This Yankee nation claims to be a nation of inventors, but the discovery of male continence puts you, in my mind, at the head of all inventors. There has been no higher conservation of force than that realised by this method, and I am confident that the blessings which will flow from it cannot be measured by those which have followed the steam engine and the electric telegraph.
A school friend of mine who lived in a large manufacturing town in New York State, and has been married five years, had learned during the first months of marriage this method of birth control. She was radiant with happiness; did not desire a child until they had made provision for the future. Husband worked ten hours in the electrical works, after which he played a cornet in a concert, which kept him until after midnight every night. Such long hours of labor would deplete and exhaust the average man, but this fellow was as radiant and strong as one could picture. Both claimed it is the practice of this method to which they owe their health, strength, and happiness.
A grandmother came from San Francisco to assist at the birth of a grandchild. Had been married thirty-five years, but looked like a girl of twenty-eight in figure and color. I was amazed at the vivacity and eagerness and joyous health of this woman. Every day she received one or two letters from her husband, who had remained in San Francisco; and from part of them which she read to me one would think he was some ardent and forlorn lover of eighteen. She claimed she had always practised this method, and knew of a few others who practised it, and found its practice superior to any other. She was the most beautiful sexually alive woman I have ever known, and the most modest. “True modesty is a sentiment which springs, not from indifference or aversion to the sexual offices, but from a delicate and reverent appreciation of their value.”
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