The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-12

national life. People point back to
g-andnothers and ETeatgrandmothers
and say
LOO KAT THEM!
Compare them with tie women Of to
iayi How straight they were and how
strong, now hardy and how helpful they
were, how heartily they ate and now
heartily they laughed. They didn't
smoke cigarettes and sip cordials and
depend on choral for sleep. They were
different race from the bloodless, drag
ged out, Observation-Disclosures
women Of today. Now that's al true
in general and yet II misses the main
point by failing 10 consider the vast diff
ference in the conditions under which
life is being lived by the man and wor1-
an OF today. Our ancestry sauntered
through life.
Far from the maddins crowds isnoble
strife
Their sober wish.. never learned to
stray:
Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the even tenor of their way.
Today, as men and women, millions
Of us do in earnest whst those children
did in play; We run a race daily against
steam, against electricity and all the
modern appliances for speed. Is it any
wonder men and women take 70 stimu-
iants ana narcotics? II isn't depravity.
L isn't because we are less Of women or
less OF men than our ancestors. It's
because we're keyed up TO the straining
point all the time, and the nerves won't
stand the daily strains and drains with
out protest. They call the effervescent
bravery OF the man in liquor Dutch
courage You might as we'll name the
effervescent strength gained by stimu-
.ants Dutch strength 1t is not
strength al ALL
There is Ton OF solid fact 10 reflect
on, suggested by the statement just
quoted. What are we going 10 do2 This
Is the age of steam, the age Of electric
ity. We must keep up in
THE GREAT RACE.
But how long can We keep up when
We are depending on false strength?
No longer. relatively, than the children
kept up their race with the train. WHAT
we need is more Drawn and less brandy,
more blood and better blood. It's as
impossible 70 get strength from sti;nu-
iSnts as to hatch turtle dove from the
egg of a mud turtle. Strength OF body
depends. on pure and plentiful blood
current, for science has never advanced
a fact beyond the statement OF Moses
that The Blood il The Life" But every
generation Of investigation shows the
statement TO be true in wider, deeper.
and broader sense than wSs dreamed o.
in the past. Bad blood means bad NOR
ais. Foul blood and foul living 20 to-
gether. The taint in the blood has an
echo in ssiacious speech, a shadow in
corrupt conduct Side by side with
physical bresk-iowns we see the moral
break-downs; defaufting cashiers, dis
honest clerks. faf5hless husbands. false
wives. 1t al begins with the blood.
And any hope o. reform must begin
with the blood too. You can't divorce
the mental and moral from the physical
There is no special food that feeds the
inteiIectusl man, no mamma Of the mind.
The mind Is fed or starved as the body
IS led or starved. Thin blood and weak
nerves shake the throne OF reason Star
walton ot the blood ana nerves drives
men and women 20 mental. moral, and
physical destruction. It is easy 20 un-
derstand in the light OF these facts
the reason for the enormous percent
age or cures effected by DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. II begins ct
the beginning with the blood IL cures
practically a wide range OF diseases be-
cause many fo.ns OF disease have their
origin in the blood It is a scientific /
compound based. not upon theory but
upon the practical. common sense pzoof /
ta2t Il you purify, enrich, and vitaiize /,
TIE blood you overcome disease in any
organ- The Golden Medical Discov- |
e.y'' heals disease in just tais way. It