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The author is an idealist who recognizes the sacredness of the sex function and the right of children to be loved and desired before they are born. Very, very few of us can say truly that we were the outcome of the conscious desire of our parents to beget us. They, however, were not to blame because they had not the knowledge which would have enabled them to control conception.
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SEX CONDUCT IN MARRIAGE
By BERNARD BERNARD Editor-in-Chief of “Health and Life”
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When the Sex Function Should Be Used. Sex Tragedies in Childhood. The Consummation of Marriage. The Art of a Beautiful Conception. Sex Communion. The Scientific Control of Conception. Sex Fear Destroyed. The Frequency of the Sex Act. The Initiation to Matrimony. Anatomy and Physiology of the Sex Organs. The Spontaneous Expression of Love. Why Women Have Been Subjected. Men Who Marry in Ignorance. Hereditary Passion. Marriage a Joy to the End.
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_Paul Ellsworth Triem’s Latest Novel_
The Evening Wolves
_An Exciting Tale of Weird Events_
_CHAPTER ONE_
AH WING RECEIVES A CLIENT
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A taxicab stopped on the corner, and two people got out. They formed a decidedly incongruous pair; for the first to alight was a diminutive Chinese boy, scantily dressed, while his companion appeared to be a portly white man.
It was impossible to be sure of this fact, however, as this second passenger wore a long overcoat, with its ulster collar turned up around his face, and a dark cloth cap with the visor drawn down over his forehead and eyes.
Evidently the cab driver had been paid in advance, for he swung out from the curb as soon as his fares had dismounted, and was soon out of sight. The Chinese boy glanced at his companion, then set off silently up a street whose central portion was paved with cobblestones.
He seemed to know just where he was going. He paused only once, to cast a fleeting glance over his shoulder. Then he resumed his journey.
He had seen that the man in the ulster was following; and now, after traversing half a block of squalid, deserted street, the youngster turned abruptly into a pestilential-looking alley. This alley lay close to the top of a hill, and for a moment the man and the boy, who appeared to be his guide, could look down over the roofs to where the gay lights of Chinatown twinkled alluringly.
Presently the diminutive Oriental paused just outside a doorway. The man who had been following him came up, with a curious suggestion of eagerness and suspicion. Looking over the shoulder of the figure before him, he was able to make out the entrance to a narrow flight of unlighted stairs, which plunged steeply into the earth beneath a dilapidated building.
“Do we have to go down there, boy?” the man demanded.
“All a-same down here, master,” the youngster replied. “You come close—I show you!”
He began to descend as he spoke; and the man, after a moment of hesitation, plunged through the doorway after him. His manner was that of one who is taking a horribly unpleasant remedy, hoping to cure a still more horrible disease.