American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-30
Invalid Wives.

American women which has marked
the last decade and which threatens to
sap the very foundations of our future
well-being as people, is at last attract
ing the attention it deserves. Philan-
thropists, medical practitioners, scien-
lists, clergymen, and thinking, reflect
ing men in every department of life are
coming to be fully aware of the most
startling fact that our wives and daugh-
tiers bear no comparison in physical
health to our mothers. And the con-
viction, forced upon us by the facts
which are every day presenting them
selves and demanding recognition, that
this wasting of vigor and consequent
suffering is increasing by regular stages,
unveils to our startled view the impend-
ing doom which hangs like a pail over
our homes, threatening our dearest in
terests, and which, if not speedily avert
ed, will eliminate in untold misery.
1t is fruitless to close our eyes to these
most lamentable truths. The manly
part is to meet them squarely in the
face, and, if possible, by ascertaining
we may be able, Notwithstanding the
valuable time and opportunities already
squandered, and the almost fatal faults
and errors of the past.
1t can not be denied that the foolish
and flippant habits of our fashionable
ladies and their abject slavery to the
reigning ttstyle'' accounts in great
measure for the fact that they are, as
rule, iaUdlids. But for the equally
patent fact that the health and strength
of the great middle classes have SO rap
idly and sadly deteriorated, we must
look for another explanation.
Many of the so-called labor-saving in
ventiens of the past thirty years have
proved in actual use sadly destructive
of health. No invention of the nine
teenth century can boast SO many vic
Tins as the Sewing Machine. The con-
slant, racking noise attending their
operation, the nervous tension required
in keeping them up to the work and
constantly guarding against their freaks
and spasms, the great exertion requir-
ed to operate them, the fatiguing mo-
ton across the loins and pelvic organs,
caused by the motion of both feet at the
same time upon the treadle, all COM
bined, require more strength and endur-
ance than the average lady, especially
the mother of children, possesses.
OF all machines yet invented, one
only-the New Automatic''-can be
said to be at all adapted to use in the
family.
Free from the defects which distin-
guish all others-simple, noiseless,
always ready and never out of order,
with no tension, shuttle or bobbin, hav-
ing but one-fourth the number of parts
possessed by the complicated contriv-
ances which have so long been inflicted
on our wives and mothers, it is really a
boon which never can be too highly APP
preciated. The trade mark of the COM
pany is imbedded in each machine to
prevent deception by imitators. For
further information address Wilcox &
Gibbs Sewingl Machine Co., Lindell
Hotel Building, 609 N. Sixth Street, St.
Louis, Mo.
A Remedy that Defes Competition.
Hostctter's Stomach Bitters defy COMPETE
ton. Of the host Of rival tonics that have
cropped up during its long career, not one
has gained and retained such large share Of
public favor, though many have enjoyed an
ephemeral popularity. The reason Is this,
advertised to perform cures of the most
startling nature, they have when tested,
almost invariably turned out to be of little or
no value, while the great invigorant, whose
reputation they were intended to rival, has
never disappointed those who have placed
their confidence in It. It has vindicated in
the amplest manner its claims to be consid-
cred positive specific remedy for liver COM
plant, dyspepsia, malarious fevers, debility,
arising from general weakness and disorders
of the RtOmach liver and howo1a