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THE S. A. MULLIKIN COMPANY
MARIETTA OHIO
Copyrighted, 1913, By
THE S. A. MULLIKIN CO.
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Dedicated
TO THE GRANDFATHERS AND GRANDMOTHERS,
TO THE FATHERS AND MOTHERS,
TO THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES,
TO THE BACHELORS AND MAIDS,
TO THE YOUNG MEN AND YOUNG WOMEN,
TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS,
TO THE BABES THAT BE AND ARE TO BE,
THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR.
PREFACE
Truth like gold is unaffected in quality by its environment, but the environment of truth does affect the character of the person receiving it. Half truths clothed in obscene language and imparted by the ignorant or vicious have made mental, moral and physical wrecks of millions. The same truth received from a pure mother, noble father, a good book or a wise teacher, safeguards the youth and accomplishes untold good.
The purpose of this book is not only to enable parents, teachers and all matured people, to inform themselves more fully concerning the vital facts of life, but it furnishes a specific guide to all parents, who would know how to tell their children the sacred story of life, and counsel intelligently with their sons and daughters at the ages of greatest danger and give them clean, concise and scientific sex instruction with a view to safeguarding them against the demoralizing half truths of vicious or ignorant schoolmates, servants or companions; and to all others of sufficient age, who have an opportunity for service to innocent and helpless children, who would have a wise word at the right time; and to the young man and young woman, married or single, who would avoid the pit-falls lying in the pathway of those ignorant of God’s sacred laws of nature; and to all mankind who seek to make the world better by more intelligent and better living.