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POWER AND BEAUTY OF SUPERB WOMANHOOD
By Bernarr Macfadden

You cannot afford to be without this new book. It is worth its weight is gold to any woman with brains enough to read, think and act. It will enable her to make something of herself. It will enable her to develop her highest attainable degree of beauty and power of body. It will save many thousands of dollars in doctor's bills. Every book is sold with a guarantee to return the money to every dissatisfied purchaser.

PARTIAL CONTENTS

SUPERB WOMANHOOD. Its great value. Marvelous, all-inspiring power of beauty. Beauty ran be retained to advanced age.

PRESENT PHYSICAL CONDITION OF WOMAN. Woman can be almost equal in strength to man.

CAUSES OF WRECKED WOMANHOOD. Abnormal and weakening influences begin in babyhood. Overfeeding, excessive clothing, bad air, fear of sunlight.

FEARFUL RESULTS OF PRUDISHNESS. The kindergarten of all evils which follow. Filthy minds produce filthy bodies. Plain duty of mothers and fathers. Must daughters secure their knowledge from vulgar associates, or from pure sources?

MARITAL EXCESSES. Marriage a physical anion, founded on physical attraction. Instinct the only right guide in "falling in love." nfluences before marriage prevent the development of this instinct. Depraved idea of modern marriage.

CRUSHING THE PLAY SPIRIT. This natural Instinct created in every growing girl. A crime to crush it.

CORSETS. Origin of the use of this device. False standard of beauty perpetuates it. Delicacy no longer a sign of beauty.

CORSETS WEAKEN DIGESTION: Cramped lungs and stomach cannot make rich blood. Vigor of early youth able to resist its baneful influence.

CORSETS INCREASE NATURAL SIZE OF WAIST.

CORSETS AGE WOMEN PREMATURELY.

CORSETS DESTROY WOMANHOOD. They take away or present the complete development of womanly instinct. The deadly downward pressure of corsets misplaces, weakens and destroys the organs of sex.

THE EVILS OF TIGHT SKIRTS, SHOES, ETC.

OPERATIONS THAT ARE CRIMES.

CAN WRECKED WOMANHOOD BE RECLAIMED? All can be vastly improved.

DIET. The great importance of proper foods.

FASTING CURES. How to fast to produce results.

HOW EXERCISE BEAUTIFIES THE BODY. Sparta's beautiful woman.

PHOTOGRAPHS OF DEFECTIVE FIGURES.

EXERCISES FOR DEVELOPING SUPPLENESS AND SYMMETRY. A special system of exercises illustrated by photographs.

EXERCISES FOR BUST DEVELOPMENT.

EXERCISES FOR REMEDYING PHYSICAL DEFECTS

EXERCISES FOR REMEDYING FEMALE WEAKNESSES.

Physical Culture Publishing Co.
New York City.