The evening times., 1898-03-25

her pillow because It wasn't any good
for her TO dream. No man could marry
her life OF solitary suffering was
hers Yet her sad smile only got brighter
as her cross got heavier. One day a
young man found his way into that
home. looking upon this girl. he loved
her. And so he came often and she grew
TO look for him. and learned 10 lean on
him. and dreamed the pretty dreams that
come to pure women whose hearts God
has fashioned for happy love. But over
all the prospect was the shadow of her
cross.
1T could never be. never be- She
said Il over and over again TO herself
many a night as the tears slipped down
her face. Then she got to saying: If
II only could be! If II only could be-!
And she said this many times day and
night. one day she lay on the sofa and
began 10 say. ut shall be-
1T SHALL BE-"
"I'u break this cross to pieces or I'll
die trying. And then she looked around
for help And by chance or providence
there came into her hands n book-the
book whose title and contents are re-
ferred TO below. 1t appealed TO her.
Common sense was what she needed.
She realized now that she had eyes.
hands. organs. dimensions like her girl
friends. who were matrons and mothers.
She realized that ii was not common
sense that should be porn 10 De crushed
by her cross.
Life liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness were her inalienable rights and she
wanted the full rights of her womanhood.
II was common sense she needed. She
had tried all the uncommon, eXtraordi-
nary and extravagant forms OF treat
ment, now she wanted less medicine and
HrrG ha
hogan the use of DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription. The rest of the story sounds
like a fairy story. But ii is only
like n fairy story in that il ends amid
the merry clang of marriage bells and
with they lived happy ever afterward
II seemed a miracle to her friends TO
see this martyr. this patient cross bearer.
get UP from her sofa and begin 10 live
1t was more strange when she took TO
golf and the wheel, and tennis, with all
the ardor of one so long excluded from
outdoor enjoyment. And strangest of
ALI that she became the mother of heal
tby. happy children. This is not a fairy
story. Ii is the story of thousands of
women. 1t is a composite picture IN
which one can trace face behind face.
lined with suffering, channeled by tears
1t is a story as true as the parable OF the
Prodigal Son, which was not the story
q
type which repeats itself generation after
generation and is as common to Europe
as to Asia, to Africa as to America.
Is 1T YOUR STORY?
Your story either in whole or in part?
There's hope for you. There's help for
YOU. DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
has cured so many cases where life was
a daily burden under which the weak
and weary body staggered on to the
grave that ii can be recommended with
the utmost assurance in every case of
female disorders. DIR. Pierces treatment
Is based on practical common sense.
There is no need of personal interviews,
of local treatments. of offensive exami-
nations The Doctors wide experience in
a practice of thirty years as chief con-
shifting physician to the lnvalids Hotel
and Surgical Institute of Buffalo. n. y,
tho successful treatment of more than a
ouarter of a million of cases, has given
him ample opportunity to observe every
form of female disorder with all the vary
ing form of female symptoms attending
such diseases. This extended practice
and experience has put him far in ad-
vance of all other specialists in female
diseases There are no complications of
disorders that can evade his keen diagno-
sis. no singularity of symptom that can
battle his keen analysis. This is not re-
markable. 1t is the natural result of
special study, special facilities and spe-
cial gifts. The natural result of years
spent in the treatment of one class of
diseases. And these years of observation
and study have borne as their fruit Gn
part) the "Favorite Prescription" In
the majority of cases the cause of dis
ease is the same. though symptoms vary.
DR.. Pierce goes to the cause. His Favor
ite Prescription" from its first dose be-
gins the work of recuperating the system
drained by waste, putting the body on a
fighting footing with disease. Just as
the walls of Jerusalem were rebuilt by
men with sword in on hand and a
trowel in the other, so in building up the
body DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
puts q weapon into the one hand to fight
disease and into the other the materials
with which to build up the depleted and
debilitated system For this reason
A CURE RARELY FAILS
to result from the conscientious use of
the "Favorite Prescription" liberation
and Inflammation, irregularities, displace-