The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-08-28

been beautiful, gaunt and ragged men
who had once been prosperous, could
scarcely realize that prison doors
which seemed forever sealed were at n
last opened to them"
But if it is a glorious and noble thing
for this great country, with it's mag
nificent illimitable power, to throw
wide open the prison doors and release
the miserable creatures so desperately
ground beneath SPANS iron heel, 1t is
no less great and pressing duty of
American manhood to think 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 sun
shine and happiness of life as COM
pletely and hopelessly as If they were
immured in the darkest confines Of
Spanish dungeon.
Sentenced to years of continual suf-
fering WEAKNESS and distaste of liv-
ing, their sense of melancholy and de-
spair filing even their own cheerful
homes with prison-like gloom. the
daily round of homework 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
diseases peculiar to her sex cannot but
feel that this penalty which nature has
inflicted upon her Is more unreasonable
than the despotism of a Spanish ty-
rant. How startling 1t seems that
true woman, capable in heart and soul
of being a loving wife and mother.
should, by sheer physical incapacity.
be deprived of the browning happiness
of womanhoOd.
A QUESTION FOR HUSBANDS.
This Is something for every husband
in the land to consider, and then deter
mine IL 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 1t should be;
the everything source Of comfort and
Joy.
No one can give an atling, sensitive
woman too much sympathy. The best
of husbands cannot half appreciate
what she suffers. If the doctor is
nose the case correctly. The ordinary
local practitioner has no special knowl-
edge Of special diseases He will prob
ably prescribe for indigestion" or
"liyer 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
lie where the cause of the whole diff
Guilty lies and If she does, the thought
of the notifying 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 little
while. But no woman ever was or
ever can be we'll while a hidden ailment
of this nature Is daily and hourly sap
ping away Nher very 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-
binary Prescription" is the outgrowth
of thorough education, deep research
ana an diInOSl uIp6ti dllCiCo experience
It's 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 Buff
falo, he has had wider practical expe-
rience In this special field Of medical
practice than probably any other physi-
clan in America.
He designed this marvellous Pre-
scription'' for the one specific purpose
of healing. strengthening and purifying
the distinctly feminine organism. 1t Is
for this and nothing else. It heals all
Lucrative conditions and unnatural
drains; overcomes all weaknesses and
arrangements; imparts strength to<the
supporting ligaments and tonic power
to the nerve center5.
There never was any other medicine
SO scientifically devised for the express
benefit of womankind; there never was
any other which accomplished this pur-