Unless sex is controlled, either by
mutual consent or by an enhanced knowledge and practise of eugenics
and improved education on sex matters, the mental hospitals and the divorce courts will continue to become overcrowded with those who have become psycho-neurotics after marriage, either through faults of their own creation or gross inability in controlling and regulating the primary physical factors of marriage, or through negligence in seeking guidance in their sexual, social and economic problems.
There can be no doubt that the sexual factor, therefore, is the dominating one and influences, and is influenced by, all other considerations.
The wife who submits to the excessive demand of her "mate" and is resigned to become pregnant annually is not the least of those who form a high percentage of the inmates of our mental institutions.
Equally the mate, his "animality" uncontrolled and unsubdued, is no less high in the "residents" list in the hospitals. He too, finds that his sex life has been a key factor in his breakdown. The husband becomes increasingly anxious to correct this trend and his anxieties help the neurosis and pre-dispose failure every time the act is attempted.
Neurotic men and women in this category are high in the list and their mental and physical degeneration could have been avoided by the knowledge and restraint of control. that should have been exercised with proper teaching without the risk of nervous deterioration which is so often alleged to be inevitable for those who do not satisfy the sex urge every time it occurs.
A properly regulated course of remedial physical culture can do much to restore nerve-balance and
to eliminate neurotic tendencies in the types of cases I have mentioned above.
MAN MAKING... "Thanks to you I am now a very happy, married man".
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You may be one of those sceptics who think that marriage itself is no great achievement, and like Emerson ask: "Is not marriage an open question when such as are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in?"
Whatever stand you take this pupil was destined to lead an unnatural, unhappy existence until he plucked up the necessary courage to put his mind and body on. a healthy plane.
Doctors had done their best for him and he was reaching an age when the chances and the desires for a natural and normal existence were fast fading.
woman
He was still, at 32, in the torment of this legacy of adolescence until Fate sprung a surprise and gave him the urge to love and as Shakespeare put it in "Julius Caesar" r" he cried out: "Oh ye Gods, Render me worthy of this noble wife!""
Read below how, from a state of apparent hopelessness this pupil, one of hundreds like him, can now say to his wife, "Behold me, for I am worthy of thy loving."
Case No. 44,409, aged 32. Symptoms: Anxiety Neurosis, Nervous Tension, Dizziness, Catarrh, Sexual Incompetence, had much medical treatment; desired to be fit for marriage. Writes :-
"I am now happy to send you my final report of progress and as you may know from my last report I have been married for a full month and the excitement of getting our new home in order, meeting so many people and the complete change of environment has had no ill-effect on my nerves and I no longer feel tensed-up, apprehensive and anxious about the future, for I am indeed a very happy married man.
The physical side of my marriage is extremely satisfying to both of us, something which has astonished me and I still cannot believe that I am the person who wrote to you not so long ago.
"The occasional twinges of anxiety which are a legacy of my past immaturity are now easily dismissed and to me the future seems perfectly clear and my work and all my interests have taken on a new meaning now that the excitement of the honeymoon is over and we are very busy getting the house in order.
"I have written to you so much about myself in the past and you know what I mean when I finish this report by saying 'Thanks a million'."
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THE GREATEST
LITTLE STRONG MAN
By Ray Furlong
The late W. A. Pullum proved that no physical handicap is too great to overcome. The chest to hang all those medals on took a great deal of courage and determination to achieve
DOCTORS said he was dying. No amount of medical care could arrest the disease which would end his young life. At seventeen this frail young man had no hope of surviving to his eighteenth birthday. Two years later, however, he became the strongest, fittest little man in the world. In the old music-hall days 'strong-man' acts usually had 'star' billing. Audiences watched their fantastic feats of strength in wide-eyed amazement. One evening in 1904 this seventeen-year-old youth, suffering from tuberculosis, went to see the show at London's Camberwell Palace of Variety. Top of the bill was a famous 'strong-man' act of that time called the Arthur Saxon Trio.
The unhealthy, delicate young man was enthralled by the mighty strength of these three giants of physical perfection. So impressed was he that, in the subdued light of that music-hall, he made a firm resolution to do something about his own underdeveloped physique. And so was born one of the most powerful little strong men this century has ever known. His name, W. A. Pullum.
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