Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-24
THE PRESIDENTS SISTER.
Miss Cleveland on the Rostrurn-SOme
Thoushts SUGGESTED by Her Lecture.

In June 1888, Miss Elizabeth Cleveland,
present mistress of the White House, de-
livered an address before the Elmira On. "
Female College, which the Presbyterian,
Erdageiist pronounced great''--a deserved
compliment 10 an excellent woman. 1t
was entitled ''Altruistic Faith and for
her Illustration she took Chedidja, 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 q younger
wife he replied that he loved her best be-
cause she believed in him when all men
despised him. Chedidja's faith made Mo-
manned.
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 sup
planted by the ashen hue of age; will cry
aloud for help in infirmities, must needs
come, because those on whom women rely,
though themselves powerlesS to relieve
them of their intolerable aches, pains, pros
trations, sleep'ess nights of agony and days
of distress-because of the narrowness of
their code and selfishness of their purpose
restrain them from resorting to those agen-
| cies which may lift women to plane of
| greater usefulness. and to a nobler life.
! Many Il woman lacks the faith of Chedid-
! ia. If they had faith i'll their own reserve
| OF physical power, confidence in the per-
sonal experience of others would follow !;
and instead of race of suffering mortals,
slaves to the prejudices of those whose only
interest in them is bounded by their pro
! fessional fees, we should see nobility of
station reinforced by nobility of mind, and
robustness of life.
The power to rid themselves of the aches,
pains and desperate despair which aifiict
| them, AZ is i'll women, and ought to come
out You all have Il countless amount OF
testimony" Some one will say to you,
9 Go on and you will conquer"
How p Do as your sisters have done.
Have faith in their indisputable expert
ences We want more life and fuller, and
need all the help we can get. Man would
fail were it not for the Chedidjas. There
is much in good digestion to keep woman
sweet and lovable There is more III thor
ough action OF the great blood-puriiying
organs the liver and kidneys-for if they
are deranged women cannot have the
physical comfort SO 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 Warmers safe cure. Mrs. Maria
c. Treadwell. Stamford, Conn. president
of the State Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union), n well-known leader, says
" 1t is the only thing which seemed 10
reach my case" These unprecedented thou
sands have blessed the world because they
have become Chedidjas, who have felt it
their duty to declare their own faith and
to inspire their sisters with confidence i'll
the extraordinary up-building energy of
this wonderful discovery.
Miss Cleveland has evidently an original
and fertile mind, and we are indebted to
| her interesting lecture-a few thoughts from
which we have copied-for text out of
which the above suggestions have grown.