Morning journal and courier., 1885-04-20
THE PRESIDENTS SISTER.

Miss cleveland on the Rostrum-Some
 Thoughts Suggested by Her Lec-
 ture.
 In June, 1883, Miss Elizabeth Cleveland,
 present mistress of the White House, deliv-
 cred an address before the Elmira, N. Y., Female college, which the Presbyterian
 Evangelist pronounced "great, ,"-a deserved
 compliment to an excellent woman. It was
 entitled tsAltruistic Faith," and for her il-
 lustration 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 a younger wife, he replied
 that he loved her best because she believed
 in him when all men despised him. Chedid-
 jas 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 in6rmities, must needs come, because those on whom women rely; though them selves powerless to relieve them of their in tolerable aches, pains, prostrations, sleepless nights of agony and days of distress-be- cause of the narrowness of their code and the selfshness of their pt1rpose-restrain them from resorting to those agencies which may lift women to a plane of greater useful ness and to nobler life.
 Many 8 woman lacks the faith of Chedid- ia. If they had faith in their own reserve of ! physical power, confidence in the personal experience of others would follow; and in | stead of race of suffering mortals-slaves I to the prejudices of those whose only inter n I : ! e. --u1 | fees-we should see nobility of station rein | forced by nobility of mind and robustness oi ! life
 The power to rid themselves of the aches pains and desperate despair which affiict \ them Ifs in women and ought to come out | You all have Q countless amount of testimo | n.y." Some one will say to you, 'Go on anc | you will conquer"
 ! "How?" Do your sisters have done Have faith in their indisputable experiences | We want more life and fuller, and need al ! the help we can get. Man would fail were il not for the Chedidjas. There is much il | good digestion to keep a woman sweet anG | lovable. There is more in thorough actio1 | of the great blood purifying organs-the liv CT and kidneys, for if they are deranged wo I men cannot have the physical comfort SC | craved and prayed for. To secure this, tho ! help they need-the help that thousands \ have already used and to which they say they ! owe all they possess-is Warmers Safe Cure | Mrs. Maria c. Treadwell, Stamford, Conn. ! (president of the State Woman's Christian I Temperance Union), well known leader 1 says 'Fit is the only thing which seemed te I reach my case.'' These unprejudiced thou 1 sands have blessed the world because they l have become Chedidjas, who have felt il ! their duty to declare their own faith and tc | inspire their sisters with confidence in thu | extraordinary up-building energy of thii | wonderful discovery.
 Miss Cleveland has evidently an origina | and fertile mind, and we are indebted to he1 \ interesting lecture, a few thoughts from which we have copied, for text out ot l which the above suggestions have grown.