The Portland daily press., 1895-01-19
A WoInan's Nerves.
THE STORY OLA WOMAN TO
WHOM NOISE WAS TORTURE.
Frustrated by the Least Excitement
Physicians Baff1ed by her Case-Had
Given up in Despair when Relief
was Found.

Given up In despair Wnen hel1et
was Found.
(FYon1 The Gate City, KeoEcatk, IodCo.)
Mrs. Helen Meyers whose home is at 3515
Vernon Avenue, Chicago. and whose visit
to Keokuk will long be remembered, was at
one time afflicted with a nervous malady
which at times drove Ler nearly to distrace
ton. Those terrible headaches are thing
of the past" said she the other day to a
Gate City representative. in the presence Of
a number of friends. "And,'' continued
Mrs. Meyers. there is quite story in
connection with it too, indeed consider it
one of the most miraculous cures of mod
EN- times.
MY nervous system sustained grea
shock some fifteen y saIs ago, brought on
believe through too much worrying over
family matters and then allowing
my love for books to get
the better of my discretion where my
health was concerned. Why, whenever my
affairs at home did not go along just as l
expected, would invariably become pros
trated from the excitement and l would
consider myself fortunate indeed if the
effects of the attack would not remain for
week. l was obliged TO give up our
drive, because could not stand the noise
in that locality. could find no place in
tie city which l deemed suitable to one
whose nervous system was always on the
point of explosion. To add to my mlsror-
tunes my complexion under went change
and looked SO yellow and sallow that |
was ashamed to venture from the house at
all.
Madam said my doctor to me soon
after an unusually severe attack of The
malady, unless you leave the city and
seek some, place of quiet, you will never
recover - so l concluded would visit m y
uncle. who lives in Dallas County, Iowa,
and whose farm would surely be goou
place for one in my pitiable condition:
Now, for the strangest and most ln1racC-
lous part of the story continued Mrs.
Meyers who had aroused the curiosity of her
listeners, my uncle used to live here in
Keokuk, you know and when he moved to
his Dallas County farm. he of course or
dered the Gate City sent to his address.
pic ked up the paper one day and hap,
pened to come across an interesting recital
OF the recovery of some woman IN New
York State who was afflicted as had been.
This woman had been cured by DR.. Will
lianis' Pink Pills for Pale People. though hit
might do the same for me. began to take
the pills according TO directions and l be-
gar, to feel better from the start. My uncle
told me two weeks after l commenced TAX
ing Pink Pills that he guessed he would not
be afraid to discharge his old army musket
now without warning me beforeha nd. tor
he didn't think it would affect me at all.
took several boxes of the Pink Pills and
then was ready to go back to Chicago. My
| nervousness was gone and my complexion
was as fresh as that of any sixteen year-old
girl in Iowa and Pink iills is what put the
| color in my cheeks. No wonder I am in
| such high spirits and feel like prize fight
| er. And no wonder l like to come to
keokuk for if it had not been for Pink Pills
bought from a Keokuk firm / would not
| have been alive now," laughingly concluded
| the lady.
Or. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
| which that term is usually understood, but
| are a scientific preparation successfully
| used in general practice for many years
| before being offered to the public general
| ly. They contain in condensed form all
| the elements necessary to give new life and
| richness to the blood. and restore shatter ed
| nerves. They are an unfailing specific for
| such diseases as looOmotor atax1a, partial
| paralysis, st. Wits dance, sciatica, neural
| gia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the
| after effects of the grippe, palpitation of
the heart, pale and sailow oomplexions,
| p1ostration all diseases resulting from
Initiated humors in the BLOOD such as
scrofula, chronic erysipelas. etc. They are
also a specific for troubles peculiar to fe-
males. such suppressions, irregularities.
| and all forms of weakness. They build up
| the blood and restore the glow of health to
| pale or sallow cheeks. In men they effect a
radical cure in all casey arising from menta
worry, oyerwork. or excuses of whatever
nature.
| Williams Medicine Company. Schenectady,
n. Y, and are sold only in boxes bearing
| the firms trade mark and wrapper, at so
cents a box, or six boxes for SOU.