Growing Up (de Schweinitz)

by Karl de Schweinitz

For works with similar titles, see Growing Up.

Growing Up

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Out of the everywhere.
Painting by Ralph Peacock.

Growing Up

 

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The Story of How We Become Alive, Are Born and Grow Up

 

by
Karl de Schweinitz

 

1928

 

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New York: The Macmillan Company
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Copyright, 1928,
By The Macmillan Company.

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Published January, 1928.
Reprinted March, 1928.
Reprinted April, 1928.
Reprinted June, 1928.
Reprinted October, 1928.
Reprinted December, 1928.

 

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Preface

In the preparation of this little book I have consulted many persons. I am particularly indebted for the reading of the manuscript and for much helpful advice to Mrs. de Schweinitz, to Dr. Louise de Schweinitz, to Mr. and Mrs. C. Reed Cary, Miss Grace Marcus, Mr. Samuel Scoville, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel G. Stem; to Dr. Jessie Taft, director of the Department of Child Study of the Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania; to Mr. Henry W. Fowler, Associate Curator of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and Mr. William E. Meehan, Superintendent of the Philadelphia Aquarium, who read the sections upon fish; Dr. Frederick H. Allen, Miss Goldie Basch, Dr. Phyllis Blanchard, Miss Almena Dawley, Miss Bertha Reynolds, of the staff of the All-Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic; Dr. Dan C. Darrow, Instructor in Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Washington University; Miss Elizabeth H. Dexter, Chief Social Worker, Department of Child Guidance, Newark Board of Education; Dr. E. Van Norman Emery, Director of the Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic; Dr. M. J. Exner, Director of Educational Measures, the American Social Hygiene Association; Mrs. Roger S. Forbes, President, and Mr. Ralph P. Bridgman, Director, of the Parents' Council of Philadelphia; Dr. Benjamin C. Gruenberg, Managing Director of the American Association for Medical Progress; Miss Betsey Libbey, Miss Frederica Schwartz, and others of my associates in the Family Society of Philadelphia; Mr. Walter H. Magill, Assistant Professor in the School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Clarence E. McClung, Professor of Zoology and Director of the Zoological Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Frankwood E. Williams, Medical Director of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene; Mr. Alfred F. Whitman, Executive Secretary of the Children's Aid Association of Boston; Dr. Marion E. Kenworthy, Consultant in Psychiatry at the Institute of Child Guidance, New York.

I have also found especially helpful the following books which may prove to be of interest to those who desire to read further in this field—

Wonderbook of Plant Life by J. H. C. Fabre.

Childhood of Animals by P. C. Mitchell.

The Courtship of Animals by W. P. Pycraft.

The Way Life Begins by Bertha C. Cady and Vernon M. Cady.

Parents and Sex Education by Benjamin C. Gruenberg.

Contents

	Preface	7
Chap.		Page
	Growing Up	13
I.	Growing to Be a Baby	17
II.	Where Eggs Grow	23
III.	Pollen and Sperm	37
IV.	From an Egg to a Baby	59
V.	Animals and Babies	73
VI.	Mating	91
VII.	Your Story and My Story	111

Illustrations

 

Out of the everywhere		Frontispiece
		Facing page
The little white spot on this page is ten times larger than the egg from which you started growing		19
Jack-in-the-pulpit		25
Apple trees in bloom		26
Eggs of salmon		27
Just four hours out of the shell		29
Calf in the uterus of its mother		30
Baby in the uterus or nest of its mother		32
Eggs of a red-winged blackbird in their nest		33
Easter lily		39
A butterfly visiting phlox		40
Sperms of the minnow swimming to the egg		43
Mother pig		47
Dog sitting for his picture		51
Human sperms		53
Six months old		55
After you had been growing nearly two months in the body of your mother you were only as big as this baby		61
The baby in the uterus with the cord through which it is fed from the body of its mother		63
Mother feeding her baby		67
A mother dog feeding her litter of puppies		75
The little giraffe		77
Buffalo calf drinking its mother's milk		79
Lion cub		83
Man cub		85
The flowers in the garden		93
The crowing rooster		95
The peacock		99
Bull moose and his mate		101
The sleeping beauty and the prince		105
Bathing girl		107