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HOW TO MAKE LEADING PATENT MEDICINES.

SEIDLITZ POWDERS.

            Soda et potas. tart .................... 2 drachms
            Bicarbonate of soda .................... 2 scruples
                (in blue paper)
            Tartaric acid .......................... 35 grains
                (in white paper)

        Dissolve contents of blue paper in half a pint of water, to
    which those of the white paper are added, and the whole is
    taken in a state of effervescence.

JAYNE'S EXPECTORANT.

            Syrup of squills ....................... 2 ounces
            Tincture of tolu ....................... 1-1/2 ounces
            Tincture of lobelia .................... 1  drachm
            Tincture of digitalis .................. 1  drachm
            Laudanum ............................... 2  drachms
            Spirits of camphor ..................... 1  drachm
            Wine of ipecac ......................... 2 drachms
            Tartar emetic .......................... 2  grains

        Dose: A teaspoonful every three or four hours.  Used in
    coughs, colds, hoarseness, and so forth.

HELMBOLD'S BUCHU.

            Buchu .................................. 1/2 ounce
            Uva ursi ............................... 2-1/2 drachms
            Licorice ............................... 1/4 ounce
            Caramel ................................ 1  ounce
            Ex. cubebs fld ......................... 5  drachms
            Alcohol ................................ 4  ounces
            Oil peppermint ......................... 1  drachm
            Water, sufficient to make .............. 24  ounces

        Dose: A teaspoonful four times a day. Used in affections of
    the kidneys and bladder.

SCHENCK'S PULMONIC SYRUP.

            Wormwood ............................... 1 ounce
            Catnip ................................. 1 ounce
            Tansy .................................. 1 ounce
            Hyssop ................................. 1 ounce
            Hoarhound .............................. 1 ounce
            Hops ................................... 1 ounce
            Chamomile .............................. 1 ounce
            Comfrey ................................ 1 ounce
            Senegae ................................ 1 ounce
            Elecampane ............................. 1 ounce

        Boil with water sufficient to make two quarts and add gum
    arabic 3 ounces, licorice 3 ounces, and add 1 turnip, sugar 6
    pounds, brandy 16 ounces.

        Dose: One dessertspoonful three or four times a day. Used
    in incipient consumption, bronchitis, and so forth.

SAINT JACOB'S OIL.

        Contains water, ether, alcohol, aconite and red-coloring
    matter.
        Used as an external application in rheumatism, sprains,
    bruises, and so forth.

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SAGEE'S CATARRH REMEDY.

            Sodii salicylat ........................ 2 drachms
            Sodii biborat .......................... 3 drachms
            Glycerine .............................. 4 drachms
            Water .................................. Sufficient to make 4 ounces

        A dessertspoonful in a pint of water. Mix, and use with
    atomizer in nostrils three or four times a day. Used for
    catarrh, rhinitis, and so forth.

BAY RUM.

            Oil of bay ............................. 4 drachms
            Oil of orange .......................... 15 minims
            Oil of pimento ......................... 15 minims
            Alcohol ................................ 40 ounces
            Water .................................. 25 ounces

        Mix oils with alcohol, add water, set aside for eight days
    and filter.

GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER.

            Rhubarb ................................ 6  drachms
            Golden seal ............................ 1-1/2 drachms
            Aloes .................................. 1  drachm
            Carbonate potash ....................... 16  grains
            Peppermint ............................. 2  drachms
            Cayenne pepper ......................... 5  grains
            Alcohol ................................ 3  ounces
            Sugar .................................. 8  ounces
            Water .................................. 10  ounces

        Macerate the drugs in alcohol eight days, strain and add
    the water to make eight pints.

        Dose: A teaspoonful four times a day. Used in liver
    diseases, constipation, and so forth.

WARNER'S SAFE CURE.

            Powdered saltpetre ..................... 2  drachms
            Liverwort .............................. 1  ounce
            Alcohol ................................ 2  ounces
            Glycerine .............................. 1-1/2 ounces
            Spirits wintergreen .................... 40  drops
            Water .................................. 8  ounces

        Dose: A dessertspoonful three times a day. Used in kidney
    and bladder diseases.

HOP BITTERS.

            Hops ................................... 4  ounces
            Orange peel ............................ 2  ounces
            Dandelion .............................. 2  ounces
            Buchu .................................. 1  ounce
            May-apple .............................. 1/2 ounce
            Sugar .................................. 16  ounces
            Alcohol ................................ 16  ounces
            Water .................................. 3  pints

        Dose: A tablespoonful three or four times a day.

IODIA.

            Stillingia root ........................ 4  ounces
            Helonias root .......................... 2  ounces
            Saxafraga root ......................... 5  ounces
            Menispermum root ....................... 5  ounces
            Aromatic powder ........................ 5  drachms
            Iodide of potash ....................... 3-1/2 drachms
            Phos. iron (to each teaspoonful) ....... 4-1/2 drachms

        A teaspoonful for dose, three or four times a day.  Used as
    an alterative or blood purifier.

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SYRUP OF FIGS.

        Composed of juice of figs, Alexandria senna, aromatics.

        A teaspoonful as occasion requires. Used as a simple, safe
    and reliable laxative.

WINE OF PEPSIN.

            Pepsin ................................. 3  drachms
            Sherry wine ............................ 6-1/2 ounces
            Glycerine .............................. 1-1/2 ounces
            Tartaric acid .......................... 5  grains

        A teaspoonful after meals.  Used for dyspepsia,
    indigestion, attacks of colic, and so forth.

SCOTT'S EMULSION.

        Each ounce represents

            Cod-liver oil .......................... 50 per cent.
            Hypophosphite of lime .................. 6 grains
            Hypophosphite of soda .................. 3 grains

        Dose: A tablespoonful three or four times a day. Used in
    consumption and wasting diseases.

COMPOUND SYRUP OF WHITE PINE.

        Each ounce represents

            White pine bark ........................ 30 grains
            Wild cherry bark ....................... 30 grains
            Spikenard .............................. 4 grains
            Balm gilead buds ....................... 5 grains
            Blood root ............................. 3 grains
            Sassafras bark ......................... 2 grains
            Sulphate of morphia .................... 3-16 grain
            Chloroform ............................. 4 minims

        Dose: A teaspoonful three or four times daily. Used for
    coughs, colds, asthmatic affections, hoarseness, and so forth.

HORSFORD'S ACID PHOSPHATE.

        Contains phosphate lime, phosphate magnesia, phosphate
    potash, phosphate iron.

        Dose: Ten to fifteen drops in wineglass of water every
    three or four hours. Used in cases of dyspepsia, indigestion,
    and so forth.

VIN MARIANI.

            Fresh coca leaves ...................... 3 ounces
            Port wine .............................. 1 pint

        Dose: A wineglass three times a day.  Used in acid
    digestion---fortifies and strengthens the system.

PEPTO-MANGANI—TONIC.

        Each tablespoonful contains

            Peptonate of iron ...................... 1-1/2 grains
            Peptonate of manganese ................. 1/4 grain

        Used in anemia or where the blood is deficient in red
    corpuscles. Dose: A teaspoonful three or four times a day.

PILL. CASCARA CATHARTIC.

            Cascarin ............................... 12-1/2 grains
            Aloin .................................. 12-1/2 grains
            Podophyllin ............................ 8  grains
            Ex. Belladonna ......................... 6  grains
            Strychnine ............................. 1  grain
            Gingerine .............................. 6  grains

        Make fifty pills. Take two pills at commencement, then
    follow with one pill every two or three hours until relieved.

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ONE HUNDRED STANDARD PATENT MEDICINES.

ABBEY'S EFFERVESCENT SALT.
For sluggish liver and attendant disorders.

ARLINGTON CHEMICAL CO.'S PEPTONOIDS,
In liquid and powder forms. A food in convenient forms for weak digestion.

AUBERGIER'S LACTUCARIUM SYRUP AND LOZENGES.
For coughs, colds, hoarseness, and so forth.

ANTIPHLOGISTINE.
A clay in ointment form for absorbing inflammation.

AYER'S CATHARTIC PILLS.
Laxative, cathartic, and so forth.

AYER'S CHERRY PECTORAL.
For various affections of the lungs and throat.

AYER'S SARSAPARILLA.
For complaints arising from impurities of the blood.

BEECHAM'S PATENT PILLS.
For torpid liver, indigestion, and so forth.

ELAIR'S RHEUMATIC AND GOUT PILLS.
For rheumatism, gout, and so forth.

BRANDRETH'S PILLS.
Laxative, cathartic, sour stomach, and so forth.

BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES.
For coughs, colds, hoarseness and bronchial irritation.

BULL'S GOUGH SYRUP.
For coughs, colds, and so forth.

CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS.
For biliousness, torpid liver, constipation, sallow skin, and so forth.

CASCARETS.
A candy cathartic for chronic constipation.

CASTORIA.
For assimilating the food and regulating the stomach and bowels of infants and children.

CROSBY'S VITALIZED PHOSPHITES.
Brain and nerve food. Useful in the deficient mental and bodily growth of infants and children.

CUTICURA RESOLVENT.
For purifying the blood.

CUTICURA.
A salve for eruptions of the skin and unrivaled as a hair dressing.

BELAVAU'S WHOOPING-COUGH REMEDY.
For whooping-cough and croup.

DENTACURA.
An antiseptic and detergent tooth paste.

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ELY'S CREAM BALM.
For catarrh, catarrhal deafness, hay fever and cold in the head.

EMERSON'S BROMO-SELTZER.
For nervous headache, sleeplessness, over fatigue, and so forth.

ENTONA (HEALTH FOOD CO.'S WHITE WHEAT GLUTEN SUPPOSITORIES).
For hemorrhoids and constipation.

FAIRCHILD'S PANOPEPTON.
A food composed of beef and wheat in soluble and absorbable form

FELLOW'S COMPOUND SYRUP OF HYPOPHOSPHITES.
An ideal reconstructive tonic.

GLYCO-THYMOLINE (KRESS).
An alkaline antiseptic and non-irritating solution.

GRAY'S GLYCERINE TONIC COMPOUND.
For diseases of chest and throat. Useful where stomach is weak.

GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER.
For dyspepsia in all forms.

GUDE'S PEPTO-MANGAN.
A widely-known and prescribed tonic.

H. H. H. MEDICINE.
A liniment for general purposes for man or beast.

HAGEE'S COD-LIVER OIL CORDIAL.
A tonic stimulant in palatable form.

HANCE BROS. AND WHITE'S PHENOL-SODIQUE.
An antiseptic and disinfectant for all purposes.

HAINE'S GOLDEN SPECIFIC.
Recommended for intemperance.

HEISKELL'S OINTMENT.
For tetter, erysipelas and eruptions of the skin.

HEMABALOIDS.
A blood enricher and alterative.

HEMAPEPTONE.
Organic iron. A useful tonic.

HOPE'S EXTRACT OF MALT.
A stimulant and aid to weak digestion.

HOLMES' FRAGRANT FROSTILLA.
A useful toilet article.

HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA.
An alterative, tonic and blood purifier.

HUMPHREY'S MARVEL OF HEALING.
A pure distillate of witch-hazel recommended for household and stable uses.

HUMPHREY'S WITCH HAZEL OIL.
A hemorrhoidal and general salve.

TAYNE'S ALTERATIVE.
As it is called a good alterative.

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JAYNE'S CARMINATIVE BALSAM.
For dysentery, diarrhoea, cholera morbus, sick headache, etc

JAYNE'S EXPECTORANT.
For coughs, colds, bronchial affections and irritations.

JAYNE'S SANATIVE PILLS.
For constipation and disorders of the liver.

JAYNE'S TONIC VERMIFUGE.
For removal of worms and in aid to digestion.

JOHNSON'S DIGESTIVE TABLETS.
For dyspepsia and indigestion.

JUNIPER TAR (WHITEHURST'S).
For colds, cough, irritations of bronchial tubes and mucous membranes.

KEASBEY AND MATTISON CO.'S ALKALITHIA.
A handy effervescent salt for all forms of rheumatism.

KEASBEY AND MATTISON CO.'S BROMO-CAFFEINE.
A handy effervescent salt for brain workers.

KILMER'S SWAMP ROOT.
For acute and chronic kidney and liver disease.

MALTINE.
A concentrated extract of malted barley, wheat and oats. An efficient aid to sound and healthy digestion.

LACTOPEPTINE.
An aid to perfect digestion. In powder, liquid or tablet form.

LAVILLE'S GOUT REMEDY.
For rheumatic and gouty disorders.

LAXATIVE BROMO-QUININE TABLETS.
A remedy for coughs, colds and headache.

LISTERINE.
A widely used antiseptic, prophylactic and disenfectant.

NATURAL CARLSBAD SALT.
An effervescent salt known as nature's aperient.

OMEGA OIL.
A household liniment, for aches, pains and soreness.

OSGOOD'S INDIA CHOLAGOGUE.
For malaria, chills and fever, and so forth.

PAINE'S CELERY COMPOUND.
A nerve tonic, active alterative, laxative and diuretic.

PERUNA.
A tonic used in catarrhal, dyspeptic and kidney disorders.

PHILLIPS' EMULSION OF COD-LIVER OIL.
A valuable remedy combined with wheat phosphates.

PHILLIPS' MILK OF MAGNESIA.
A mild laxative and an excellent dentrifice.

PHOSPHAGON.
A natural nerve nutrient.

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PIERCE'S FAVORITE PRESCRIPTION.
For chronic weaknesses of women.

PIERCE'S GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY.
A remedy for chronic or lasting ailments.

PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND.
A remedy for diseases of women.

POND'S EXTRACT.
A reliable remedy for many purposes.

RADWAY'S READY RELIEF.
Used externally as a liniment and internally as a counter-irritant.

RESINAL.
An ointment for all forms of inflammations, eruptions and irritations of the skin.

RIPANS TABULES.
For stomach troubles.

RUSSELL EMULSION.
A tonic composed of mixed fats or oils.

SAGE'S CATARRH REMEDY.
For catarrh, hay fever, influenza, and so forth.

SANITOL.
A liquid, paste or powder for the teeth.

SANTAL-MIDY CAPSULES.
For venereal diseases.

SCHENCK'S MANDRAKE PILLS.
For biliousness and liver complaint.

SCHENCK'S PULMONIC SYRUP.
For consumption, diseases of the lungs and respiratory organs.

SCHENCK'S SEAWEED TONIC.
For dyspepsia.

SCOTT'S EMULSION OF COD-LIVER OIL.
For pulmonary diseases, coughs, colds and general debility.

SHEFFIELD'S CREAM DENTIFRICE.
A paste for cleansing the teeth.

SLOAN'S LINIMENT.
Known as the "Killer of Pain."

SLOCUM'S COLT'S FOOT EXPECTORANT.
For coughs, colds, influenza, and so forth.

SLOCUM'S OZOMULSION.
For throat, chest and lung troubles, a flesh and strength producer.

SLOCUM'S PSYCHINE.
For disorders of throat and lungs.

SOZODONT.
For preserving, cleansing the teeth and hardening the gums.

STEARN'S WINE OF COD-LIVER OIL.
A palatable compound of cod-liver oil and iron.

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STUART'S DYSPEPSIA TABLETS.
For stomach and intestinal indigestion or dyspepsia.

SWAIM'S PANACEA.
A very old and widely known blood purifier.

SWAYNE'S OINTMENT.
For tetter, itch, ring-worm and eruptions of the skis.

SWAYNE'S PANACEA.
For all forms of blood humors.

SWIFT'S SPECIFIC.
A blood purifier for syphilitic disorders.

SYRUP OF FIGS.
For habitual constipation.

TARRANT'S SELTZER APERIENT.
For indigestion, headache and constipation.

THYMOZONE.
An antiseptic and prophylactic for internal and external uses.

VAPO-CRESOLENE.
A remedy for whooping-cough, asthma, catarrh, and so forth.

VIN MARIANA.
A coca wine tonic.

WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION OF COD-LIVER OIL.
In a tasteless form; tonic for all wasting diseases.

WARNER'S BROMO SODA.
For headache, sleeplessness, and so forth.

WARNER'S SAFE CURE.
For kidney and liver diseases.

WAMPOLE'S ANTISEPTIC SOLUTION.
A valuable antiseptic and germicide.

WALTHER'S PEPTONIZED PORT.
For all forms of dyspepsia, mal-nutrition, and so forth.

WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS.
A blood builder and nerve tonic.

WYETH'S BEEF, IRON AND WINE.
A nutritive tonic for impaired nutrition, impoverished blood and general debility.

 

APPROVED PATENT FOODS FOR INFANTS, INVALIDS AND THE AGED.

ALLENBURY'S FOODS.
No. 1, milk food for first three months.
No. 2, milk food for second three months.
No. 3, malted food after six months.

ANGLO-SWISS MILK (SWISS BRAND).
Recommended very highly as an infant's food, being an unchangeable brand.

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BENGER'S FOOD.
For infants, invalids and the aged.

BLAIR'S PREPARED WHEAT FOOD.
Recommended for all ages.

CARNRICK'S LACTO-PREPARATA.
The first food; resembling human milk.

CARNRICK'S SOLUBLE FOOD.
Usually recommended after infancy.

CARNRICK'S KUMYSGEN.
Called the "Ideal Food." For any age where digestion is weak.

EAGLE CONDENSED MILK.
Recommended as a general household food.

ESKAY'S ALBUMENIZED FOOD.
Used from infancy to old age. Highly endorsed by physicians.

FAIRCHILD'S PEPTOGENIC MILK POWDER.
For modifying cow's milk and rendering it a readily assimilated food.

HORLICK'S DIASTOID.
A diastasic dry extract of malt. In both powder and tablet forms. A valuable addition to milk, and so forth, to aid digestion.

HORLICK'S FOOD.
For infants and invalids.

HORLICK'S MALTED MILK.
A widely known food for all ages. Being used as a powder and lunch tablet. Can justly be called the staff of life.

HUBBELL'S PREPARED WHEAT.
Made from wheat flour and baked.

IMPERIAL GRANUM.
From wheat. Useful as an infant's food and in all gastric and enteric fevers.

JUST'S DIETETIC CEREAL FOOD.
For infants, invalids, and so forth.

KEASBEY AND MATTISON CO.'S INFANTS' FOOD.
Made from malted grains.

LIEBE'S SOLUBLE FOOD.
For infants, invalids, and so forth.

MELLIN'S FOOD.
Widely known as a reliable food for infants, and so forth. The manufacturers point with pride to its "heavy-weights."

MOXEY'S CEREALINA.
A food known as a preparation of debranned wheat from the formula of Dr. John G. Moxey.

NESTLE'S MILK FOOD.
Recommended by some-eminent physicians of Europe as an ideal food tor infants.

NESTLE'S SWISS MILK.
Recommended from infancy to old age.

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RIDGE'S FOOD.
For infants, invalids and all ages.

ROBINSON'S PATENT BARLEY.
An infant's food and highly useful for making sick-room dainties.

TAYLOR'S BERMUDA ARROWROOT.
Known for many ages past as the baby's own.

WAMPOLE'S MILK FOOD.
Made from malted cereals, beef and milk. Used in powdered form for invalids and infants and in tablet form as a luncheon dainty.

WELLS, RICHARDSON AND CO.'S CEREAL MILK.
Cereal grains. Known as a predigested food. Recommended by physicians generally.

WELLS, RICHARDSON AND CO.'S LACTATED FOOD.
Resembling human milk and a widely-known infants', and so forth, food.

WYETH'S PREPARED FOOD.
Malted milk and cereals. Recommended for all ages by eminent physicians and produced by a laboratory renowned for reliable products.



Foods in liquid forms, being valuable additions and adjuncts for the sickroom.

Used in drop doses for infants to teaspoonfuls for advancing years.

ANKER'S BOUILLON CAPSULES.
Beef extract in handy and convenient form.

ARMOUR'S BEEF EXTRACT AND VEGETABLE TABLETS.
BOVININE. From formulae of Dr. Bush, valuable in all ages.

FAIRCHILD'S PEPTONIZING TUBES.
A powder used in peptonizing milk and foods for the sick.

HANSEN'S JUNKET TABLETS.
The handy sickroom dainty makers. Eagerly taken by young and old.

MELLIN'S FOOD BISCUITS.
Mellin's food in compact, convenient form.

MURDOCK'S LIQUID FOOD.
Beef, mutton and fruits. Strength producer.

MULFORD'S PRE-DIGESTED BEEF.
Recommended by physicians generally as the invalid's helper.

PERFECTION LIQUID FOOD.
A predigested beef and concentrated extract of malt suggested by Dr. Guernsey.

SOMATOSE AND SOMATOSE BISCUIT.
A beef extract in powdered form. The biscuit admirable for the well man's luncheon.

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TROPHONINE.
A highly nutritious liquid food, easily absorbed and has revived the patient when others have failed.

VALENTINE'S BEEF JUICE.
Eeadily mixed in cold water and free from objectionable properties.

WAMPOLE'S LIQUID WHEAT.
A brain and nerve food. Beneficial in promoting growth in children and readily enters into the building up of any deficiencies.

WYETH'S BEEF JUICE.
A carefully made extract of beef, easily administered and assimilated.

 

ENTERING UPON MARRIAGE.

Courtship.—The object of courtship should be to study dispositions and affinities, also mental and physical conditions. Falling in love first and then courting is substituting blindness for sight, folly for discretion.

Association.—Both young men and women should mingle freely in a social way before entering on courtship, for genuine courtship implies more or less direction of attention to a single person, and therefore a measure of social exclusion.

Length of Courtship.—Courtship should never be hasty. It should be prolonged until both parties are satisfied of the mutual existence of the qualities which will conduce to conjugal happiness.

Engagement.—Engagements should, as a rule, be brief. The spectacle of engaged couples trying each other's patience for years by delaying marriage is a pitiable one. The contract entered into becomes a mortgage without interest.

Affinity.—Affinity differs from love. It may exist in the marriage estate, and be productive of comfort and happiness in the absence of the sentiment of love. Yet it cannot be said that the converse of this ever, or, at least, frequently is true. Affinity rests on a variety of causes.

Mental Condition.—Mental affinity is necessary to married happiness. An ignorant man or woman should not mate with one of education, nor vice versa. It cannot be said that such a union is devoid of all certainty as to happiness, but the chances for unhappiness are too great to risk.

Marriageable Age.—In temperate climates the proper marriageable age is not reached before maturity, when nature has completed and perfected the organic structure; that is to say, marriage may be entered upon with propriety at from twenty to twenty-five years of age. Earlier marriage is likely to entail injury to health and comfort upon the wife; while marriage at a late period in life is apt to lead to puny and sickly children. Any material disproportion in the ages of man and wife should be avoided.

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Marriage and Longevity.—It is a definitely ascertained result of marriage that it lengthens life, where the estate is entered upon with discretion, and conducted in a proper manner.

Ill Health and Marriage.—The marriage of unhealthy persons is liable to lead to distressing consequences. Hereditary transmission of diseases enters into the moral as well as physical order of things. This is especially true of consumptives and scrofulous people, who, as a rule, are prolific. Even if the exact hereditary taint does not pass to the offspring, there is liability to a train of the common diseases which mar comfort and destroy life.

Money and Marriage.—Marriages of convenience, that is, for money, ease or distinction, are to be deprecated. The fortune-hunter, pure and simple, is never a disinterested lover, nor a considerate life partner. The spirit of mercenariness, which prompts an alliance for convenience, grows by what it feeds upon, and is an enemy to conjugal harmony and happiness.

Religion.—Likeness in religious sentiment is necessary to conjugal happiness. It is not necessary that the man and wife should belong to the same church. What is meant is that there should be tolerance of the religious views and pious sentiments of each other. The indifferent man or woman, the intolerant, the mocking, the profane may speedily wreck the happiness, and even health, of a partner, for there is no sentiment that lies deeper, or is more sensitive, than that of piety and religion.

Tastes.—These should be so nearly akin in man and wife as to assure adaptability and accord. When a wife sees beauty in an object and a husband only ugliness, or when one is tidy and the other careless, there are constant grounds for reproachful differences, ending in unhappiness.

Mutuality .—In general, mutuality in the conjugal estate is a sharpener of love and respect, a helper to the further and fuller exercise of whatever ripens and completes manhood and womanhood, and conduces to the perfection of the estate.

Physical Characteristics.—Affinity, adaptability and all characteristics of a mental, moral and sentimental nature, which are generally recognized as essential to married happiness, do not necessarily include physical likenesses. While two unhealthy people may not marry for fear of perpetuating disease in their offspring, such fear may not prevent the alliance of a sturdy constitution with a delicate one. Oftentimes marriage improves a delicate organization; at least, there is a possibility of the robust man or woman so modifying the condition of offspring as to eliminate hereditary disease tendencies, and produce a healthy generation.

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Physical Forms.—Intercourse in the lower animals and in plants is so regulated by experts as to lead to great improvements in the species. This is equally possible in mankind. The tendency to over-proportion in male or female lines may be corrected by marriage of a large partner with one of small size. The same is true of complexions. The brunette may well marry with the blonde, with the hope of modifying parental complexions in offsprings. Some theorists carry this matter much further, and say that those having the same color of eyes should not marry; and they say the same of the hair. So large-boned people should marry those of small bones; beauty should marry homeliness; nervous people should marry their opposites; those of strong facial contour should marry those with less decided physiognomies; and so on; all, of course, with the hope of curing in their posterity what may pass for defects in the parents; or, if not defects, at least so modifying physical forms as to produce a more satisfactory form.

The Final Resolve.—Courtship has made the contemplated partners acquainted with one another. They have talked over their aims and ambitions. They have plighted troths and sealed a contract. Among the Hebrews this was the equivalent of marriage. The final resolve should, therefore, be to carry into and through the marriage estate all those high agreements which love prompted, hope cherished, and thoughtful consideration of the future suggested.

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