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341 have but one child, or that they will have no children at all. [bracket] Another reason for the practice which wd. appear to affect the wife only, but which has frequently much weight with the husband also, is that the American Lady's unclear is not under any circumstances a long one. She has generally considerable personal attractions, but the climate & the habit of living are so trying that beauty is very short-lived. The young wife therefore argues, "my good time will under any circumstances be short, why therefore sd. I prematurely dilapidate myself by having half a dozen [bracket] children? And indeed what wd. that come to, but that i sd. have no good time at all, for the whole of it wd. be given up to the nursery? And by the time this wd. be over, I sd. be nothing but a wreck; my good looks will have disappeared, & I shall have fallen into premature old age." I met with husbands who themselves justified the practise on these grounds. They did not wish to have their wives, during the whole period of their good looks, in the nursery. There is no secret as to the various means unclear to for carrying out these unnatural resolutions. They are advertised in every newspaper & there are unclear of the art in abundance, judging from the advertisements, in every city. There is one large establishment in the most fashionable street in the city of New York, from whence the great High Priestess of this evil system dispenses her drugs & advice, &