Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-08-22

What can be more distressing than to see
. girl dropping and fading In the spring time
Of youth Instead of bright eyes, glowing,
rosy cheeks, and an elastic step, there are dull
eyes, pale, sallow, or greenish complexion, and
q lapguidness Of step that bespeak disease and
an early death II proper treatment Is not
promptly resorted to and persisted in until the
impoverished blood is enriched, and the func-
lions of life become regular. Upon parents
rests q great responsibility at the time their
daughters are budding into womanhood. II
your daughter is pale, complains of weakness,
Is tired out upon the slightest exertion, If
she is troubled with headache, backache, or
pain in the side, if her temper is fitful
and her. appetite poor, she is in q con-
dition of extreme peril, a fit subject for the
development of that most dreaded Of all dis.
eases-Consumption. If you notice any of
these symptoms lose no time in procuring
something that will assist the patient to de-
yelop properly and regularly; that will enrich
the blood, and restore health's roses to the
cheeks bright eyes and a lightness of step SO
that danger of consumption and premature
death will be averted. Wise and prudent
mothers will insist on this upon the approach
Of the period of puberty, and thus avoid all
chances of disease or early decay.
AT Three Oaks, Michigan; there lives q
woman with q most remarkable history.
The following story is given in her own
words.
DE-. WILLIAMS MEDICINE Co.,
Schenectady, N. Y.
Gentlcmen:-" There is so much to say about
my case I hardly know which would be
thought the most important. Seven years ago
I had an attack of malarial fever, which turned
to the typhoid. After that never felt as well
my nervous system was completely unstrung.
Five years ago last March / felt the first symp-
toms Of rheumatism. The next March | had
la grippe, which left me with what the doctor
pronounced muscular rheumatism. l became
better, but in November had another severe
attack. 1t settled in my back and right hip,
and was then called ~sciatica. | was blistcred
of that winter in bed. The next spring | was
able to be out a little, but in August had an
other attack and was blistered again. This
time they kept the blisters sore for over two
weeks, but l received no benefit.
AFTER this l had sixteen boils, or some
thing similar, on the right side. l COM
menced to get crooked and had to use a cane
when walked. l again got a little better,
but in February became worse, and my back
gave out completely so that / could not
straighten. The doctor said it was the break
ing down of the bone structure of the vertebra,
1 was nearly double. When | became able to
walk / was SO bent over that | had to walk by
pushing a chair, as ! could not straighten. |
could not sit and lean back in q rocker. There
was a large bunch about halfway down on my
back which, ut times, panied me terribly.
"That fall | took two boxes of Pink
Pills, but because they did not help me at
once 1 stopped taking them. The next win
ter l was in bed, completely helpless. I
finally got so | could not sit up long enough
to rave my bed made. | had chills every
night and my hands and feet were like ice
ali the time. At last / lost all control of my
nerves and if commenced to laugh or cry
could not stop.
81 was also subject to severe pains in my
head and back which made me nearly wild
and would have spells when it seemed as i
/ were falling and would become unconscious
The nights were the worst, as I could not sleep
I was in so much pain that they gave me anti
pain powders, and | had to take four or five a
night as | would awake nearly every hour il
terrible pain.