CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.[The Body as a Machine]3
II.[The Outside Lungs—the Skin]26
III.[How All Life Commences]45
IV.[Care of Self During Puberty]67
V.[Night Emissions and the Boy’s Worry]79
VI.[Self-abuse—How to Stop It—the Quacks]95
VII.[Your Vocation and How to Fit Yourself for It]124
VIII.[Environments and Diseases which Rust Brain-tools]138

FOREWORD
THE REASON

These chats are the pleasurable results of the many little confidential ones I have given at boys’ and young men’s clubs and at preparatory schools.

It has been my fortune—for so I consider it—to have been brought into intimate relations with men who are failures. Not the down and out men, but those who are struggling along dissatisfied with what they are doing—what false and wrong training has forced them to do.

Many of these despondent and useless men have been guided into places where they fit—where there is conservation of energy, happiness and results. These are the factors for a mentally and physically balanced man—provided he has had early instruction in some vital matters.

The impulse to have the future fathers in a position to guide and live in close confidential relations with their sons, is the reason for this book.