The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-11-12
A WARMING TO MOTHERS.
From the Press, Three Oaks, Mich,

What can be more distressing than to see
q girl dropping and fading III 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
a languidness of step that bespeak disease and
an early death if proper treatment is not
promptly resorted to and persisted in until the
impoverished blood is enriched, and the func-
tons of life become regular. Upon parents
rests a great responsibility at the time their
daughters are budding into womanhood. If
your daughter is pale, complains of Weakness
she is troubled with headache, backache. or
pain in the side, il her temper is ftful
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
something that will assist the patient to de-
velop 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 a
woman with q most remarkable history.
The following story is given in her own
words.
Dh- NlLLlAMS MEDlJlNE w.,
Schenectady. n. Y.
GenHemen:-" There is SO much to say about
my case | hardly know which would be
|. thought the most important. Seven years ago
l had an attack of malarial fever, which turned
to the typhoid. After that ! never felt us we'll
Five years ago last March | felt the first symp-
toms of rheumatism. The next March | had
Ia grippe, which left me with what the doctor
pronounced muscular rheumatism. became
better, but in November had another severe
attack. 1t settled in my back and right hip,
several times without any relief. | spent all
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.
later this l had sixteen boils, or some
thing similar, on the right side. | com
menced to get crooked and had to use a cane
when / walked. I 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
/ was nearly double. When | became able to
walk | was so bent over that | had to walk by
pushing IA chair, as | could not %straighten. |
could not sit and lean back in IL rocker. There
was q large bunch about halfway down on my
back which, at times. panied me terribly.
THAT fall | took two boxes of Pink
Pills. but because they did nor help me nj
once l stopped taking th'n. I'll" next win,
ter | was in bed, coan2lctrly helpless. |
finally got so | could not sit mp long enough
to have my bed made. I md chills every
night and my hands and feet vera l.ik,. ic,
all the time. Al last | loSi all control of M
nerves and if | commenced to laurn or cry
could no: stop.
II was also subject to sc"ere pains in my
head and back which made me- nearly wild
and would have spells when il seemed as i
I were falling and would become unconscious
The nights were the worst. as | could not sleep
| was in 50 much pain that they gave me anti
pain powders, and ] had to take four or five Il
night as | would awake nearly every hour il
terrible pain.