What a Young Wife Ought to Know (Self and Sex Series)

293, [15] pp. Hoolihan 987: "Originally published at Philadelphia in 1901. The twenty-four chapters of Drake's treatise cover such topics as women's health (e.g., dress, exercise & fresh air); marriage (e.g. choosing a husband, woman's place in the home, balancing duties in the home with outside activities); sex (e.g., attitude and behavior in conjugal relations, the importance of heredity, abortion); pregnancy and its disorders; motherhood and fatherhood; infant care and child rearing." By the Idaho women's suffragist, a medical doctor, a temperance advocate, an author, a minister's wife, or an Idaho state legislator. (Chadwick Pearsall, Alexander Street)