What more perfect or pleasing picture than that of happy married life.  Yet how little of it we see!  How the newspapers dish up to us in strong words the misery, despair, wretchedness, infidelity and deceit of the divorce court.  How it stares at us from the desolate fireside of friend and acquaintance; is hinted at or suppressed by the records of the Coroner’s office; leers at us from the sumptuous mansion of the affluent; lurks in the humble cottage of the mechanic.  How sad the contrast between the home where nestle happiness, love, contentment, offspring; and the abode of suspicion, deceit, infidelity or barrenness.

And yet men and women are being married every day, every hour—­ay, every minute.  Men and women incompatible physically, mentally, morally—­urged on by lust, cupidity, love; to escape unhappy homes; to hide sad sins—­for a thousand reasons, some good, many bad—­are constantly marrying.

A man selects a wife less carefully than he would a horse; a woman yields herself, her life, her happiness, blindly, unreasoningly, to a man of whom she knows nothing.  A man better fitted for the hospital, the infirmary, or the insane asylum, enters the bonds of wedlock with never a thought of the consequences; with never a care as to whether he will wreck his own life and happiness or that of the innocent girl he is deceiving; with never a heed of the ill-starred, diseased, puny or idiotic progeny his act may bring into being, a burden to the community, a curse to himself and a constant reminder of the parent’s foolhardiness—­ay, even crime!

No man who is affected with any form of Sexual or Venereal Disease should for a single instant even think of +marriage+ until every +trace+ of his +weakness+ or +disease+ has disappeared.  In these days of medical advance in this special field, there is no excuse for such action.  There are few—­very few—­cases of Seminal Weakness and Impotency that cannot now be cured.  Of course, here as elsewhere, there are traps and humbugs, quacks and charlatans, false theories and empty moralizing; but there is also truth and knowledge, hope and certainty for such as are sufficiently in earnest to search for them.  Prof.  Civiale, by his indomitable perseverance, thorough study and experiment, and final conclusions and discoveries, has placed the means of a perfect restoration to full mental, bodily and sexual vigor within the reach of all, and no man has any right now to enter either blindly or wilfully into so sacred and important a relationship as marriage, and to lower and stultify its ends by blighting the happiness of a fair young wife, exhausting his own vitality in the vain attempt to have offspring, or in having such as shall be a curse to him through life.