The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-04-23
THE PRESIDENTS SISTER.
Miss Cleveland on the Rostrum-Some Thoughts
Suggested By her Leefure.

In june 1883, Miss Elizabeth Cleveland.
present mistress of the White House, delivered
an address before the Elmira NJ Y Female
College. which the Presbyterian EranGelist pro-
nouneed great deserved compliment To
an excellent woman. 1t was entitled "Altru-
istic Faith" and for her illustration she took
Chedidja, first wife of Mohammed, who was
rich, and much older than he was when she
married him. When asked in later years why
he did not put her away and take q younger
wife. be replied that he loved her best because
she believed in him when all men despised him.
Chedldja's faith made Mohammed.
There is faith in God. faith in SELF and in
humanity. The first produces the others.
Faith in humanity believes that life is worth
living and worth saving. You will have much
hunger and thirst, will crave affection when
the bloom of youth is supplanted by the ashen
hue of age; will cry aloud for help in infirmi-
ties, must needs come, because those on whom
women rely, though themselves powerless to
relieve them of their intOlerable aches, pains,
prostrations. sleepless nights OF agony. and days
of dlstreSs-becauSe of the parrOwness of their
code and the SefishneSS of their purpose,-re-
strain them from resorting to those agencies
which may lit women to plane of greater
usefulness, and to d no5ler life.
Many woman lacks the faith of Chedidja.
1t they had faith i'll their own reserve of ply
steal power, confidence in the personal expert
ence of Others would follow and instead of
race of suffering mOrtals,-saves TO the preju-
diceS OF those whose only interest in them is
bounded by their professional fees,-we should
see nobility of station re-enforced by nobility
OF mind, and robustness of life
The power to rid themselves Of the aches
pains and desperate despair which affliet. them,
. IS in women. and ought TO come out. You all
have countless amount of testimony" Some
one will say to you, go ON, and you viii con-
quer."
"HOw?" Do as your sisters have done!
Have faith in their indsputable experiences.
We want more life and fuller, and need all tho
help we can get. Man would fail were it not
gestion to keep a woman sweet and lovabIe.
There Is more IN thorough action of the great
blood purifying Organs-the liver and kidneys,
for, ii they are deranged, women cannot have
the physical comfort SD craved and prayed for
To secure this the help they need. the help
that thousands have already used and to which
they say they owe all they possess,-i5 Warmers
safe cure. Mrs. Maria G.. Treadwell, Stamford
Conn, president of the State Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union.) a well known leader
says lit Is the only thing which seemed to
reach my case" The uDprejudiced thousands
have blessed the world because they have be-
come Chedidjas. who have felt it their duty to
declare their own faith and to inspire their
sisters with confidence in the extraordinary up
building energy OF this wonderful discovery.
Miss Cleveland has evidently an original and
fertile mind, and we are indebted to her inter-
esting lecture. a few thoughts from which we
have copied, for a text out of which the above
suggestions have grown.