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Many women learn the lesson too late. It was of such a woman that 

 my friend spoke. She said : " I knew her as a girl, healthy and vig- 

 orous, and I knew her when she died, a wreck. She was married at 

 nineteen. He was a handsome, dashing fellow. They had two children. 

 In course of lime she began to be ailing. She grew worse, suffered 

 terribly, and at last the end came. We were all in the room her 

 mother, her sister, and I. She was lying back on her pillow, barely 

 breathing, when her husband came in. An expression of horror swept 

 across her face. She half raised herself on her elbow, pointed her finger 

 toward him, and in a husky whisper said : " You did it, and you know 

 it. You 'ye killed me." Then she fell back dead. 



It is because of cases like this one (and they might be multiplied by 

 the tens of thousands) that state after state of the United States is passing 

 the law that any person about to be married shall first secure a medical 

 certificate stating that the bearer of it has no contagious disease. 



As soon as women realize the need, they themselves will insist on 

 this. Even now some intelligent fathers require such a certificate of the 

 men who wish to marry their daughters. And every healthy man is 

 glad and proud to be able to give it. In course of time the demand will 

 be universal. In the meantime let a girl refuse the intimate companion- 

 ship of any man who is morally weak. Let her refuse to marry him. 

 The chances are that such men are also physically diseased. 



Practically all women who lead immoral lives are diseased some of the 

 time, and some of them all the time. They are centers of infection. On 

 the average, such women live about six years after beginning to lead this life. 



The following is a true family history. It was .told to me by one who 

 knew the persons. 



The father of the family had committed two sins one against him- 

 self, the other against his family. I state them side by side for the sake 

 of comparison. In his early manhood he had been immoral and con- 

 tracted syphilis ; he was treated by the doctors and counted himself well. 

 After this he married. Thirty years later he began to lose control of 

 his judgment. In business, where he had been keen-sighted before, 

 he now made strange mistakes slight at first but increasingly serious. 

 Months passed and his mind grew constantly less efficient, until at last 

 he could be trusted with no business whatever. 



Finally, he lost his mind so completely that he was put into an insane 

 asylum. The cause of it was the disease taken when he sowed wild oats 



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