Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-08-11
THE AMERICAN SENTIMENT.

THE AMERICAN SENTIMENT.
Americans cxalt their women as the bet.
ter part of the nation. and render then
such true, devoted homage as womankinC
eccives in no other country in the world
| 1t is not mere lip-service nor the shall.
low sallantry which parades itself in fine
phrases and cNtravagant compliments. II
lis the simple and sincere Difference OF
lgenuinc manhood towards the sex which
Includes their mothers, sisters, sweet
hearts and wives.
1 How fully do American women appre-
ciate and reciprocate this obvious Senti-
ment of American manhood? II is "A qucs.
ton worth looking into. Do the women
of our country fully realize the oppor-
tunties for happiness and power which
lie within their grasp? If they should lose
a large proportion of the qucenly heritage
so freely accorded and which rightfully
belongs to them, where lies the blame
and wherein is the redress?
HOW IT is SOMETIMES THWARTED
| Many n woman--many thousand wo-
mcn-throughout this land where Woman
kind is loved and rovcrenced lead lives
of constant misery and sorrow. Many a
woman feels that her daily lot is wretched
and unhappy beyond description. She Is
weighted down by a crushing burden Of
physical weakness that her husband can
not understand. and for which he does
not know how to make allowance, simply
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 peevsh, fretful nervous full of
! ,ches pains and constant miscres, he will
seldom attribute them to their actual
cause.
WHERE THE BLAME LIES
He will blame a womans temper for
what is rightfully due to a condition of
disease and weakness. He will forget his
loyalty and patience; grow careless Of her
feelings, neglectful and even perhaps un-
kind What should be the delight and
comfort of domestic life is embittered and
sometimes almost destroyed through
mutual ignorance OF the great fundamcn-
tai facts which control and color the wo-
mans physical life,
Should there not be more thorough
confidence and frank understanding be-
tween husbands and wives, and between
mothers and daughters on this all i'm
portant subject? Ought not everyone con-
cerned TO make this problem of repairing
the physical capacity. upon which all
other capabilty depends, the foremost OBJ
ject of their earnest solicitude?
The kindest of husbands cannot fully
sympathize with what he does not under
stand. However terribly woman suffers
she hates to be complaining OF il-heulth
all the time; she hates to acknowledge
that she has any weakness. of this nature
IL she calls in the doctor, nine times in
ten the Inexperienced local practitioner
does not diagnose the trouble correctly
lie prescribes for liver disease or hcart-
weakness; or he may say: Your nerves
and stomach need little toning up that's
ALL" He will seldom recognize the fact
that the real trouble is i'm the organs dis
tinctly feminine. the special. intricate and
sensitive structure which fits a woman for
wifehood and motherhood
WHY WOMEN HESITATE.
When sensitive modest woman once
fairly realizes the cause of the continual
aches and pains that are sapping her
vitality and making her life a failure, one
of the first thoughts that come to her
Is dread of the mortifying questioning,
examinations and local applications
which doctors so uniformly insist upon;
and II seems to her almost as If It were
better to endure her constant pains and
miseries than submit to this embarrassing
ordeal
ONE WOMAN'S EXPERIENCE.
The fact that such an alternative is
entirely needless that there is perfect
and unfailing remedy by which her
troubles may be absolutely cured in the
privacy of her own home without resort
to these repugnant methods. comes to
many woman like revelation of mercy
and delverance. For one year ! suf-
fered more than tongue can express"
says Mrs. Lily Hackart, of Bartlesville,
Cherokee Nat, Ind, Ter, II was in bed
nearly all the time. | was scarcely able
ia work half of the time ! could not even
dress myself God alone knows what |
suffered. l had falling of the womb SO
badly that at times | could not be turned
in bed. | suffered from palpitation of the
heart. Il would often faint away and It
seemed as II never would recover. | had
sick headache nearly all the time. and