The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-01-24
THE VERY LATEST
May Rule the Greatest
Country on Earth.
WHAT WE OWE THE STRANGER
AND WHAT HE OWES Us.

month ago IL was an important event,
but he wasn't an American. lie could
never become president That is why
the coming of the stranger today means
so much. Bearer blood courses In his
veins. He is one of us. He is already
enrolled upon the family register. He
may become the ruler of the most power
full nation on the globe. He should be
hailed with JOY. How viii he be well
comed7 What preparations have been
made for his comfort and welfare? And
what, by the way, Is his inheritance?
To every woman his coming means a
quicker heart beat II has cost some
thing to have him come. Every mother
knows that What do we owe to him
and what does he owe to u.s. Every
mother knows what she owes to the latest
arrival. She owes him first Of all. life
robust natural, Joyous life-ihc only Kind
of life worth living. lSut she also knows
| that she must have that sort of life her
self, that she can't give 1t unless she has
| 1t. She owes him IL fair chance. n grip
| on health and consequent happiness which
| will give him a grip on fortune. This is a
rich Inheritance, but 1t is every mothers
| duty to give him all these. How? BY
| getting them herself before he comes. If
| she is sick, nervous, miserable, and de-
| spondent, she Is making "A heavy cross for
his young shoulders. She owes him a
sounl mind. strong constitution and a
cheerful disposition. And these she can
not give unless
HIS COMING
is hailed with joy instead OF feared with
sorrow.
Every woman should know that science
has furnished improved means of sate.y
bearing and rearing children And that it
has made 1t easy and almost painless for
their mothers when they come. If the new
arrival is awaited with sorrow, misgivings
and fear. there is something wing. He
will have as an Inheritance the wrong
sort of n start In life. To make light OF
the event is inhuman and unnatural. The
society woman who regards babies as
"unfa shionable" Is past reform. She is
menace to progress and civilization. To
fear or shrink from 1t Is a crime not by
the laws OF society, but by the laws OF
heredity, for the mothers condition reacts
upon the offspring.
Birth IS the beginning of all things. 1t
is the first law of nature. If natural II
should be easy, and 1t Is always easy and
almost painless when the right prepara-
ton is made. One OF the most successful
woman's physician in America, DR.. r. V.
Pierce chief consulting physician to the
lnvalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute Of
Buffalo, N. Y, who has received over
10000 voluntary, written testimonials from
women in all parts OF America, knew this
when he set out to discover his "Favorite
I
tIou" Of his is the greatest medical dis
covery of n century. because 1t is double
blessing While il arms the mother with
peace, strength and comfort, 1t also arms
her child with the surest promise Of hap
piness and successful manhood or woman
hood--perfect health. And this Is the debt
we owe to the newcomer.
THE REASON WHY.
If we all lived Just as nature Intended
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pain. worry OF misfortune connected with
woman's most natural and important
function But living as We do, disro gard
ing continually IN dress, diet and duties
the laws of health, nature and common
sense. II has developed upon science to
supply remedy. The first physician in
America to make a life specially of treat
ing Voman's peculiar ailments and the
only physician to discover a remedy Tor
nearly all the pain and suffering as wei
as the danger to both mother and child
attending delivery, was Dr. Fierce. He
and his staff of skilled specialists have
| successfully treated hundreds OF thous-
anls of women, and have discovered RENE
dies that are founded upon the laws of
common sense and act in accordance with
tho laws of nature These are happily
combined In DIR. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription.
PROSPECTIVE MOTHERS
should know that Nature never intended
that woman should be tortured IN the
performance of her most important and
most natural function II the coming
of baby be contemplated with miseiV-
givings, worry and fear, instead of Joy and
satisfaction, no mother can give to her
| child the greatest of all inheritanCes--
| robust health and happy disposition.
Even the Romans knew that the mothers
condition reacts upon her offspring
|
| fore, commence early during the period of
CESSATION to fortify and prepare her sys-
| TEN for the trying ordeal of delivery by
| the regular use of DR. Pierce's Favorite
| Prescription, which exercises "A salutary
| influence over that condition and the iunc-
ton of pariuritior which can not he real
| lied from any other medicine eXtant.
| Thereby danger to both mother and child
is banished nearly all the rain and suf-
| ferlng are avoided recovery after con-
| finement is much more speedy, and an
abundant secretion Of nourishment for the
! child is promoted. The woodworking
| "Favorite Prescription" imparts health
/ and strength to the whole system and es-
pecially to the organs distinctly feminine
| Not only for prospective mothers, but for
nursing ones as well and for feeble wo-
men generally. DR.. Plerce's Favorite Pre-
! scription is the greatest earthly boon.
WOMAN's THREE STAGES.
The "Favorte Prescription" Is of in
/ estiu able value at three stages in the
| lives Of every woman-when the girl he
! comes n woman. when the woman be
comes mother. and when the mother
! becomes incapable of maternity. AT these
! times II gives safety and strength II is
/ the only medicine now before the pub
lie for woman's peculiar ailments, ADAPTED
| to her delicate organization by a regularly
| graduated physician--an experienced and
| skilled specialist In CHEESE maladies 1t
can not do harm In any condition Of the
| system. Its sales exceed the combined
sales OF all other medicines for women.
/ DR.. Picrce's Favorte Prescription viii
cure any derangement of the distinctly
| feminine organism. 1t is absolutely GER
tain. There are some who have neglected
themselves so long that complete cure
is next to impossible, but even these will
find comfort and improved health in the
use of the "Favorte Prescription II
has cured hundreds of women who have
received no relief whatever from years
of treatment with good physicians. II
| is absolutely unique In the history OF
medicine. Such a remedy can be discov-
| cred only once. There is nothing i'm the