Confidential Chats with Boys

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William Lee Howard. Confidential Chats with Boys

Confidential Chats with Boys

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I. THE BODY AS A MACHINE

CHAPTER II. THE OUTSIDE LUNGS—THE SKIN

CHAPTER III. HOW ALL LIFE COMMENCES

CHAPTER IV. CARE OF SELF DURING PUBERTY

CHAPTER V. NIGHT EMISSIONS AND THE BOY’S WORRY

CHAPTER VI. SELF-ABUSE—HOW TO STOP IT—THE QUACKS

CHAPTER VII. YOUR VOCATION AND HOW TO FIT YOURSELF FOR IT

CHAPTER VIII. ENVIRONMENTS AND DISEASES WHICH RUST BRAIN-TOOLS

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William Lee Howard

Published by Good Press, 2022

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Americans have absorbed much of the energy in the world, but not all its wisdom. Too many of our athletic instructors at the schools have tried to turn out athletes instead of strong men and women.

When we read in the daily papers of the collapse of a celebrated athlete, or the breaking down during training of a young aspirant for honors on the cinder path, we naturally surmise that fundamental knowledge of the physiology of the muscular mechanism of the human body is either submerged by the overpowering desire to make a record or is totally absent among certain trainers and their pupils.

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