National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-04-11
THE PRESIDENTS SISTER.
Miss Cleveland on tho Rostrum-
Some Thoughts sugKested by Her

Miss Cleveland on tho Rostrum-
Some Thoughts sugEested by Her
Lecture.
In June. 1888, Miss Elizabeth Cleve-
land, present mistress Of the white house,
delivered an address before the Elmira
IN. W Female College, which the Pres
byterian Evangelist pronounced great
deserved compliment to an excellent
woman. 1t was entitled "Altruistic
Faith" aud for her illustration sho took
Chedidjs, the 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 n younger vito, he re-
piled that he loved her best because she
believed in him when all men dospised
him. Chedidias 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 whom the bloom of
youth Is supplanted by the ashen hue OF
age; will cry aloud for help in inhrmi-
ties, must moods come, because those on
whom women rely, though themselves
powerless TO relieve them Of their in
tolerable aches, pains, prostrations, sleep
less nights ofagony, and days Of distress
because of tho narrowness OF their code
and the selfshness of their purpose
restrain them from resorting to those
agencies which may lift women to plane
| Of greater usefulness and to uobler life.
Many woman lacks tho faith of Che
didja. If they had faith in their own
reserve of physical power, confidence in
the personal experience Of others would
follow and instead of q race of suffer-
ing mortals-slaves to tho prejudices of
those whose only interest in thom Is
bounded by their professional foes-we
should see nobility Of station re-onforced
by nobility of mind aud Robustness of
life.
The power to rid themselves of the
aches, pains, and desperate despair which
afilict them, is in women, and ought to
come out. You all have q countless
amount Of testimony Some one will
say to you GO on, aud you will conquer"
"How"2 DO as your sisters have done |!
Have faith in their indisputable expert
ences. We want moro life and fuller,and
need all tho help we can get. Man would
fail were it not for tho Chedidjas. There
is much In good digestion to keep wo-
1 man sweet and loveable. There is moro
in thorough action of tho great blood
4 purifying organs--the liver and kidneys,
for If they are deranged women can not
have the physical comfort so craved and
prayed for. To secure this, the help thoy
need-the help that thousands have al
ready used and to which they say they
owe all they possess--is Warmers safe
cure. Mrs. Maria @. Treadwell, SIAM
ford. Conn. president Of the State Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union), a
well-known leader, says lit Is the only
thing which seemed to reach my cast"
These unpreiudiced thousands have
blessed the world because they have be-
come Chedidjas, who have felt 1t theiI
duty to declare their own faith and to in.
spire their sisters with confidence in the
extraordinary up-building energy Of thiI
wonderful discovery.
Miss Cleveland has evidently an origi
nal aud fertile mind, and we are indebted
to her interesting lecture, few thoughts
from which we have copied, for text GU
Of which the above suggestions hav'
grown.