The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-12

did not know how to answer. He could
only wonder that in a few years the
gay and sprightly girl he had married
had lost all her spirits. had faded in
face and fallen off in form, and had
developed an impatience of temper and
an irrtability Of disposition which was
generally ascribed to nerves"
But there was something else that
papa did not know. He did not know
that every such nervous outbreak
caused his wife intense mental suffer-
ing because of her own weakness. He
did not know that even now behind
closed fingers that hid her face the
mother was weeping because of her
own passionate impatience with the
child she loved
What makes mamma so CROSSE" 1t
is a pitiful question. In it the little
| child puts his finger right on the most
salient feature in the failure of mar
riage. 1t is not the case of one wo-
man but the case of thousands. The
result is a home unattractive to the
husband, and the children's love for
the mother adulterated with fear. The
husband, tired of tears and scolding,
| drifts TO the village store or the city
club to spend his evenings. The poor
wife sits and looks up at the motto,
which she hung on the wall with a
wifely pride in her heart and a woman
| ly prayer on her lips-"God bless our
| home" She feels that the home is
| cursed instead of blessed.
| Poor woman! She is not to blame
| for her nervousness and her tears. 1t is
| the natural and necessary result of her
| condition. The finest musician in the
world could get nothing but discord
| out OF harp whose every string was
strained to breaking. That's the way
! 1t is with the woman. She is literally
"all unstrung." Her nervous system
| is shattered All the harmony of the
sweet girl nature is turned to discord
| 1t is a condition peculiar to her sex
! and common to wifehood. Perhaps
| this condition began long ago in girl
hood with irregularity in one of the
| important female functions followed
maybe with a disagreeable and debili-
tating drain on the system. Perhaps
it is the immediate consequence of the
| great changes which take place with
marriage. Behind such a nervous con-
| dition will be found Inflammation
burning like a fire into the tender tis-
| sues, liberation eating like poison into
the organs of generation. There will
be irregular periods, and the bearing
| down pains, associated with prolapsus,
| disagreeable, unnatural and debili-
| tating pain, sapping the life and
| strength of the system. Some or all
| these are behind that nervous condi-
! ton so painful for the mother so pitt
ful for the family. We know that this
| is so because the treatment of thous-
ands OF women similarly afflicted has
proven IL to be so. We know just as
surely that this condition is durable,
because in all the thousands of cases
treated, only two out of every hun
| dred have failed of complete and per-
| feet cure; and even these two have
| generally been benefited. This is not
a matter of mere statement. 1t is a
matter of evidence. A half a million
of women could be put into the wit
ness box to testify that they have been
| cured of Irregularities. alterations, in
| Examinations, and disagreeable drains
| on the system, by the use of Dr.
| Pierce's Favorite Prescription. The
| larger part of this vast army of wo-
| men are in evidence over their own
signatures reporting their former suf-
| ferings and their permanent cure by
the "Favorite Prescription" We can
only offer here a few such letters.
Mrs. Cordelia Henson, of Cotton,
Boyd Co., KY, writes: I'm October,
1889, | gave birth to a baby and the
treatment l received at the hands of
the midwife left me with falling of
the uterus. l had no health to speak
OF for three years. had another baby
which was the third child. My health
began to fail and I had three mis-
carriages so found myself completely
worn out. l had so many pains and
aches my life was burden to me and
also to all the family, for | was ner-
vous and cross and could not sleep.
Just after my last miscarriage Gin 1886
l was taken with a severe pain in left
side. Had four doctors come to see
me but at last ! found / was slowly
dying. The doctors said / had liver.
lung and uterine trouble. / was i'm
bed for months and when did get up