Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1898-04-22

" Standing with reluctant feet

Standing with reluctant feet
Where womanhoOd and girlhood meet"
In the first critical period of her life she
begins 10 experience suffering which she
necessarily connects with the organs Of sex.
What it is >'ie does not know Why il is
she does not understand. She needs medi-
Cal advice. But she shrinks from H. Her
modesty is up III arms at the thought of
questions TO be asked, Of examinations 10
be submitted to, both alike repugnant 10
delicacy. SO she suffers in silence. The
strain on the delicate machinery of her
organism becomes more severe. Painful
irregularities become yet more painful.
And so, silently, she troads the painful
path TO confirmed invalidism. Her crown
of modesty becomes a crown of thorns
She sees the glowing lamp light of cheer
ful homes. She hears the cooling of the
happy babe the prattle Of joyous children,
and she fears that all that life of home and
love is not for her.
Or take the other typical case of the
woman who has entered on the cares and
DUTIES OF wIFEHooD.
She has always been healthy and happy
But now change comes Her eve loses
its brightness Her step loses its spring
The color fades from her check. Ere
quently she Is compelled TO lie down and
rest She is in constant pain. She looks
dreadingly down the calendar toward the
hour when the burden of motherhood will
be laid upon her. She, too, needs help.
But she too suffers silently, because she
cannot speak and open the door TO such
questions or such examinations as her
modcsty revolts at And yet all this suf
feriug IS as has been said. unnecessary,
because TO match modesty of speech there
is modesty of hearing
There Is one physician who has fully met
the needs Of modest women by offering
absolute confidence III hearing - absolute
confidence in COnsultatiOn-cOmbi with
absolute competence in treatment His
remarkable discoveries and the way in
which lie has met woman peculiar needs
has made Dr. Il. Y Pierce lChicf consult
ing physician To- the Invalids' Hotel and
Surgica Institute, Of Buffalo, n ", the
friend aud Confdaut of tens of thousands
of modest women. In over thirty years
experience with female disorders of every
possible type, treating them TO the number
Of hundreds Of thousands. Or Pierce has
been brought into relation with every form
of feminine weakness, feminine pccul-
iarity, and feminine disease. Where
local practitioner has experimental and
failed with ten cases DR.. PlcrCes discover
les and advice have gone staight to the
root and cured ten thousand. Every varia-
tion of symptomatology is known to this
lifelong specialist The presence of COM
pliCations that confuse and battle the ordin-
AIRY practitioner are every day experiences
and every day successes to him
His medical discoveries and his conf
dental, fatherly advice, are to-day the only
harbors 10 which weak, hopeless, unfor-
tunate woman can turn for help and gel IL
niHcfy-SeueH times ont Of e7ctV haHdyed.
Those who turn TO him experience at once,
instead Of a skirmishing with symptoms,
a banishing Of suffering His Favorite
Prescription - not only removes all pain
ful female irregularities but acts directly
on the delicate organs that suffer in the
strain and stress connected with mother
hood. II supplies vital force and energy.
Dr. Pierce Is at all times ready TO give
advice, free Of charge TO those who employ
his remedies Address him as above.