The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-24

been beautiful, guant and ragged men
who had once been prosperous, could
scarcely realize that prison doors which
seemed forever sealed were at last
opened to them"
But If 1t is a glorious and noble thing
for this great country, with its magnifi-
cent illimitable power, to throw wide
open the prison doors and release the
miserable creatures so desperately
ground beneath Spain's iron heel, it is
no less great and pressing duty of
American manhood to thing of the ten
thousand wives and mothers of free
America whose lot is more pathetic and
miserable than that of these wretched
Porto Ricans.
WOMEN PRISONERS OF FREE
AMERICA.
These women of our own country
with homes to shelter and hearts to
love them, with all the surroundings
which ought to make life a pleasure
and a blessing, are yet weighed down
with an inward physical weakness
which shuts them off from the sunshine
and happiness of life, as completely
and hopelessly as if they were immured
in the darkest confines of a Spanish
dungeon.
Sentenced to years of continual suf-
fering, WEAKNESS and distaste of living,
their sense of melancholy and despair
filling even their own cheerful homes
with prison-like gloom, the daily round
of housework grows more and more
irksome and dreadful until it finally
rests upon them like the leaden routine
of jail.
A woman whose life is embittered
and poisoned by the weaknesses or dis
eases peculiar to her sex, cannot but
feel that this penalty which nature has
inflicted on her is more unreasonable
than the despotism of a Spanish tyrant.
How startling 1t seems that a true
woman, capable in heart and soul of
being loving wife and mother, should,
by sheer physical incapacity, be de-
prived of the crowning happiness of
womanhood.
A QUESTION FOR HUSBANDS.
This Is something for every husband
in the land to consider, and then deter
mine If there be not something more
than fine furniture and beautiful sur
roundings needed, and which he can
furnish to brighten his wife's existence,
and to make his home, as it should be,
the everything source OF comfort and
joy.
No one can give an ailing, sensitive
woman too much sympathy. The best
of husbands cannot half appreciate
what she suffers. If the doctor is
called in, ten to one he VIII not dag
nose the case correctly. The ordinary
local practitioner has no special knowl-
edge of special diseases. He will prob
ably prescribe for indigestion" or
"liver complaint or heart trouble"
and never once reach the real funda-
mental trouble lurking in the organs
distinctly feminine.
The woman herself may hardly real
ize where the cause of the whole diff
Guilty lies, and if she does, the thought
OF the mortifying questionings, exam
nations" and local applications"
which modest women dread, will deter
her from speaking frankly. She knows
the doctor does not understand her
case; she feels that his medicines are
giving her no real help yet she takes
them in the vain hope that some way,
somehow, she will be better In a little
WHlle. But no woman ever was or
ever can be well while hidden ailment
of this nature is daily and hourly sap
ping away her life.
WHAT BOTH HUSBAND AND WIFE
SHOULD KNOW.
If every ailing woman could know
what Dr. Pierce's wonderful "Favorite
Prescription" has done for countless
thousands of her suffering sisters, fe-
male complaints would become almost
unknown throughout the length and
breadth of this country. This extraor-
dinary Prescription" is the outgrowth
of thorough education, deep research
and an almost unparalleled experience.
Its originator, DR. r. V. Pierce, of
Buffalo, N, Y, has devoted a long life
OF earnest effort TO the study and treat
ment Of the various diseases peculiar to
women. For thirty years. as chief con-
sulting physician of the famous Worlds
Dispensary Medical Association. of
Buffalo, he has had a wider practical
experience in this special field than any
other physician = America.