The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-14

happiness to her. The sight of the old,
moss-g grown Water-Wheel brought up to
her pleasant pictures Of her old home,
and happy hopes in her new.
Tick-tick-tick!
Thus the little clock kept track Of the
flying minutes in the little home. 1t
licked off the minutes of happiness. 1t
licked off the minutes Of love. It called
Cp-stOp-stop!-wh there were lit
tie disagreements and quarrels.
ck-tick-tick!
There was a hurrying Of Women's feet
and the little clock on the mantel piece
listened and heard. There was a nerV-
Gus treading to and fro OF a mans foot
steps in the best room" And the
little clock on the mantel piece heard
and listened and licked on. There was
a ring at the door-bell and the sound OF
footsteps coming up the stairs softly.
And then there was the smiling face Of
the old family doctor as he peeped into
the best room and nodded his head
and said, ''Alls wellr' And the little
clock on the mantel piece licked on in
echo to the pulse Of a new life.
Tick-tick-tick!
Then followed happy days in the lit
tie home. There were new eyes, wide
open and curious, that stared at the
little clock on the mantel piece, and
chubby fingers that grabbed at the
moss grown wheel on its face. There
was childish laughter, and in a little
while the patter of baby feet.
And then, one day, "she" didn't sit in
the accustomed corner in the best
rCcm'' and listen to the tick of the lit
tie clock on the mantel piece and look
at the old, widowed water-wheel and
build castles in the air for baby The
IL
sounded in an empty room. And again
there was hurrying CT women's feet and
rings at the dOor-bell And then the
curtains in the best room were pulled
down and shut out the light that used
to glisten on the spray that fell from
the mldeWed water-wheel.
Tick-tick-ticlki
The chair in the corner Of the best
room was empty, and he walked back
and forth-back and forth-and lis
tened alone to the mournful tick-tick
tick of the little clock on the man
tel piece. And the days all seemed to
be rainy days, and no creak of a rock
ing chair responded to the tick on the
mantel and the messy green on the
old waterwheel grew fainter and
fainter and faded into dull blur of
black.
Today on thousands Of mantel pieces
little clocks are ticking away the few
remaining minutes in the lives of low
ing wives and prattling babes--lives
that might have lived on to make hap
py homes-but for little neglect or a
little ignorance
Will it always be thus? Will wome.
never learn the supreme Importance of
their womanly health? Will they never
learn that they cannot be happy
healthy and capable wives and the
competent mothers Of robust children
while they suffer from weakness and
disease of the delicate organs that
make wifehood and motherhood pos
Sible, and upon which the perpetuation
Of the race depends.
There are thousands OF best rooms
where the clock on the martel piece
ticks the mOurnful cadence of death,
that might be radiant with the smile
of a loving wife and mother but for
this ignorance or neglect. If women
will only learn, and teach their daugh-
ters, the supreme Importance of keep
ing the distinctly feminine organism
in a perfectly vigorous and healthy
condition, this ever-recurring tragedy
will soon be a story Of the past. If
women who suffer from weakness and
disease of these delicate organs will
write to Dr. +. V. Pierce at Buffalo. N.
Y. they will learn that in order to
recover and maintain their health in
this respect, it is not generally neces-
Sary to submit to the humiliating Eek
anMnations" and local applications"
insisted upon by physicians. In writ
ing confidentially to DR.. Pierce, a wom-
an places her case, without charge. in
the hands Of a skillful specialist for
thirty years chief consulting physician
to the Invalids Hotel and Surgical In
stitute at Buffalo, N. Y.-one of the
leading medicah institutions in the
world, with a Staff Of nearly a score
of eminent practitioners. Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription is a marvellous
remedy for ailing women. 1t acts
directly on the delicate organs that
bear the burdens of maternity. II
makes them strong and healthy. 1t
cures all weakness and disease and
gives vigor, virility and elasticity. 1t
prepares for healthy wifehood and
safe, capable motherhood. Taken dur
Ing the squeamish period of anticipa-
ton, it banishes the usual discomforts
and makes baby's coming easy and
almost painless. 1t insures q robust
and healthy child. It tones a woman's
nerves and enables and assists nature
to build up her general health. All