The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-07

the mantel piece over the fireplace. Anc
there il licked and licked and licked tn,
days away.
During the days when she would 81
and sew or knit in the 'best room" sh,
would look up and see the little clock
with its old. mildewed water-wheel. ant
| think OF him. Its Observation-Disclosures
came the music of love and home anC
happiness to her. The sight of the old
moss-grown water-wheel brought up tc
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 Ii
licked off the minutes of happiness. II
licked off the minutes of love. 1t called
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES there were lit
| tie disagreements and quarreis.
| Tick-tick-tick,
There was 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 mans foot
steps in the "best room" And the little
| clock on the mantel piece heard and list
ened and licked on. There was 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.
"All's well"' And the little clock on the
mantel piece licked on in echo to the
pulse of d new life.
Tick-tick-tick!
Then followed happy days in the little
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
room and listen TO the tick OF the little
clock on the mantel piece and look al
tho old, mildewed water-Wheel and buiId
castles in the air for baby. The tick
tick-tick, Of the little clock resounded
IN an empty room. And again there was
Eurrying Of 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 10 glisren on
the spray that fell from the m,idewed
water-wheei
Tick-ticR-tick!
The chair in the corner OF the "best
room" was empty and he walked back
and forth-beck and forth-and listened
alone TO the mcurnful tick-tick-tick,
o. the little clock on the mantel niece
And the days all seemed 10 be rainy
Gays, and no creak OF a rocking chair
responded 10 the tick on the mantel and
the messy green on the old water-wheel
grew fainter and fainter and faded into
a dull blur Of black
Today on thousands OF mantel pieces
little clocks are ticking away the few
remaining minutes 81 the lives Of low
ing wives and prattling babes-lives that
might have lived on 10 make happy
homes but for little neglect or a little
ignorance.
VIII 1t always be thus? VIII women
neve- learn the supreme Importance Of |
their vomaniy health? VIII they never. !
learn that they cannot be happy. healthy /
and capable wives and the conpetent !
mothers OF robust children while they |
suffer from weakness and disease OF the !
delicate organs that make wifehood and |
motherhood possible. and upon which the
perpsida'.on OF the race depends.
There are thousands OF best roonns''
where the clock on the mantel piece
ticks the mournfGl cadence Of death.
TIA: might be radiant with the smile OF a
owing wife and mother bu. sor this iE-
1oranc- or neglect IL women VIII only
earn. and teach their daughters. the
supreme importance OF keeping the dis
-inct,y feminine organism in a perfectly
-igOrous and healthy condition, this ever
occurring tragedy viii soon De story Of
ne past II women who suffer from
\ eakness and disease OF these delicate
'rssns viii write u Dr.. r V. Piercs. AZ
Buffalo. " Y. they viii le,rn that il
'rder % recover ard maintain their
.ealth in this respect. Z : not generally
iecsssary 20 submit % the humiiiatiag
examination" and local applications"
INSISTED upon by physicians IN writ
1g coafi5sntially 20 DR.. Pierce. q woman
laces her case. without charge. in the I
ands ~ a s<iIlful specialist, FOR thirty
ssrs chief consulting physician 70 the
q aids Hotel and Surgical Taz.l.ute, al
buffalo. y. Y.-one % the leading msii-
al Institutions in me xorld. wi;h a s;a6 ]
nearly a score o. eminent pTacuIion- I
rs Or. Plercs-s Fay0-z,e Prsscripti3a :
a marvellous remedy ror a.hn- Es1asn-
acts directly on the delicate orsznsihsr 1
ear the burdens 0. maternity. /; makes c