Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1895-11-15

w IL A-NT iISlBhEs
there is throbbing life beneath tht
dainty glove, and after again hearing
her own name spoken in the ever ia
mlllar voice, that this strange sensa.
ton vanishes
THE STRANGE MEETING.
The meeting of the two women
whose pictures are here given, shows
that everyday life furnishes expert
enees as thrilling as those that come
to us only in our widest dreams. And
the fact that such meetings occur
every day points a moral that every
woman in the land should take to
heart. Here was a woman in the
prime of life, pursued by that sentinel
which seeks its victim among her sex
alone
From a living picture she bec{ /,
less than year. a wreck If 4
wretchedness. From despond, to
despair seemed but the remainit, s&p,
the last step.
HER LAST FAREWELL.
Overcome by the presentiment that
precedes lingering death, she asked
to be removed to her old home in the
west,~and spoke what TO ali seemed to
be her last farewell In the very paper
that chronicled her departure the
doomed invalid found letters written
by Mrs. Belle Dement,, OF Iroquois, H.,
Mrs. Minnie Smith, of Lowell. Oregon,
and others. Some OF these letters are
printed below. They told how cures
had been found for cases like her own
shat cred health that had almost
Slapped life away With no more hope
than that which prompts the drowning
man TO catch at Il straw-for she firmly
believed herself incura bic, Just as tens
of thousands Of women believe them
selves incura ble-she followed the
advice contained in these letters. The
result is best told in the woman's own
words In less than five months"
she writes, II returned to my friends
in the east, as well and strong in BODY
and mind and as happy and free from
pain as any woman in the world. /
had gained nearly thirty pounds In
weight and was SO changed in face and
form that when one of my dearest
friends met me in broad daylight She
almost tainted, for
SHE BELIEVED NE DEAD"
She adds: II owe my whole life and
happiness to Doctor Pierce's Favorite
Prescription, which cured me after |
doctors, travel, baths. massage. cleo
tricity, had failed to even BENEF1r.''
This woman's case: rernarka bic as it !
may seem, is not an exceptional one.
Thousands and thousands of just such
cures have been made in every state by
this same special remedy for women's
peculiar disorders and diseases. This
world-famed remedy is not recon-
mended as '.cure-sll. but as most
perfect specific for women's peculiar
ailments. As
A POWERFUL, ISvIGoRATING TONIC,
itimparts strength to the whole system
and to the organs distinctly feminine
in particular. For overworked. worn
out. rundown, debilitated teachers.
Inilliners, dressmakers. seamstresses.
shop girls" housekeepers, nursing
mothers and feeble women generally.
DR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is
the greatest earthly boon, being I'M
equaied as an appetizing cordial and
lnvigorating tonic. Asa
SOOTHING NERyISE,
sFavorite Prescription is unequaled
in subduing nervous excitabilitv, irri-
ia bility, nervous exhaustion, nervous
prostration. neuralgia, hysteria, spasms.
chorea, or ST. Vitus's dance, and other
nervous symptoms, com
monty attendant upon functional and {
organic disease of the generative or
gans Of women 1t induces refreshing
sleep and relieves mental anxiety and
dependency.
In complicated cases. or when the
kidneys or liver are effected, or the
blood impure, DR.. Pierce's Golden Med !
cal Discovery should be taken con-
ointly with the use of the "Favorite {
Prescriptions according to directions,
around each bottle
GREAT BOOK FEE ..
When DR.. Pierce published the first .
dition of his work, The Peoples Com