17.  “THERE IS NO ONE who stands so near the girl as the mother.  From early childhood she occupies the first place in the little one’s confidence she laughs, plays, and corrects, when necessary, the faults of her darling.  She should be equally ready to guide in the important laws of life and health upon which rest her future.  Teach your daughters that in all things the ‘creative principle’ has its source in life itself.  It originates from Divine life, and when they know that it may be consecrated to wise and useful purposes, they are never apt to grow up with base thoughts or form bad habits.  Their lives become a happiness to themselves and a blessing to humanity.

18.  TEACH WISELY.—­“Teach your daughters that all life originates from a seed a germ.  Knowing this law, you need have no fears that base or unworthy thoughts of the reproductive function can ever enter their minds.  The growth, development and ripening of human seed becomes a beautiful and sacred mystery.  The tree, the rose and all plant life are equally as mysterious and beautiful in their reproductive life.  Does not this alone prove to us, conclusively, that there is a Divinity in the background governing, controlling and influencing our lives?  Nature has no secrets, and why should we?  None at all.  The only care we should experience is in teaching wisely.

“Yes lead them wisely teach them that the seed, the germ of a new life, is maturing within them.  Teach them that between the ages of eleven and fourteen this maturing process has certain physical signs.  The breasts grow round and full, the whole body, even the voice, undergoes a change.  It is right that they should be taught the natural law of life in reproduction and the physiological structure of their being.  Again we repeat that these lessons should be taught by the mother, and in a tender, delicate and confidential way.  Become, oh, mother, your daughter’s companion, and she will not go elsewhere for this knowledge which must come to all in time, but possibly too late and through sources that would prove more harm than good.

19.  THE ORGANS OF CREATIVE LIFE in women are:  Ovaries, Fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina and mammary glands.  The ovaries and Fallopian tubes have already been described under “The Female Generative Organs.”

“The uterus is a pear-shaped muscular organ, situated in the lower portion of the pelvis, between the bladder and the rectum.  It is less than three inches in length and two inches in width and one in thickness.

“The vagina is a membranous canal which joins the internal outlet with the womb, which projects slightly into it.  The opening into the vagina is nearly oval, and in those who have never indulged in sexual intercourse or in handling the sexual organs is more or less closed by a membrane termed the hymen.  The presence of this membrane was formerly considered as undoubted evidence of virginity; its absence, a lack of chastity.