The times., 1898-08-05

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ties and atrocities toward women which
characterize the Spanish race being du-
plicated under the rule Of an Anglo-Saxon
nation! Impossible.
No wonder so many frightened refugees
look upon the American army as their de-
liverance from the hands of brutal and
inhuman mob.
The way a nation treats its women Is
the mark of its standing among the world
of nations, and shows in an instant its
state of civilization orsof savagery.
THE AMERICAN SENTIMENT.
Americans exalt their women as the
better part OF the nation and render them
such true devoted homage as womankind
receives in no other country in the world.
1t is not mere lip-service nor the shall
low gallantry which parades itself in fine
phrases and extravagant compliments. 1t
is the simple and sincere Difference of
genuine manhood towards the sex which
includes their mothers, sisters, sweet
hearts and wives.
How fully do American women appre-
ciate and reciprocate this obvious senu-
ment of American manhood? 1t is
question worth looking into. Do the wom-
en- of our country fully realize the oppor-
tunities for happiness and power which
lie within their grasp? If they should
lose a large proportion of the queenly
heritage SO freely accorded and which
rightfully belongs to them, where lies the
blame and wherein is the redress2
HOW 1T is SOMETIMES THWARTED.
Many woman-many a thousand wom-
en-throughout this land where woman
Lii fe nd Iaad H,-ag of
constant misery and sorrow. Many a
woman feels that her daily lot is wretch
ed and unhappy beyond description. She
is weighted down by a crushing burden
of physical weakness that her husband
cannot understand, and for which he does
not know how to make allowance, SIM
ply because he is a man.
He forgets-if indeed he ever realizes
that a woman's entire existence, mental
as well as physical is bound up in and
identified with the delicate and important
special organism of womanhood. When a
woman is peevish. fretful, nervous, full
of aches, pains and constant miseries, he
will seldom attribute them to their actu-
al cause.
WHERE THE BLAME LIES.
He will blame a woman's temper for
disease and weakness. He will forget
his loyalty and patience; grow careless
of her feelings, neglectful and even per-
haps unkind. What should be the de-
light and comfort of domestic life is
embittered and sometimes almost de-
stroyed through mutual ignorance of the
great fundamental facts which control
and color the woman's physical life
Should there not be a more thorough
confidence and frank understanding he
tween husbands and wives, and between
mothers and daughters on this all i'm
portant subject? Ought not everyone
concerned TO make this problem of re-
pairing the physical capacity, upon which
all other capability depends, the fore
most object of their earnest solicitude?
The kindest of husbands cannot fully
sympathize with what he does not under
stand. However terribly woman suf-
fers she hates to be complaining of ILL
health all the time; she hates to ac-
knowledge that she has any weakness
of this nature. If she calls in the doc
tor, nine times in ten the inexperienced
local practitioner does not diagnose the
trouble correctly. He prescribes for liver
disease or heart weakness; or he may
say: your nerves and stomach need a
little toning up; that's, all He will sell
dom recognize the fact that the real
trouble is in the organs distinctly femin-
ine, the special, intricate and sensitive
structure which fits woman for wife,
hood and motherhood.
WHY WOMEN HESITATE.
When sensitive, modest woman once
fairly realizes the cause of the continual
aches and pains that are sapping her vi
tally and making her life failure one
of the first thoughts that come to her is
a dread of the mortifying questioning,
examinations and local applications which
doctors so uniformly insist upon; and 1t
seems to her almost as If it were better
10 endure her constant pains and miseries
than submit to this embarrassing ordeal.
ONE woMAN'S EXPERIENCE.
The fact that such an alternative is en-
tirely needless; that there is perfect
and unfailing remedy by which her trou-
bles may be absolutely cured in the pri-
vacy of her own home without resort to
these repugnant methods, comes to many
a woman like revelation of mercy and
deliverance. For one year l suffered
more than tongue can express" says Mrs.
Lily Heckart, of Bartlesville, Cherokee
Nation. Indian Territory. 81 was In bed
nearly all the time. / was scarcely able
to work half of the time. I could not even
dress myself God alone knows what l
suffered. / had falling of the womb so
badly that at times l could not be turned