Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-30
CURATIVE CULTURE.
soaeIsls, Sch atiRe and nsaIth. Giving method,
Of Living.


Of Living.
Mrs. Helen Stafford of San Fran
cisco will deliver free private lecture
to ladies', Monday. 2 P. NJ, at G. A. r
haii-subject, Curative Physical Gull
tire" Every lady and girl in town
should consider 1t a privilege to listen
10 this gifted lady, who is considered
the most able and instructive lecturer
on the human body. Mrs. Stafford
comes highly recommended by the
natrons of O. E. g., Rebakahs Of 1. O.
o. F., Relief Corps of G. A. R., and
prominent ladies. gentlemen, fathers
and mothers all over the country
wherever she has been. The lecture be-
gins promptly at 2 o'clock.
The Santa Cruz Surf has the follow
Ing to say concerning Mrs. Stafford:
Mrs. Stafford comes to Santa Cruz
With testimonials and a record of cures
performed and knowledge impaired
that give confidence in her skill and
power, but, more than all, q talk with
the lady, who is herself an exponent of
what she teaches, convinces the seeker
"
that this beautiful and healthful wom-
an has by her researches and expert
ence evolved. mode Of treatment for
the ILL! Of living for the well, which
shall confer upon them and continue
indefinitely that boon of health for
which the miser would sacrifice his
gold, anduwhich is the greatest bless
Ing Of the poor. of the wage-earner and
of the over-worked mother and wife
everywhere.
Left herself, without abundant re-
source and with impaired health and
strength, Mrs. Stafford set herself to
study what was best to be done, best
for her to do. She went to the dissect-
ing-reom. under the teaching Of prac-
ticed physician, and there learned the
sad story of what system Of false liv-
ing does the body. The effects Of the
corset upon women and mothers, of
wrong food and drink, of drugs, of the
knife, of the surgeon. of lack of proper
exercise. and air, revealed themselves
to her in the degradation of the It's
sues, the bone, the muscles and all the
organs Of the unfortunate. ones who
came under the knife in these studies.
So. Mrs. Stafford reasoned, there
our method Of living. Step by step
with her own person as the expert
mental subject, this woman learned
the deep lessons of life, and regained
for herself mental and physical vigor,
strength, health and happiness. That
she should take as her life work the
imparting of this beneficent knowl-
edge to her sister women, many of
whom suffer even more than she did,
was q natural sequence. She has
evolved a system of scientific curative
and preventive physical exercises
which touch and bring into action
every muscle in the body; bath to be
taken .hX9ienically; proper food to
build vpsaissues.. and all this without
resort to materia medica or to the
knife.
Mrs. St6mds-. testimonials are al
most numberless and include cases of
the most advanced types of diseases
which she has conquered by this ell
lightened and natural method. Mrs.
Stafford contends that if each gener-
alton of humanity would take proper
care OF its, oWn. by this system Of physi-
cal:culture there need be no such thing
as illness isn the land. wol -.t gs
This system embraces cures from be-
ginning to end, among others: <
Catarrh cured in ten days to two
months. .!in :
Headache cured in three minutes. /
Backache cured in three days.
Indigestion cured in Is to 80 minutes.
All troubles of the liver removed in
nix days time.
Constipation COT 30 years standing)
cured in one week.
Piles cured in two months-worst
kind.
Rheumatism or neuralgia cured in
side Of three weeks.
Insomnia cured in three days.
Female weakness, in any form, cured
even Tumor carried of inside of
few months.
Painful Menstruation unknown to
those In my class
Bright's Disease of the Kidneys
cured inside OF three months.
Perfect circulation OF the blood guar
anteed in three days.
In fact, something for every part of
the body, from the crown Of the head
to the sole Of the feet, etc."