Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-06-24
A WELL KNOWN FACE.

Authoritative Statement That settles
All Doubt as to Whether There
Ever Was Really a Mrs. Lydia e.
Pfnkham-A Striking Example OF
Pluck and Perseverance,.
Among the almost countless industries
of the United States none have achieved a
wider distinction than that carried on I'M
der the name of Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham,
and whatever relates to this enterprise is
fraught with more or less interest to the
general public.
A few days ago 1t was the good fortune
of Boston Herald representative to be
privileged an interview with Mr.. Charles II.
Pinkham, of the Lydia E. Pinkham Medical
company, who was found at the 'labora-
tory in the city of Lynn.
'I have called" said the reporter, "for
the purpose of inquiring into the truth
fitness Of certain stories which have
gained more or less currency during the
past two or three years relating to the his
tory of the Pinkham enterprise, and if
these rumors are misleading to give you
an opportunity to correct them"
After thanking the reporter for this
manifestation of interest Mr. Pinkham
proceeded to say, eyes, there are queer
ideas always getting into the heads of the
people, and my experience has been that
it takes one-half the world to correct the
errors of the other half. I have heard it
said that no such person as my mother,
Lydia E. Pinkham, ever existed, and that
we simply adapted the name for ADVERT
sing purposes. "But," continued Mr..
Pinkham, "allow me to call your attention
to the three portraits hanging on yonder
wall, and which form a border to the
painting in the center. Those on the out
side are the children of Lydia E. Pink
kan, while the one in the middle repre-.
sents their mother. This display Of the
members of our family always attracts the
attention of the visitor and dispels what.
ever doubt he might previously have had
as to the real existence of a person by the
| name of Lydia E. Pinkham.
GLOW long have you been connected
| with the businesss' further inquired the
| reporter.
"From its very beginning. My father
was broken down in health when my
mother first began to make the compound
| which has now come to be known all over
the world was the eldest of the boys
| and took the management of the business
from its inception, since which time I have
| remained its executive head"
"Your beginning was necessarily small
was it not?'
eyes, very; our first laboratory wa
mothers kitchen. We stepped the herb
in limited quantities, and the filling of
gross or so of bottles was the combined Of
forts of the family during the evening.
HSuccess attended our efforts, and i
was not long before we were heard of II
| the newspapers and periodicals through
out the country. We soon found it neces
sary to remove from tho kitchen to a reg
ularly appointed laboratory, but the ex
pansion of our business was so great tina
larger and still larger building becam
imperative, until at last we found our
selves in our present well appointed
structure, where we have every facility TO
answering the demands which are mad
upon us.
"Oh! we believe in newspaper ADVERT
sing; there is nothing like it."
fortune, trust, has attended your of
fortsg'
! eyes, we have made some money, i
that is what you mean, and I am mos
happy to say that although we have car
ried advertising accounts amounting t.
hundreds Of thousands of dollars, W
have never failed to pay our bills dolla
for dollar. No one can truthtully say b
ever had a just claim against this concern
that was not settled in full"
"Then the fact>pf your not advertiser,
during the last few years is not attribute
BILE to a lack of success in your business
as certain parties would have it appears"
81 am sincerely glad you asked me tina
question" remarked Mr.. Pinkham, "as
gives me an opportunity to record posi-
tive refutation of it. The story is entire
ly incorrect Our business has succeede,
from the beginning. We dropped out O
newspaper advertising for a while as W
had succeeded in building up large bust
ness But we have come to the conclusion
that newspaper advertising and our bust
ness go hand-in-hand, l. e., that it is six o
one and half dozen of the other. There
fore, for the past eighteen months W
have been at it again, harder than ever"
81 understand that your wife takes al
active part in the correspondence wit
women whom you treat by mail?'
eyes, she attends personally to the pri
vate correspondence and personal visits o
female patients. So you see instead O
there being no Mrs. Pinkham in the con
Germ there have been two-my wife an,
mother. Ny wife to-day handles an enor
nous amount of correspondence with wo
men, and her wide personal experienc
with mother, aided by many volumes o
records compiled by my mother, are fac
tors in the perpetuation of our success
1.-THE business end 1 attend to. Th
manufacturing, advertising and all tn
other branches are under well organized
system. 1t is not difficult to handle
large business where all the details ar
perfectly arranged, and made to run il
certain we'll defined grooves"
"We announce to the world, through
our advertisements in the newspapers
every day that we still live, and I have de
monstrated to you that there are Pink
hams in fact, and that we are solely
Pinkham firm. We hope the women O
the world will continue TO think kindly O
US and Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetabl
Compound"
The deductions to be drawn from tn
foregoing interview leads one to realiz
how easily q mammoth may be grow
from small beginning from
| the Boston Herald