Boys should let their beards grow. " The moment a boy begins to shave," says Dr. Holbrook, "he begins to look old. Shaving makes the hair of the face coarse. The beard is a valuable protection to the throat and lungs, and many persons have cured long-standing throat diseases by allowing the beard to grow. Shaving injures the skin of the face and takes off its healthy hue, and this is worse if the razor is dull. Shaving consumes much time and causes considerable annoyance. A handsome beard is a real ornament of which no man ought to be ashamed. Whenever inconveniently long let the beard be shapened but not shaved off. By all means, then, cultivate your beard. It will be quite a saving to you in time and money, if you live to be a old man, never to shave."

The windows of a sleeping room should be kept open during all bright, sunny days, and shut down at sundown in early spring and the damp November evenings, a fire being built in the fireplace.

Sleep in your room alone.

Prof. Watson, writing in the medical Laws of Life, says: "More quarrels arise between brothers, between sisters, between hired girls, between school-girls, between husbands and wives, owing to electrical changes through which their nervous systems go by lodging together night after night, under the same bedclothes, than by almost any other disturbing cause. There is nothing that will so derange the system of a person who is nervous and effeminate as to lie all night in bed with another person who is absorbent in nervous force. The absorber will go to sleep and rest all night, while the eliminator will be tumbling and tossing, restless and nervous, and wake up in the morning fretful, peevish, fault-finding and discouraged. No two persons, no matter who they are, should habitually sleep together. One will thrive and the other will lose. This is the law; and in married life it is defied almost universally."

Wash the feet each night if inclined to perspiration, before retiring, and also the lower parts of the body. Let this be remembered by both males and females. Sitz baths, containing a little borax or salt at times, are excellent both for health and cleanliness of person. It is astonishing how many fashionable and otherwise respectable people are neither clean nor sweet in their persons. The health and strength of the urinary and international organs require, especially in warm weather, frequent bathing and sponging. The importance of this should be taught the young, particularly before changing into maturity. Disagreeable odors from the armpits may be removed by a sponge and warm soft water containing a little ammonia.

Unsavory odors from the feet and pimples upon the face are indications of disease, and require constitutional treatment.

Personally, I admire a dark complexion, and have no dislike of freckles. Those who have may remove them by anointing the skin with the following mixture. Take of

Sulpho-carbolate of Zinc, 2 parts.

Glycerine, 25 parts.

Rose Water, 25 parts.

Spirits, 5 parts. Mix.

After anointing the skin twice a day with this, letting it remain on half an hour or more, wash off in cold soft water.

Others prefer this for the removal of freckles and tan. Take of

Simple Tincture of Benzoin, 1 oz.

Lavender Water, 1 pint.

Pure Carbolic Acid, 2 grains. Mix.

Wash the face two or three times a day, letting it remain thereon.

Morbid excitement, intense nervous activity, and especially all sexual indulgence, for indulgence's sake, cause languor, lassitude, moodiness, sensitiveness, irritability and general debility, pointing with bony finger to death and the grave. Wasted sex-power in the young, and even in marital life, is a fruitful cause of disease and physical degeneration.

The divine purpose of these interrelational or gans, aside from the daily demands of nature, is procreation, and all else, though denominated pleasure, conceals the hidden serpent that stings.

Passional indulgence during the period of gestation is, to the true ideal life, unnatural and monstrous. The flocks and herds that graze upon the hills do not indulge in the practice; such continence in animals, though called instinct, is admirable. And, further, during these precious months for the moulding of an immortal being, passional indulgence not only impresses mental idiosyncracies, and sometimes produces, as physicians well know, physical deformities, but it imparts tendencies to solitary vice and sexual weaknesses, and so the young suffer for the sins of their ancestors.

This subject demands plain talk. No philanthropist or trained physician has a particle of sympathy with this prudish, mawkish false modesty that the shallow-pated strive to throw around the uses and abuses of the generative organs. God made them; and what God has seen fit to create it is our privilege and duty to study and, so far we can, to comprehend. To the pure all things, rightly understood and rightly used, are pure.

In the estimation of all sensible and religious people the organs of the body, the temple of the spirit, are sacred. Those who for mere effect are too pain fully nice and too exquisitely modest to gaze upon the naked figures in a sculptor's studio, or to investigate the laws of sexual life, that they may know themselves, are generally at heart grossly depraved, being secretly guilty of what the apostle Paul termed "the unfruitful works of darkness" "Many a man and woman," says Dr. E. P. Miller, "would shun the society of a profligate, and shrink from one who would sell her virtue for gain as from a viper or a scorpion; yet they themselves, under cover of the marriage rite, are just as guilty in the sight of God with regard to the sacred laws of their bodies as those whom they condemn." Those who have the least purity and virtue often assume the most; they do so to hide their own personal corruption.

It is necessarily embarrassing, of course, to those who have transmitted strong passional tendencies to their children to correct them for sexual sinning. "Like father, like son," is too often true; and if others attempt to correct this class of lads, or reprove them in private, they are liable to be misunderstood and their motives impugned; for many of these forward young lads, as secretive as they are unclean, will, when taught the necessity of personal purity, the original purpose of circumcision, the dangers of phimosis, the indecency of low, vulgar allusions, the baseness of loose, vile conversation and the depletion caused by unnatural magnetic manipulation, misinterpret, falsify and even accuse their well-intentioned instructors of the very vices of which they themselves are guilty. Such proved to be the case a few years ago in the Brooklyn High School, causing, at first, scandal and blame to fall upon the teacher.