown out of
+my knowledge. You are getting to be almost a man. You must be fifteen
+years old."
+
+"Not quite. I will be next June."
+
+"Almost a man," said Dr. Barrett softly as she looked thoughtfully into
+the fire. After a moment's silence she asked, "Carl, what is it to be a
+man?"
+
+The boy drew himself up with a self-conscious air as he replied.
+
+"Why, to have your growth, and get into business for yourself."
+
+"Well, that is not quite it," said the Doctor smiling, "for I have my
+growth and am in business for myself, and yet I am not a man."
+
+"Maybe it means having a mustache," said Carl, with a slight flush.
+
+"That has something to do with it certainly, but Mrs. Flynn has a
+mustache, and she is not a man."
+
+"Well, I don't know how to explain it then," said Carl.
+
+"You have studied grammar, will you parse the word man?"
+
+"Man is a common noun, masculine gender, third----"
+
+"What does masculine gender mean?"
+
+"It means male."
+
+"Then to be a man means to be a male. How does the grammar define
+gender?"
+
+"The distinction of nouns with regard to sex."
+
+"Have you studied physiology?"
+
+"Yes'm."
+
+"Was it the physiology of man or woman?"
+
+"Why, it didn't say anything but physiology."
+
+"You studied, then, only those organs in which men and women are alike,
+as in their muscular and nervous systems, and in the organs of
+digestion; in fact you learned only of the organs which are for the
+preservation of the individual. You learned nothing of them in regard to
+sex, which is termed special physiology."
+
+A wave of color was creeping over Carl's face, seeing which the Doctor
+said:
+
+"As you have never studied this special physiology supposing you try to
+forget that any one has ever told you anything about it, and let us for
+a few minutes talk of it as of God's laws. We believe God to be pure,
+and we cannot believe that he would make a law that was founded on
+impurity. It is true we are able to think of his laws in an impure way,
+but that is our fault, not his. Let us now try to think his pure
+thoughts after him. If there are two sexes created by the Almighty he
+must have a pure purpose in creating them. We seldom think how much of
+beauty and melody and loveliness is due to sex.
+
+"It is because of sex that we are gathered in families and enjoy all the
+delights of home. It is because of sex that we have ties of kindred,
+brothers, sisters, father, mother, uncles, aunts and cousins. Think of
+the pleasant home gatherings at Christmas or Thanksgiving, or upon
+family birthdays, with all the relatives, old and young, meeting in love
+and sympathy; think of the sweet prattle of children in the home; think
+of the tender ministrations of mother or sister in times of sorrow or
+illness or death, and remember that these are possible because of sex.
+Men may build themselves fine club houses where they congregate to smoke
+or drink or eat together, but these are not homes. Women may go away by
+themselves into a convent and give up the world, but in so doing they
+give up the home; for in a real true home there must be parents and
+children, and this comes through sex. We may go even farther and say
+with Mr. Grant Allen that everything high and ennobling in our nature
+springs directly from the fact of sex. He claims that to it 'we owe our
+love of color, of graceful forms, of melodious sound, of rhythmical
+motion, the evolution of music, of poetry, of romance, of painting, of
+sculpture, of decorative art, of dramatic entertainment. From it,' he
+says, 'springs the love of beauty, around it all beautiful arts circle
+as their centre. Its subtle aroma pervades all literature, and to it we
+owe the heart and all that is best within it.'
+
+"We read of knights of old fighting for 'fayre ladye,' of heroes who
+died to save wives and children; we cannot take up a book of poetry
+without realizing how love of men and women has been the inspiration of
+the poet in all ages. And this is not all that we owe to sex. In all
+organic life we find the same force at work. The song of the nightingale
+is a call to his mate, the chirp of cricket, the song of the thrush, the
+note of the grasshopper, every charming voice in wild nature are notes
+of love, and were it not for these, field and forest would be silent.
+Among the animals we can trace the beauty of form and of covering to the
+same source. And even in the inanimate world of plants and trees we find
+sex as the source of life and beauty. The bright tinted flowers are the
+homes of the father and mother and babies of the plant and without the
+male and female principle in plants there would be no bud or blossom and
+no fruit. Remember when you see the beauty of the apple orchard in the
+spring and the glowing fruit in the autumn that these are the expression
+of sex-life in the tree."
+
+"My!" exclaimed Carl, "I never thought of all that before."
+
+"I presume not, and many who are older than you have no thoughts of sex
+but those which are low and vile. But when you consider how the same
+principle reaches through all nature, and upon it depends so much that
+is beautiful and charming you cannot believe that is in itself vile and
+unholy, can you? If we are to think God's thoughts after him we must
+come to look upon sex as something to be thought of and spoken of only
+with reverence, never to be jested about or debased in any way. You
+begin to see that more is involved in the coming into manhood than you
+had supposed. But we have not gone over the whole matter yet. You have
+read the first chapter of Genesis how that God made man in his own
+image, and out of the dust of the earth. We do not suppose that he made
+him out of dirt and water, as a child makes mud-pies, but we may accept
+this as a statement of the scientific fact that in man are found the
+same elements as in the earth, such as iron, soda, lime, etc. What we
+want to think of now is the statement that God created man by his direct
+power. Then we are told he made woman also. These are the first living
+human beings of whom we have record. Who is the third?"
+
+"Cain."
+
+"And who made Cain?"
+
+"God," answered Carl glibly, as if that must be the only orthodox
+answer.
+
+"In the same way that he made Adam and Eve?"
+
+Carl blushed and was silent.
+
+"You were not embarrassed when I spoke of the creation of Adam and Eve,
+you have no reason to be embarrassed when I speak of the creation of
+Cain. All was in accordance with the divine will, and must therefore be
+right. We cannot say positively that God thought this or that, but we
+have a right to judge from his acts what his purposes were. We have a
+right to suppose that he created the earth intending to people it with
+human beings. Of course every possible plan for doing this was open to
+him. He might have created each individual as he did Adam, but what
+would have been the result? We should have stood, each one alone, in
+selfish solitariness, like a lot of ten-pins, able to knock each other
+down but not to help each other up. Each one would have been thinking
+only of himself and his own selfish interests. This plan could not
+commend itself to a compassionate Creator, and we can imagine that he
+would say to himself: 'That would never do. I must put these, my
+children, in such relation to each other that they will have love for
+each other; that they will be bound by ties so strong that nothing can
+break them; they must be created in such a way that they will also
+understand their relation to me and love me as their life-giver. To do
+this I will share with them my greatest power, that of creation. I will
+let them help me people the world. By this creative power they shall
+come to understand how I, their heavenly Father, love them, and yearn
+over them, and by their dependence as children upon their parents they
+shall learn to depend upon and trust me.' From the plan God adopted for
+peopling the earth we may suppose this to have been his process of
+thought. So you see that sex comes as a wondrous gift from God, a gift
+endowed with a marvelous power, and therefore to be held most sacred.
+When I spoke of you as being almost a man it was with the thought that
+now is being conferred upon you this gift of sex."
+
+Carl looked up with some surprise. "Why, I have always been a boy."
+
+"True. And a boy is a being who will become a man. But he is not endowed
+with the functions of sex until he is about fourteen years old. Then sex
+begins to make itself felt in his whole being. He grows taller rapidly;
+he gains in breadth; he begins to see the long-looked-for mustache; he
+notices the growth of the special organs of sex; he begins to feel more
+manly; to enjoy the society of girls as never before; and desires to
+treat them with more attention. This is a time when, if he is wrongly
+taught, he may fall into great wrong-doing and injure himself, and not
+that alone, but those who are to come after him. I have not yet told you
+of the great responsibilities that come with this gift of sex."
+
+Dr. Barrett rose and, bringing a book from the shelves, opened it and
+showed Carl an illustration, saying; "Did you ever see such a picture as
+this?"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"What are they?" asked he. "They look like pollywogs."
+
+"As much like them as anything. But they are not pollywogs. They have a
+bigger sounding name than that. They are called _spermatozoa_, or each
+one is a _spermatozoon_. They are so tiny that they are not visible
+except with the aid of a microscope, and yet they are alive and very
+active. They live and move in a fluid called _semen_, and they are the
+living principle contributed by the male to the formation of a new
+creature. Each one contains in itself all the particular traits,
+characteristics or talents which the father would confer on the child of
+which this spermatozoon would form a part. You are like your father in
+some things, I suppose."
+
+"Yes, I am like papa in size and in my love for mathematics. He says I
+have his quick temper, too."
+
+"That leads me to speak of another fact. You see that you were a part of
+your father during his whole life, and you were affected by all that
+affected him. You were changed or modified by his habits. If he tried to
+curb his quick temper, it has made it easier for you to control
+yourself; but if he allowed it full sway, it has made it harder for you.
+If he were truthful and honest, it has made it easy for you to be the
+same; but if he were wild and dissipated, it would make it easier for
+you to yield to the same temptations."
+
+"Was that what he meant when he said he was not surprised that Will Grey
+was so bad a boy, for his father was a very wild young man?"
+
+"Yes, that was exactly what he meant."
+
+"If that is so why don't fathers tell their boys about it so that they
+can behave better when they are young?"
+
+"That is just what I think they ought to do, but unfortunately people
+have thought they must not talk of these things to young folks for fear
+it will make them bad instead of good."
+
+"Well, I guess that would depend upon the way they told it. Now they
+don't tell it right, but leave the boys to be told in wrong ways, and
+that really does lead them to be bad. No one ever talked to me as you
+have to-night, and I am sure it makes me want to be better."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"That ought to be the effect, and I believe it would be if boys were
+only 'told right,' as you say. But I have told you only half the story.
+Here is another picture. These are called _ova_. One is an _ovum_, and
+these are the principle the mother gives to the future child. They are
+greatly magnified. It would take 240 of them lying side by side to make
+a row an inch long, so we say they are 1/240 of an inch in
+diameter, but tiny as they are, each ovum contains all the traits or
+talents that the mother gives to the child of which this particular ovum
+may form a part. Your mother is English, your father American. Their
+childhood and youth were spent thousands of miles apart, and yet both
+were working by the habits of their lives to create you in your peculiar
+traits and talents. Are you like your parents in any of their
+capabilities?"
+
+"Yes, I am like mother in her love for music; you know she is a fine
+musician."
+
+"Yes, and in the cultivation of her own musical ability she made it
+easier for you to learn music; just as your father, in his study as an
+engineer, has given you a love for mathematics."
+
+"But my grandfather and great-grandfather were engineers, and I am going
+to be one, too."
+
+"It is true that you inherit from your grandparents, also, but it must
+be through your parents, and they may have changed the direction of
+the inheritance. This important fact you should know and remember.
+You can change yourself by education so that the inheritance of your
+children may be quite changed. For example, if you know that you
+lack perseverance, you can, by constantly making a mighty effort to
+overcome this defect, compel yourself to persevere, and this would
+tend to give your children perseverance. So you see we need not
+despair because we have inherited faults from our ancestors, but we
+should determine all the more that we will not pass these defects on
+to later generations."
+
+"I guess that is what Dr. Brice meant when he said that mother's good
+care of her health had overcome in us children to a great extent the
+tendency to consumption which is in her family. Nearly all my cousins on
+her side die with it, but when she was a little girl her father made her
+live out of doors all the time and she grew strong, and we none of us
+seem to have any tendency to consumption."
+
+"You see then the value of caring for yourself in youth, not only for
+your own sake but for that of your children. Your mother did not know
+that she would ever have children to be benefitted by her out-door life.
+But one day she met a young man who pleased her, and as they grew to
+know each other better they came to love each other so that they wished
+to leave home and friends and make their own home and live their united
+lives separate and apart from all the rest of the world. So they were
+married, as we say. Marriage is the union of one man and one woman under
+the sanction of the law. This is the closest and most sacred human
+relation. In this relation the _spermatozoon_ of the man unites with the
+germ or _ovum_ of the woman and a new life is begun. When your parents
+knew that such a little life had begun in their home they felt a great
+and holy joy, and desired that every good might surround it in its
+development. You were the first to come into your father's home. After
+your life had begun you were still so small as not to be visible to the
+naked eye, and would have been lost had you come into the world. But a
+home had been prepared for you in your mother's body, where day by day
+you grew and grew. The food which she ate nourished you as well as
+herself. The air which she breathed was life to you as well as to her.
+
+"You have seen the father-bird bringing food to the mother-bird as she
+sits upon her eggs and waits for the birdlings to come forth, and you
+have thought it a pretty sight to watch his tender care of her. Even so
+your father watched over your mother and you. He provided everything as
+pleasant as possible, he removed every care from her path so that she
+might be happy and so make you happy. His love for her took on a new and
+strange tenderness it had not known before. And she, holding you warm
+and close in the embrace of her body, thought of you and loved you. She
+wondered how you would look; she dreamed of you; she fancied she could
+feel the touch of your fluttering fingers; she made your little wardrobe
+and with each stitch wove in some tender thought of the baby whom she
+had never seen. Then one day she cried out with great anguish of body
+but joy of heart, 'O my baby is coming.' Then through long hours she
+suffered, going down almost to the gates of death that you might have
+life. But she never murmured; in spite of all her pain and anguish of
+body her very soul was full of rejoicing that soon she would hold you in
+her arms. When all those hours of peril and anxiety were past and you
+were laid in your mother's arms, your father came and bent over you both
+with a measureless love, and looking into your little face they knew
+what the Scripture meant when it said, 'And they twain shall be one
+flesh,' for were not you a living fulfillment of that saying? You were a
+part of each united in a living being who belonged to them both. Then
+for the first time could they realize, even dimly, the yearning, tender
+love of their heavenly Father who had granted to them to know by
+experience his feelings towards his children."
+
+Great tears had gathered in the boy's eyes as she talked, and now with
+choking voice he said, "I don't think I can ever be disobedient again,
+Dr. Barrett. I did not understand it all as I do now. You know we only
+hear these things talked of among the boys, and I had come to feel that
+there was some reason why I ought to be ashamed of my father and mother;
+but it all looks so different to me now. I wish you could talk to the
+other boys as you have to me."
+
+"It may not be possible for me to do so, although I should be glad to do
+it, but you can help them to think more truly on these subjects. You can
+especially help them to treat women and girls with more respect than
+they often do, because you can see how an injury to any girl is an
+injury to the whole world."
+
+"I don't quite see that," said Carl.
+
+"You can see that if any one had injured your mother in her girlhood it
+would have been an injury to all her children, can you not?"
+
+"O yes."
+
+"And that injury might be passed on to future generations. There lived a
+poor girl, about a hundred years ago, who was uncared for by good people
+and wronged by evil ones, and to-day she is known as a 'mother of
+criminals,' and no one can tell where the mischief will end. You would
+feel very indignant if you knew that some one had done your mother an
+injury in her girlhood, and you would feel the same way should any one
+wrong your sisters."
+
+"I knocked Bill Jones down last week because he said something to my
+sister Kate."
+
+"You felt a righteous anger and manifested it. Well, in all probability
+you will some day marry. If so, there is in the world to-day the girl
+who will be your wife. How do you want her to be treated by the boys who
+are her school-companions? Do you like to think that they are rough with
+her, or playing at lovering with her? Is it a pleasant thought that she
+is allowing them to caress her or write her silly sentimental notes?"
+
+Carl's face was scarlet, but he answered bravely; "No, it isn't."
+
+The Doctor continued. "Some day, in all likelihood, a little girl-child
+will climb upon your knee and call you papa. No creature can ever be to
+you what that little daughter will be. If any one should injure
+her----."
+
+"I'd kill him," broke in Carl hotly.
+
+"If you feel that way, dear boy, you should remember that every girl is
+some one's daughter, perhaps some one's sister, will probably be some
+one's wife and some one's mother, so that all girls should be sacred to
+you, treated with chivalrous courtesy and protected even as you feel you
+would protect those who may belong especially to you."
+
+"But don't you believe in boys and girls being friends at all?"
+
+"Most assuredly I do. Nothing is more charming than the frank
+comradeship of girls and boys, and that is why I am so sorry to see them
+spoil it with sentimentality. They ought to be good friends, helping
+each other, having jolly good times together, but never in ways that
+will bring a blush to the cheeks of either, now, or in the years to
+come."
+
+A rap sounded on the door and the maid entered with a note which she
+gave to the doctor, who handed it to Carl, saying, "Here is the note for
+Miss Bell. I have kept you waiting a long time, but I hope it has not
+been unprofitable."
+
+"Indeed it has not. I am ever so much obliged to you, I am sure."
+
+"And if you ever wish to talk to me again you will feel free to come,
+will you not?"
+
+"Yes, ma'am, I surely will," answered the lad with a frank clasp of the
+hand.
+
+"Wait a moment," said the doctor, "I have just thought of a little book
+that I am sure you will be interested in reading. It is called 'A
+Gateway and a Gift,' and it deals with some of the questions we have
+been talking about this evening. You can lend it to some of your boy
+friends if you wish."
+
+"Thank you," said Carl, taking the book which the doctor handed him, and
+then with another "Good night," he walked away in the darkness.
+
+The note which he gave to Miss Bell the next morning read merely:
+
+"Don't say anything to Carl. Just wait."
+
+If Miss Bell had seen a note slipped by Carl into Susie Glenn's hand an
+hour later she might have thought it an evidence that the doctor's plan
+had failed. But had she read the note her opinion would have been that
+it had succeeded. It read:
+
+    "Dear Susie:--It was real mean of me to write that note
+    yesterday. Will you forgive me? Say, Susie, I think all this
+    nonsense about lovers and sweethearts is silly rot, don't you?
+    Let's be just friends. Respectfully yours,
+
+    CARL."
+
+Susie's answer was short but to the point. It read:
+
+    "All right. Let's.
+
+    SUSIE."
+
+Several months later Miss Bell and Miss Lane called again on Dr.
+Barrett.
+
+"Have you come with another problem?" asked the doctor.
+
+"No, we have come to report progress and to learn, if possible, just how
+it has come about. There has been a wonderful change in the school. The
+girls and boys are no less friendly, but it is without that silly
+sentimentality which was so annoying. They are now just real good
+comrades, and seem to help each other in being orderly, polite, and
+studious. How did you do it?"
+
+"Perhaps all credit is not due to me, but I will say that I gave Carl
+the instruction I thought he needed and he has passed the good word
+along. Several of the boys have met with me once a month to study
+concerning themselves, and I can see that they have grown to have a
+reverence for themselves and a deep regard for all womanhood. Carl was
+in last evening, and said, 'Dr. Barrett, I am so glad Miss Bell sent me
+with that note to you, for your talk to me that night has changed my
+whole life, I know. I feel so much cleaner all through, and have so much
+more respect for myself. And I think so differently of girls and women,
+and especially of my mother, and I realize as I never did before how
+important a thing it is to be almost a man.'"
+
+
+
+
+A GATEWAY AND A GIFT.
+
+
+Three gateways span the path of earthly existence: one at the entrance
+which we call the gate of birth; one at the close which we call the gate
+of death, and one at the entrance to the wondrous Land of the Teens,
+which we call the gate of manhood or of womanhood. At each of these
+gates a wonderful gift is presented to each individual. At the gate of
+birth it is the gift of earthly life, at death it is the gift of
+continued life, and at the gate which opens into the Land of the Teens
+it is the gift of creative life. You see that each gift is of life.
+
+The path of earthly life, beginning at the gateway of birth, passes
+through the sunny meadow-land of Childhood, and also through a strange,
+mysterious land to which we have referred as the Land of the Teens,
+before reaching the Heights of Maturity. This Land of the Teens is
+peculiar in that the inhabitants are neither children nor adults, and
+yet, with the inexperience of children, they have many of the desires
+and emotions of grown-up people. This constitutes an element of great
+danger, while another source of danger is the fact that adequate
+guidance is not always given in this transition period, or, if
+proffered, is proudly rejected by those who think that being in their
+"teens" makes them wise above that which is written.
+
+When we visit foreign lands we are grateful for guidance and direction,
+especially if we are not acquainted with the language; so, if we do not
+hire a guide we, at least, buy a guide-book. It seems to me, then, that
+we ought not to rebel against guides through the Land of the Teens,
+realizing that one who has traveled through a country can point out
+beauties and warn against dangers which would not be recognized by the
+inexperienced traveler.
+
+We can visit England, Italy, or Germany many times, and at each journey
+can profit by former experiences, but we pass through the Land of the
+Teens but once, and the lessons we learn on that journey we can only
+utilize for the benefit of others. This is why many people on the
+Heights of Maturity are anxious to light a beacon for those who are
+still in their "teens." They would gladly help others to shun the
+by-paths where they have met disaster, for they have learned the very
+solemn truth that in youth one is determining what maturity shall be.
+The seeds sown in the sunny meadow of Childhood and in the broader
+fields of the Land of the Teens are harvested in the uplands of
+Maturity, and the harvest is always greater than the seed sown. The
+petulance and pouting of the child hardens into the gruffness,
+bad-temper, and moroseness of the man; the idleness and shirking of the
+youth becomes the shiftlessness and unreliability of the adult; the
+boy's neglect of duty and unwearied search for pleasure may be harvested
+in dissipation and ruin in mature life. It is, then, a very serious
+thing to be passing through one's "teens," and the wise youth will
+welcome any guide who will show him a safe path. May I claim the
+privilege of acting for a little time in that capacity?
+
+The King of this land has made laws for its government and wisdom, has
+builded paths wherein one may walk in safety. The laws made by the King
+are not harsh and cruel, but are beneficent, and he denies no real good.
+He says to the traveler, "You belong to me, and I am desirous of your
+highest welfare; therefore, obey me and you shall be rewarded; disobey
+me and you shall be punished." It needs some moral courage to bravely
+stay in the path of Wisdom, for there are many allurements to leave it;
+more particularly as the inexperience of the traveler does not warn him
+of the dangers of following pleasures that lead away from wisdom's ways.
+The guide worthy of trust must not fail to point out these dangers; and
+the prudent youth will listen to the warning voice and walk in Wisdom's
+ways, for "all her ways are pleasantness, and all her paths are peace."
+
+We talk much about our personal liberty, and assert that we have a right
+to live in Maine or California, but we have not that much liberty in
+regard to dwelling in the Land of the Teens. If we are ever to reach the
+Heights of Maturity we must spend ten years in the Teens. We cannot sell
+our domain, nor give it away, and we cannot even hire some one to
+cultivate it for us. This being the case, it becomes important for us
+to study the soil and how best to develop its advantages.
+
+We find that the land has three divisions: the Domain of the Body, the
+Field of Intellect, and the Garden of the Heart,--the same divisions
+that exist in the Sunny Land of Childhood, and that we have been
+cultivating ever since we were born. These are the kingdoms which came
+to us with the gift of life. We recognize that the gifts which come to
+us at birth and death are of life for ourselves alone, and we have had
+no thought during our childish years except to develop our powers for
+our own advantage. It may be we have not felt perfectly satisfied with
+our lot in life, but we have felt that we were not responsible for this.
+We did not choose to be born in America instead of Asia, though we do
+not rebel at this fact. We did not select to be white instead of black.
+It is not our fault if we are born of a family in which consumption is
+an inheritance; and, on the other hand, we can claim no credit to
+ourselves if we have inherited strong bodies with healthful tendencies.
+It is our misfortune, and not our fault, if we are not quite perfectly
+poised by nature; it is our good fortune, not our foresight, if we have
+genius instead of mediocrity. The gifts that come to us through
+inheritance are ours without blame or credit to us but they bring with
+them the responsibility of their use. We are responsible for maintaining
+or increasing our dower of health by obedience to physical laws;
+responsible for the cultivation of our intellects, for the development
+of inherited virtues, and the annihilation of inherited vices.
+
+If you study your characteristics and talents you find that they repeat
+those of your ancestry. Your eyes, hair, mouth, chin, your stature,
+figure, complexion, your talents, capabilities, tendencies, your likes
+and dislikes, your faults as well as your virtues are repetitions of
+those who preceded you in this living network of existence of which you
+form a part. If you are not like father or mother you may be like
+grandfather or great-grandmother. If you do not find yourself repeating
+the characteristics or personality of any one ancestor, you may find
+yourself a composite photograph of several. And even if you cannot trace
+in yourself a likeness to any family representative, you may still be
+assured that from some of them your traits have come to you. You have
+only to recall the complexity of your sources of inheritance and then
+remember how many words can be spelled from the twenty-six letters of
+the alphabet to see that you can hardly measure the peculiar forces of
+mind and body that may come to you though that power of transmission
+which we call heredity.
+
+It may occur to you to ask why, if we are not responsible for our
+inheritances, is it needful to give them any particular thought? There
+are two reasons why we should consider the good and bad characteristics
+which may be ours through inheritance. In the first place, heredity is
+not fatality, and we are not absolutely obliged to follow the paths
+which our ancestors marked out for us, and in the second place, we can,
+by understanding our own characters, mark out better paths for our
+posterity. We are not only receivers of life, but we may be also givers
+of life, and this is the gift that comes to you at the entrance to the
+Land of the Teens. Can you imagine a more important period in the life
+of an individual than that point where is intrusted to him the physical
+powers which make him the arbiter of the destiny of those who come after
+him?
+
+The gift of possible life for others is even more marvelous than that of
+actual life for one's self and brings with it greater responsibility. It
+is accompanied with marked physical changes. You have observed them in
+yourself, though you perhaps have not understood them. Up to this time
+you have been but a child, and all your physical forces have been
+occupied in keeping you alive and growing. But you are now to become a
+man, with powers that will unite you to the race; powers that will give
+you the ability to form a new link in the living chain that now ends
+with you. You have noticed the rapid unfolding of your bodily powers;
+you have become conscious of new and strange emotions; you have, it may
+be, found yourself becoming irritable and have felt bewildered with the
+new aspects of life and have wondered what it all means. It may be you
+have felt as did one boy who said to his mother, to whom he confided all
+his problems of life: "Mamma, I want to kick and cry, and I don't know
+why." The mother knew. She understood the strange unfolding that was
+going on in his physical organism, and she kindly explained it to him,
+telling him that he must have patience with himself, and govern himself
+by his judgment and not allow himself to be carried away by impulse,
+assuring him that God would hold him as responsible for purity of
+character as He would the dear sister of whom they all felt so careful.
+He should reverence his manhood, even as he expected her to reverence
+her womanhood. This is necessary, not only for the good of each
+individual, but also for the eternal interest of future generations.
+
+This entrance into the Land of the Teens is a serious, even a dangerous
+period, for if you have not had right instruction you may be led, or
+fall into habits of wrong doing or thinking. If you are rightly taught
+you will begin to have an added reverence for yourselves in that God is
+dignifying you with new powers that will bring you more nearly into
+co-partnership with himself. These powers, the most sacred of all that
+have come to you, need years for development, and should be guarded by
+pure thoughts and kept for their holy office of promoting the earthly
+usefulness and eternal blessedness of those who hereafter will owe both
+earthly and immortal life to you.
+
+I have said that we are not responsible for the dower of virtues or of
+vices which are ours by inheritance, but we are responsible for the
+inheritances of our children, and this is a most solemn thought. Do you
+not begin to see that we cannot value ourselves too highly if we have
+the right idea of what our real worth is? We can scarcely overestimate
+the results of our own deeds. We may think it does not matter if we do
+not always tell the exact truth; if at some times we equivocate and at
+others exaggerate, but when we remember that truth is the foundation of
+character, and realize that by our little equivocations or exaggerations
+we may be weakening the foundations of many who are from us to receive
+their talents and tendencies, we begin to see that the matter is a very
+serious one. I am sometimes told that young people will not be
+influenced by a consideration for the welfare of unborn generations
+whose existence is very problematical in their thought; but my
+observation is that young folks are much more sensible than we give them
+credit for being. More than one young man has said to me: "I was never
+taught that my conduct and thought would impress themselves upon my
+children, but now that I see that such is the case, I am sure that I
+will hereafter be more careful of my life than I ever have been."
+
+This field of investigation is a broad one, and even if you never have
+an opportunity to study the subject scientifically you can still be of
+incalculable benefit to humanity by ever remembering that you are living
+for an earthly, as well as for a heavenly immortality. The young people
+who to-day are in the Land of the Teens are they who are determining the
+characteristics of the men and women of the Twentieth Century, creating
+the standards of thought and action, the methods of business, the level
+of morals, in fact the whole status of society in the world of a hundred
+years to come.
+
+It is a very wonderful fact that God has so created us that the result
+of our deeds is not limited to our own lives, but makes its impress upon
+those who are to come after us. We are not separate units, but are links
+in a living chain of endless transmission. This fact makes our lives of
+far greater consequence than if, in their results, they were limited to
+ourselves. If we are anxious concerning the future of our country, we
+may take to heart the thought that it will be what we ourselves have
+made it. The Bible expresses the same idea in many ways. "Whatsoever a
+man soweth, that shall he also reap," does not mean merely that his own
+future will be influenced by his conduct, but that his future in his
+children will be a record which he himself has made.
+
+Men often make their wills and bequeath to their children their gold or
+houses and lands, but sometimes against their wills they bequeath to
+their children a bodily dwelling of inferior material, and so poor in
+construction that it very soon falls into decay through disease, or in
+very early life becomes a tottering ruin. It would seem rather amusing
+to us if one should sit down and write his will and say: "I bequeath to
+my daughter Mary my yellow, blotched and pimpled complexion, resulting
+from my own bad habits of life. I bequeath to my son John, the effects
+of my habits of dissipation in my youth, with a like love for alcoholic
+liquors and tobacco. I bequeath to my son Harry my petulant, irritable
+disposition, and the rheumatic gout which I have brought upon myself by
+disobedience to physical law; and to my daughter Elizabeth, my trembling
+nerves and weak moral nature." But this is, in truth, what many parents
+do, and the children find it a sad, instead of an amusing fact.
+
+On the other hand, if one has led a life of uprightness and morality,
+and has obeyed physical law, his children will inherit his physical
+vigor, and his moral stamina. It becomes of exceeding great importance
+that these facts should be known to the young, in order that they may
+endeavor to overcome their own weaknesses, and strengthen their own good
+qualities for the sake of future generations.
+
+This heredity, the transmission of the qualities of the parent to the
+child, is found among plants and animals as well as in the human race.
+The seed of a plant produces another plant of the same kind, and the
+farmer knows when he sows wheat, that his harvest will be wheat, and he
+should know just as certainly that if he "sows wild oats" in his youth
+he may expect "wild oats" in his children. The character of the food we
+eat, the air we breathe, the occupations we follow, the habits we
+create, are the forces which shape not only our own destiny, but create
+the tendencies of our children.
+
+With these thoughts in mind, the question of the use of narcotics
+becomes one of great importance. There are few, if any, tobacco users
+who are anxious that their boys should early begin the use of the weed.
+But they do not realize the fact that in their own use of it they may
+have diminished the vital force of these boys, transmitting a tendency
+to disease, or perhaps an appetite for the tobacco itself, and not only
+will the boys feel the effects, but the girls as well. As the thought of
+men is turned in this direction, proofs are accumulating of the evil
+results to the children of tobacco-using parents. A prominent physician
+says: "I have never known an habitual tobacco user whose children did
+not have deranged nerves, and sometimes weak minds. Shattered nervous
+systems, for generations to come, may be the result of this indulgence.
+The children of tobacco-using parents frequently die with infantile
+paralysis. I have known two cases in which the crying of the baby could
+not be stopped until the tobacco-pipe was placed between its lips." Dr.
+Pidduck asserts that in no instance is the sin of the father more
+strikingly visited upon his children than the sin of tobacco using. "The
+enervation, the hypochondriasis, the hysteria, the insanity, the
+dwarfish deformities, the consumption, the suffering lives, and early
+deaths of the children of inveterate smokers bear ample testimony to the
+feebleness and unsoundness of the constitution transmitted by this
+pernicious habit."
+
+The effect of alcohol upon the child is equally marked, and from all
+sides comes the testimony that the degenerations do not stop with the
+individual, but pass on to succeeding generations. Sometimes the
+influence is seen in the stunting of the growth, both mentally and
+physically. Dr. Langden Downe reports several cases of this sort where
+the children had lived to be twenty-two years old and still remained
+infants, symmetrical in form, just able to stand beside a chair, utter a
+few monosyllabic sounds, and to be amused with toys. Dr. F. R. Lees,
+referring to the injury inflicted upon the liver by alcohol, says: "And
+recollect, whatever injury you inflict upon this organ, to your
+posterity the curse descends, and as is the father, so are the
+children." Dr. Kerr asserts that the effects of injury to the mind and
+body may not always show themselves in the drinker himself, yet it is
+doubtful if his children ever entirely escape the effects in one form or
+another. These effects may be manifest in insanity, or in a tendency to
+diseases of the stomach, liver, bowels, lungs, or other organs; or with
+a like love for alcoholic stimulants. Not only may the child be weak in
+body but also in intellect. It is the statement of a score of observant
+physicians that the children of intemperate parents are apt to be
+feeble in body and weak in mind.
+
+Another very striking thought in this connection is that while the
+physical effects may not show in the individual himself, nor in his
+children, they may be manifest in the deterioration of his grandchildren
+and great-grandchildren. A prominent temperance advocate who was laid up
+with rheumatic gout, which is apt to be the result of alcoholic
+indulgence, replied to a friend who wondered that he, a drinker of cold
+water, should suffer with this disease, "Yes, my ancestors drank the
+liquor and I foot the bills." In 1834 the Parliament of the British
+House of Commons made a report of intemperance in which they stated that
+the evils of alcoholism "are cumulative in the amount of injury they
+inflict, as intemperate parents, according to high medical testimony,
+give a taint to their offspring before birth, and the poisonous stream
+of spirits is conveyed through the milk of the mother to the infant at
+the breast; so that the fountain of life, through which nature supplies
+that pure and healthy nutriment of infancy, is poisoned at its very
+source, and a diseased and vitiated appetite is thus created, which
+grows with its growth, and strengthens with its increasing weakness and
+decay."
+
+A tendency to commit suicide seems to be a marked bequest of an
+inebriate parent to his children, and it is well to state that in the
+opinion of medical men who are dealing with all forms of inebriety, the
+evils resulting to the children may be transmitted by parents who have
+never been noted for drunkenness. Continual moderate drinking keeps the
+body so constantly under the influence of alcohol that a crowd of
+nervous difficulties and disorders may be transmitted even more surely
+than from the parent who has occasional sprees with long intervals of
+sobriety between. It is not only through the drinking father that injury
+is done to the children, but the mother may have a vitiated inheritance
+from her father and transmit it to her children.
+
+When we recall the fact that one hundred thousand men fall into
+drunkard's graves every year, we are appalled at the thought of that
+vast army marching on to death and destruction. As we listen, we can, in
+fancy, almost hear the tramp, tramp of that "mighty host advancing,
+Satan leading on." In the front rank comes the one hundred thousand men
+who shall fall into drunkard's graves this year, and behind them the one
+hundred thousand men who are to fall next year. They come with sound of
+revelry and song, and close beside them press a crowd of weeping wives
+and mothers and little children, starved, crippled, and murdered, who
+are to be fellow victims with the drunkard. Not very far back from the
+front row come one hundred thousand young men in the very prime of
+young, vigorous life, just beginning to drink their first glass of wine
+or beer, with no intention of ever standing in that front row, yet
+having started on the way. Back of them, one hundred little school boys
+who think it manly to ape the follies of their predecessors. Back of
+them, one hundred thousand little toddlers whose feet stagger in their
+innocent helplessness. Back of them, one hundred thousand mothers with
+babies in their arms. Oh, how sweetly those baby eyes look up into the
+loving eyes that are brooding over them. Is it possible those baby brows
+will ever lie low in the gutter, those sweet lips be stained by oath or
+glass; those crumpled rose-leaf fingers ever strike the murderous blow
+incited by alcohol? It must be, if that front rank of one hundred
+thousand drunkards is to be recruited, for the drunkards of the future
+are to-day babies in their mother's arms. Do you who read these words
+intend to join this vast army of prospective drunkards, or will you
+belong to the cold-water army that is marching on accompanied by health,
+vigor, industry, prosperity, success and long life?
+
+We must not be so interested in the inheritance of evil qualities as to
+forget the transmission of good. We read in Exodus, twentieth chapter,
+that the sins of the fathers are to be visited upon the children unto
+the third and fourth generations of them that hate the Lord, but mercy
+will be shown to _thousands of generations_ of them that love Him and
+keep his commandments. As we have seen the sins of the fathers are
+visited upon the children in transmission of diseased bodies, perverted
+moral natures and weakened wills, and realize that the promise is being
+fulfilled in the visitation of the sins of the fathers upon the
+children, let us see if the other promise is being fulfilled also, in
+the mercy shown to thousands of them that love the Lord and keep His
+commandments.
+
+An English specialist in children's diseases has carefully noted the
+difference between twelve families of drinkers and twelve families of
+sober parents during a period of twelve years.
+
+                        INTEMPERATE. | TEMPERATE.
+                                     |
+  Produced 57 children; 25 died in   | Produced 61 children; 6 died
+  the first week of life. These      | in first week, of weakness.
+  deaths due to convulsions, or      | 4 had curable diseases. 2
+  oedema of brain and membranes.     | showed inherited nervous defects.
+  2 were idiots. 5 dwarfs. 5         | This leaves 50 who were in
+  epileptics. 1 had chorea. 5 were   | every way normal, sound in body
+  deformed. 2 became drunkards.      | and mind.
+  This leaves only 10 who showed     |
+  during the whole of life a         |
+  normal disposition and development |
+  of body and mind.                  |
+
+If it were not a fact that health, purity, integrity, intellect and
+virtue were being transmitted to a far greater extent than sin and vice,
+there would be little good in the world, but the transmission of these
+good qualities is so extended, so like the air and the sunshine and the
+water, a common thing, that we almost forget to recognize it. When we
+turn our thoughts to the investigation of this phase of the subject, we
+find that vigorous parents have healthful children, that powers of
+intellect are transmitted, and that honesty and uprightness in the
+father warrants us in expecting the same in the son. We recognize the
+transmission of powers of intellect in the fact that where the parents
+have a peculiar talent, we very generally find the same talent in their
+children. We are acquainted with musical families, mathematical
+families, artistic families, and in the study of renowned people of the
+world we find evidences of this transmission of intellect. We also learn
+that the effects of education are transmissible, and if the parents are
+educated along a certain line the children receive education along that
+line much more readily. This fact becomes a wonderful incentive to us to
+build up all that is best in our own natures in order that through us
+the world may receive an impetus towards higher and better things.
+
+Sometimes when your faults and defects press upon you with tremendous
+force and you find it so very hard to overcome them, you may be tempted
+to lay the blame on your ancestry who gave you such a dower, who by
+their lives handicapped you in your life-struggle. You may feel inclined
+to say with some writer, to me unknown, who says:
+
+
+HEREDITY.
+
+    "Your strictures are unmerited,
+      Our follies are inherited,
+    Directly from our gran-pas they all came;
+      Our defects have been transmitted,
+    And we should be acquitted
+      Of all responsibility and blame.
+
+    We are not depraved beginners,
+      But hereditary sinners,
+    For our fathers never acted as they should;
+      'Tis the folly of our gran-pas
+    That continually hampers--
+      What a pity that our gran-pas weren't good!
+
+    Yes, we'd all be reverend senators,
+      If our depraved progenitors
+    Had all been prudent, studious and wise;
+      But they were quite terrestial,
+    Or we would be celestial,
+      Yes, we'd all be proper tenants for the skies.
+
+    If we're not all blameless sages,
+      And beacons to the ages,
+    And fit for principalities and powers;
+      If we do not guide and man it,
+    And engineer the planet,
+      'Tis the folly of our forefathers--not ours."
+
+But the lesson of these lines is not that you should lie back in
+inaction, making no effort to overcome your defects because they are
+inheritances. There is for you a wiser lesson in the theme than that.
+When Marshall Ney was taunted with the fact that the Imperial nobility
+had no pedigree he proudly replied, "We are ancestors."
+
+There is a grand thought for you. If your ancestors did not do the best
+for you, will you not profit by your knowledge of this fact and do the
+best for those who shall look back to you as their ancestor? Supposing
+that your parents in their youth had said: "I will take care of my
+health so that my children may be born with vigorous bodies; I will make
+good use of my intellect so that my children will inherit an added
+capacity for acquiring knowledge; I will obey all laws of morality so
+that my children will by inheritance tend toward virtue;" and supposing
+that you to-day, with healthful bodies, keen intellects and upward
+tending moral natures, were reaping the reward of their forethought,
+would you not bless them for it?
+
+You have no right to remain listless and discouraged because of your
+inheritances, whatever they may be. Hear the inspiriting words of Ella
+Wheeler Wilcox:
+
+    There is no thing you cannot overcome.
+    Say not thy evil instinct is inherited;
+    Or that some trait inborn, makes thy whole life forlorn,
+    And calls for punishment that is not merited.
+
+    Back of thy parents and grandparents lies,
+    The great Eternal Will; that, too, is thine
+    Inheritance--strong, beautiful, divine;
+    Sure lever of success for one who tries.
+
+    Pry up thy fault with this great lever--will;
+    However deeply bedded in propensity;
+    However firmly set, I tell thee firmer yet
+    Is that great power that comes from truth's immensity.
+
+    There is no noble height thou canst not climb;
+    All triumphs may be thine in time's futurity,
+    If whatsoe'er thy fault, thou dost not faint or halt,
+    But lean upon the staff of God's security.
+
+    Earth has no claim the soul can not contest.
+    Know thyself part of the supernal source,
+    And naught can stand before thy spirit's force
+    The soul's divine inheritance is best.
+
+The youth of to-day have in their own hands the molding of the future,
+not only of themselves, but of the nation, by the every day habits of
+their lives. By their thoughts and aspirations, by the moral tendencies
+which they are cultivating in themselves, they are determining what
+shall be the characteristics of the nation in a hundred years to come.
+Shall this be, in a hundred years, a nation of drunkards? The young
+people of to-day are deciding that question. Shall it be a nation of
+invalids? This, also, the young people are deciding. Shall it be a
+nation filled with greed of gain, with a low standard of morals, with
+dishonest methods in business, or shall it be a nation wherein vigorous
+health is the rule, unflinching courage, absolute integrity and pure
+morality shall everywhere reign? What the young people of to-day are
+making of themselves physically, mentally and morally, is deciding what
+shall be the future of the country.
+
+
+
+
+THE WHITE CROSS.
+
+
+The cross is considered as an emblem of self-denial, the immolating of
+selfish wishes upon the altar of universal good.
+
+In a nobler sense it means not so much self-denial as the creation
+of nobler desires, so that the individual wants only those things which
+he rightfully should have; he is not obliged to deny himself, because
+he asks nothing but that which is noble and pure. In this sense the
+cross is not so much the emblem of self-denial as an emblem of
+self-ennoblement--the exaltation of self.
+
+The White Cross typifies the purifying of the life from the desire of
+mere sense pleasures. It means the noble manhood which claims for itself
+the privilege of chastity and the rewards of purity.
+
+The White Cross army is composed of men and boys over fourteen years of
+age who unite to resist vice, to secure safety for the home and for
+society, to become all that becomes true manhood. In organized
+co-operation there is strength. It is not only the "long pull" and
+the "strong pull," but the "pull altogether," that is thoroughly
+successful.
+
+Hundreds of men are living the white life individually, but are not
+associated together in an effort to influence others. Such association
+would result in more rapidly spreading the idea of the responsibility of
+the individual, would create public opinion, would give moral support to
+those who might find their unaided strength inadequate to meet the
+temptations of the world, in short, would furnish the conditions
+favorable to the highest ideals of social and individual life.
+
+The White Cross Society aims to unite men in such an organized effort
+for the elevation of moral standards. Its members are pledged to the
+keeping of a fivefold obligation. The first of these appeals to the
+chivalry latent in the heart of every man, making him a protector of
+every woman, however lonely or friendless she may be, recognizing her
+potential value to the race; protecting her against his own selfish
+desires, against the open and covert assaults of other men, against her
+own unwisdom, if need be.
+
+The second obligation pledges the White Cross knight to a pure heart
+expressed not only in conduct but in word. He will think and speak
+reverently of life in all its phases, and help to cleanse the
+language--written or spoken--of all that pollutes the heart or vitiates
+the imagination. The third obligation claims for the White Cross soldier
+the glory of living up to the highest moral standards, of being as pure
+as the noblest woman that lives. The fourth recognizes the power of
+influence and binds the members to a helpful interest in all humanity.
+
+The fifth covers the whole scope of life in the obligation to use every
+effort to fulfil the command, "Keep thyself pure." The heart of the true
+man must throb a quick response to the appeal made to him by the White
+Cross.
+
+It means marital fidelity, it implies the sanctity of the home, it
+creates individual purity, and that insures social purity, it means a
+nobler manhood, a grander womanhood, a safer childhood.
+
+The appeal is made to you individually. Will you not become a White
+Cross knight? Will you not, even if you cannot join an organized
+society, become a standard-bearer of the White Cross, pledging yourself
+to its five obligations? Soon you will find others willing to unite with
+you in this great work, and the society will be formed.
+
+Each one who reads this book may become a true and faithful knight of
+the White Cross, no matter where he may be, in city mart or lonely farm,
+in busy shop or quiet school, and not only may he be a soldier, but he
+may be a recruiting officer, inducing others to enlist under the White
+Cross banner.
+
+
+THE WHITE CROSS PLEDGE.
+
+    "_Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God._"
+
+I PROMISE, BY THE HELP OF GOD:
+
+    1. _To treat all women with respect, and endeavor to protect
+    them from wrong and degradation._
+
+    2. _To endeavor to put down all indecent language and coarse
+    jests._
+
+    3. _To maintain the law of purity as equally binding upon men
+    and women._
+
+    4. _To endeavor to spread these principles among my companions,
+    and try to help my younger brothers._
+
+    5. _To use all possible means to fulfil the command, "Keep
+    thyself pure."_
+
+                                             Name_______________________
+
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+
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+
+
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+
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+
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+      2. "What a Young Man Ought to Know."
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+
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+
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+
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+        3. "What a Young Wife Ought to Know."
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+
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+
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+
+... MARY WOOD-ALLEN, M. D.
+
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+
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+
+
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+
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+
+
+=Almost A Woman=,
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+the queries of children as to the origin of life. The reception it has
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+
+The principal of a young ladies' school writes: "I invited our girls to
+the parlor and read your brochure, which was listened to with the
+deepest interest. At certain portions of the reading nearly all were in
+tears. It is a most pathetically pure, chaste presentation of a grand
+subject. You would have rejoiced could you have heard the expressions
+from the young ladies. Surely, dear Dr. Allen, God has blessed many
+through your instrumentality."
+
+Read this book if you read no other but the Bible this year.--_Emma
+Bates, Valley City, N. D._
+
+Please send me some more copies of your unique and valuable little book.
+I cannot keep a copy over night. It would be an evangel to every young
+person in whose hands it might be placed. I would also invite the public
+school teachers to examine this rare little book.--_Frances E.
+Willard._
+
+A skilful, graceful, and reverent effort to assist parents in what has
+been a delicate and difficult task. The author deserves the praise that
+belongs to the successful pioneer.--_George N. Miller._
+
+
+=ALMOST A MAN.=
+
+... Price, 25 Cents ...
+
+The success of the "Teaching Truth," and "Child-Confidence Rewarded,"
+together with the frequent requests for some inexpensive book for the
+instruction of boys approaching manhood, has led to the writing of
+"=Almost A Man=." It is intended to help mothers and teachers in the
+delicate task of teaching the lad concerning himself, purely and yet
+with scientific accuracy.
+
+A booklet designed to help mothers and teachers in the instruction of
+boys.
+
+Ought to be in the hands of every parent in the land.--_Toledo Blade._
+
+Chaste and pure, and admirably adapted to mothers in this most difficult,
+universally neglected but very important line of work.--_Early
+Education._
+
+Many mothers will be glad to read what such an authority as Dr. Wood-Allen
+has to say on so important and delicate a subject.--_Mother's Journal._
+
+Worth its weight in gold to the puzzled mother, telling her exactly what
+she wants to know. This book deals reverently with the great mystery of
+life.--_Ladies' Home Journal._
+
+Too much cannot be said in its favor.--_School Education._
+
+I can conscientiously recommend it to all who are interested in the
+physical and moral welfare of youth.--_C. A. Dorman, M. D._
+
+Such literature cannot fail to accomplish great and lasting good.--_Eng.
+F. Storke, M. D._
+
+Many have given good advice, but this is the best.--_Rev. Kent White._
+
+I believe this little book would do incalculable good if placed in the
+hands of boys after they have reached ten years of age.--_Wm. G. Lotze,
+Gen. Sec. Y. M. C. A., Denver, Colo._
+
+
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+
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+
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+
+=The Marvels of Our Bodily Dwelling=
+
+=BY MARY WOOD-ALLEN, M. D.=
+
+Teaching by metaphor, parable, and allegory has been the method of many
+of the wisest instructors.
+
+No one can claim originality in comparing the body to a house, for that
+comparison is as old as literature.
+
+But the simile is still of interest to the juvenile mind, and as science
+is ever making new discoveries, there is continual demand for new and
+interesting works on physiology.
+
+Dr. Wood-Allen in this new book has united scientific facts and metaphor
+with the skill that would be expected from her by those acquainted with
+her literary powers.
+
+The book will be found equally valuable as a text-book, a supplementary
+reader or a reference book in schools, or as a book of pleasant home
+instruction. Teachers in Normal Schools will find it a most suggestive
+aid in teaching physiology. As it contains the most reliable scientific
+facts in regard to alcohol, tobacco, and other narcotics, it fills the
+demand created by the school laws compelling the teaching of the action
+of narcotics on the human body.
+
+
+TESTIMONIALS.
+
+A charming book.--_Frances Willard._
+
+Only a scientific person can understand how really good it is. It has
+been to me intensely interesting, and I hope sincerely that the world at
+large will appreciate it.--_J. M. W. Kitchen, M. D._
+
+It gives me pleasure to note that the book, both by its subject-matter
+and its pleasing form of presentation, is well adapted to the use for
+which it is intended.--_B. A. Hinsdale, Professor of the Science and Art
+of Teaching, University of Michigan._
+
+I find here, wrought out in attractive form, some of the most important
+knowledge that our young people ought to know. It is suitable for a
+supplementary reader in the upper grammar grades of the public schools.
+Part Second particularly is of the highest value to the boys and girls
+in our grammar and high schools.--_W. S. Perry, Principal of High
+School, Ann Arbor, Mich._
+
+This excellent work ought to be, not only read, but studied by every one
+in and out of our schools who is interested in preserving the integrity
+of our bodily and mental functions. The author's method would make
+knowledge invigorate and mature the judgment and not burden the memory,
+and this is the germinal idea in all sound education.--_Geo. E. Seymour,
+Professor of History, High School, St. Louis, Mo._
+
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+
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+
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+
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+
+In this supplementary chapter are given the scientific facts of special
+physiology, written in Dr. Wood-Allen's own delicate style. Many who
+have become aroused to the fact that accurate scientific knowledge is
+the surest safeguard of purity, are themselves not well enough
+instructed to be able to teach their children. This booklet meets the
+need of all such, and gives just what is wanted to instruct young people
+in regard to the sacred origin of life. Every one who owns "Teaching
+Truth" and "Child-Confidence Rewarded" will desire to possess this
+booklet also, for it supplements these perfectly.
+
+
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+
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+
+"This little book treats of child-purity with the same delicate but
+masterly hand shown in Dr. Allen's other writings."--_Union Signal of
+July 5, 1894._
+
+"Unique and valuable."--_Frances E. Willard._
+
+"I am delighted with it."--_Katherine Lente Stevenson, Chicago._
+
+"Most charmingly written."--_Alice B. Stockham, M. D., Chicago._
+
+"The good it will do is incalculable."--_Emily S. Bouton, in Toledo
+Blade._
+
+"The best you have done yet. I can recommend it."--_Earl Barnes,
+Professor in Leland Stanford University, Palo Alto, Cal._
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+
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+
+    It is sui generis, deals frankly and scientifically with the
+        moral problems of the home, the school, and society.
+
+It embodies the work of the =White Cross=, =White Shield=, =Mother's
+Meetings=, =Child-Culture Circles=, and the =Rescue Work=. Also deals
+with the subject of Reform and Legislation for Morality, and yet
+continuing to emphasize, most emphatically of all, the necessity of
+right instruction as the surest means of promoting purity. Co-operating
+with the National Superintendent of the Department of Health and
+Heredity, it discusses all topics of health and inheritance, pre-natal
+influences, etc. =Physical education will also have its share of
+attention.=
+
+Crusaders of old endeavored to overthrow evil by "force and arms." The
+NEW CRUSADE proposes to emphasize the positive side of life, and waging
+a peaceful war, aims to supplant Ignorance by Knowledge; to eradicate
+Vice by Virtue; to displace Disease by Health, and to dispel Darkness by
+Light.
+
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+
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+
+Transcriber Notes
+
+Typographical problems have been changed and are listed below.
+
+Hyphenation and common compound words standardized and listed below.
+
+Author's archaic spelling is preserved.
+
+Author's punctuation style is preserved.
+
+Table of Contents added.
+
+Passages in italics indicated by _underscores_.
+
+Passages in bold indicated by =equal signs=.
+
+
+Transcriber Changes
+
+The following changes were made to the original text:
+
+  Prelude: =meadow land= standardized to =meadow-land= (lads
+            had crossed the sunny =meadow-land= of childhood and stood
+            by the gate)
+
+  Page 7: Added quotes (="It= has been so long since I saw you
+            that you have almost grown out of my knowledge.... You must
+            be fifteen years =old."=)
+
+  Page 8: =anyone= standardized to =any one= (supposing you
+            try to forget that =any one= has ever told you anything
+            about it)
+
+  Page 9: =every thing= standardized to =everything= (We may
+            go even farther and say with Mr. Grant Allen that
+            =everything= high and ennobling in our nature springs
+            directly from the fact of sex.)
+
+  Page 13: =microscrope= changed to =microscope= (they are not
+            visible except with the aid of a =microscope=)
+
+  Page 14: Changed period to comma after =to-night= (No one
+            ever talked to me as you have =to-night,= and I am sure it
+            makes me want to be better.)
+
+  Page 20: Changed single quote to double (that will bring a
+            blush to the cheeks of either, now, or in the years to
+            =come."=)
+
+  Page 20: Changed ending single quote to double (the doctor
+            handed him, and then with another "Good =night,"= he walked
+            away in the darkness.)
+
+  Page 24: =plesaantness= changed to =pleasantness= ("all her
+            ways are =pleasantness=, and all her paths are peace.")
+
+  Page 26: Added comma after =mouth= (Your eyes, hair,
+            =mouth,= chin, your stature, figure, complexion, your
+            talents, capabilities)
+
+  Page 27: =prehaps= changed to =perhaps= (You have observed
+            them in yourself, though you =perhaps= have not understood
+            them.)
+
+  Page 31: =tobacco using= standardized to =tobacco-using=
+            (proofs are accumulating of the evil results to the children
+            of =tobacco-using= parents)
+
+  Page 36: =transmissable= changed to =transmissible= (We also
+            learn that the effects of education are =transmissible=)
+
+  Advertisements: Removed extraneous quote after =youth= (I
+            can conscientiously recommend it to all who are interested
+            in the physical and moral welfare of =youth.=--_C. A.
+            Dorman, M. D._)
+
+  Advertisements: =M D.= changed to =M. D.= ("Most charmingly
+            written."--_Alice B. Stockham, =M. D.=, Chicago._)
+
+                   *       *       *       *       *
+
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