“Well I learned the make-up on the stage. I sit before the camera with my chest out, hair curled, and in the best clothes this burg can turn out. Then I am mugged as a fine specimen of the doc’s work. This done, I go and make up as you see me—next scene with slow music: ‘The Lost Manhood’ act. Then the photos are placed side by side and off they go to the boys of this free and unwise land.
“Oh, yes, I have several other stunts. I am the original ‘Kidney Cure’ chap. Never seen me, bent over, holding on to one rotten kidney with an expression of Death on my noble brow? I’m It in the next photo, fine girls hanging onto my brawny arms or sitting happy with my two hundred pound, but happy, wife while the fireside burns cheerfully. But even the fire is a fake.
“I have a partner, too, in all these stunts; she stands for a photo with all the latest on her for the shapely woman, then they put a rig on her and blow her up. ‘How to Reduce Flesh. Why Be Fat When You Can, By Using Old Doc’s Food, Look Like THIS?’
“Say, honest, Doc,—pardon, I forgot, Doctor,—how long did it take you to learn your professional duties? Look, the fakers I work for can’t even write their own ads—it’s all done for them by men who understand what’s wrong with the boys and girls, schools and parents. Wake up, Doctor, wake up and get some of the Mazulum that’s flying around.”
I think, boys, that this story of a faker’s tool will explain the whole matter to you better than a talk in our own tongue.
How often may a boy have these night emissions without being injured by them?
Like all other physiologic functions the answer depends upon the boy. That is, how he works and plays; how well fed he is, and how he lets off his steam. The boy in good health and good surroundings, after he is sixteen years of age, need not think about the matter when they occur once a week. Should they be more frequent, occurring two or three times a week for several weeks in succession, then it means that something is wrong. But nothing to worry about; just some little fault to adjust. And the youth can do this adjustment himself. He will understand himself better than a physician can, after he has seen the truth of these matters. Here is what I mean: Supposing you have these “wet dreams” two or three times a week and they keep up until you commence to feel their weakening effect. Now there is a cause for every effect. Find the cause for their increase of frequency. Look well into yourself. Have you been listening to nasty stories? seen pictures which aroused your baser instincts, or read books which you know you should not have read? Yes, a little, perhaps. Well, remember what I said about the mind influencing the action of the sex organs. You see that the remedy is in your own hands. Just stop such pictures and stories getting a place in your brain and the emissions will also stop.
But above all things don’t get frightened, don’t take any medicines or drugs, DON’T BELIEVE A THING THE QUACKS ADVERTISE. Be your own master in this as in all matters.
There are other causes which you must correct. The irritation I spoke about which comes by letting matter remain in your lower bowel, is sometimes a cause for too frequent emissions. This material remaining so close to the sex organs causes a pressure and heat. This excites the parts and then goes the message to the brain, bringing dreams and the letting out of seminal fluid. Such a cause if continued will do harm, but you can at once stop the cause and then the emissions cease.