These are the diseases the quacks thrive upon. These are the “Blood Diseases,” “Kidney Troubles,” sores on the scalp and body they advertise to cure. They know you are ignorant of the real truths concerning these awful diseases and they play up to that ignorance and bleed you for all you are worth. And when they get through with you there is a general ruin of both your brain and body.
Not one of us can avoid the danger of contracting these diseases; the germs are all around us to-day. You must know all about them to make you safe, your sister safe, your mother from running the risk of giving it to the little baby.
What, for pure, moral persons? Yes; these are just the people who should be armored against the plague. Knowledge will protect them; ignorance will not.
Then there is a lot you should know about the women who directly spread the plague. You must know all these things if you are to start in a career amidst life as it is to-day.
So important is all this subject and everything relating to it that I could not, in these Chats, go into the details. But I have written them all down in plain language and have not omitted a single fact about which you should know. The little book is entitled, “PLAIN FACTS ON SEX HYGIENE.”
I cannot thank you, boys, too much for your interest in listening to me. I have, I know, often repeated facts to you, and frequently rambled and been somewhat discursive. But remember these are CHATS, not studied speeches whose every word has been picked for its nicety. My heart has been always in what I have said to you, and you know sometimes when a fellow feels that way, he lets literary style go hang.
In closing I want to repeat to you the oath of the knights of old. I want you to take to your hearts:
“Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things,――and do them, and for them live and die.”
judiciously imparted is the greatest insurance toward the development of sterling manhood and womanhood. It is the duty of every man and woman to be informed upon the subject of sex and the care of the body. It is a subject vitally important to every individual.