The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-01-15
TWO PLUCKY WOMEN.
| WHO TOOK MATTERS INTO THEIR OWN
HANDS AND CAME OUT AHEAD.

Cooley's (Norwich Conn., Weekly.
eff there were any gentlemen in this
car, exclaimed q natty little woman with
black eyes and of lady-Eke appearance,
in street car the other day, ''they would
not allow this brute of drunkard to an
noy me. I'd like to be his wife for half
an hour, I'd dress him down y
Cowed by her justifiable anger, the
gsnteel, we'll dressed debauchee went out
upon the platform. The little lady
quickly sprang to the door, braced her
self against il, and cried out, Now come
in if you can /" And he did not come In!
The habit of independence should be
cultivated whenever possible, and eIsr-
cised whenever necessary for the main
tenance of personal rights. 1t requires
. deal of pluck for woman to do this,
but it pays every time. We were forcibly
impressed with this fact by conversation
had last week with Mrs. 5. A. Clark of
East CRANKY, Conn.
Many woman, pursued by revenge
full foe, will appreciate what she says.
For over ten years on every possible
occasion, and chiefly when she was least
on her guard, mysterious enemy made
covert assaults upon her
An open foe she says she could meet !;
but an ambushed enemy was horribly ex-
asperating. She called to her aid the
wisest and most discreet friends she had.
She expended all the money she could
spare to detect and disarm him. But she
could not succeed and was worried to
distraction.
A daughter residing in Iowa, was sent
for to comfort her in her anxiety. When
she learned what her mother had suffered
with true Western pluck, she told her
that she must take courage, do as she
told her, and she would triumph over her
foe. For ten long years she had been
annoyed, and at last back ache, headfc che
irritability, spinal weakness. hot head,
cold hands and feet told her that the eff
feet was getting fatal. Her health and
spirits finally broke down under the
strain, and in 1875 she suffered unutter-
able fortunes for several months from in
famation of the bladder In 1873, renal
hemorrhage and gravel, with frequent
attacks of chills and fever, overcame her.
Her sufferings she says surpassed de-
scription. Finally her stomach refused
all solid food, and for g month she lived
on tescupful of milk three times day.
Nervous prostration ensusd. Sleep was
impossible. Walking was out Of the
question, and in despair of relief, she
took to her bed expecting to die. She
tried every reputable school of physicians
who agreed that she had a combination
Of desperate diseases common to women
in the middle life. While treating one
the others grew worse.
Six weeks from the time she took her
daughters advice and dismissed her ex-
pensivs and useless professional attend
ants, she resumed her place at the table
ana from that day to this has been in
sound and satisfactory health. which she
attributes entirely to the use of Warmers
safe cure. All her ailments were caused
by inaction of the kidneys and poisoned
state Of the blood produced by that in
action. This was her secret enemy.
eff 1 were rich," she exclaimed to the
reporter, ~ would give that preparation
to every suffering woman, for am GER
tain from my own bitter experience, that
renal disorders and poisoned blood are
the source of the many constitutional
complaints to which women are subject"
Mrs. Clark is very estinable lady,
who is to be congratulated on having so
sffectually routed an enemy which for SO
many years implacably and pitilessly pur-
sued her. Il other ladies would take the
same course they would not be subject
to these secret foes.