The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-16

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 impotence or
temper and an irritability of disposl-
ton 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 suffering be-
cause 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 pas
sionate 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 g 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 We
manly prayer on her lips-"God bless
cursed instead of blessed.
Poor womanl 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 dis
cord out of harp whose every string
was strained to breaking. That's the
way it is with the woman. She is lit
orally "all unstrung" Her nervous
Ia chaftnrpd All tho
Of the sweet girl nature is turned to
discord. 1t is a condition peculiar to
her sex and common to wifehood. Per-
haps this condition began long ago in
girlhood with irregularity In one of the
important female functions followed
maybe with a disagreeable and de-
bilitating drain on the system. Per-
haps it is the immediate consequence
Of the great changes which take place
with marriage. Behind such nerv-
Gus condition will be found infamma-
ton burning like fire into the tender
tissues, liberation eating like poison
into the organs of generation. There
will be irregular periods, and the bear
ing down pains, associated with pro-
lapsus, a disagreeable, unnatural and
facilitating drain, sapping the life and
strength Of the system. Some or all
these are behind that nervous condition
SO painful for the mother. so pitiful for
the family. We know that this is so
because the treatment of thousands of
women similarly afflicted has proven 1t
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 hundred have failed
of complete and perfect cure; and even
these two have generally been benehted.
This is not matter of mere statement.
It is a matter of record and a matter
nf A half q million OF
men could be put into the witness box
to testify that they have been cured or
irregularities, alterations, infiamma-
lions and disagreeable drains on the
system by the use of DR.. Pierce's Fa>
vorite Prescription. The larger part
of this vast army of women are In evil
dence over their own signatures report
ing their former sufferings and their
permanent cure by the "Favorite Pre-
scription" We can only offer here
few such letters.
Mrs. Cordelia Henson of Cotton,
Body County, KY, writes: In Octo-
Der, 1889, I gave birth to q baby and
the treatment I received at the hands
of the midwife left me with falling OF
the uterus. I had no health to speak
of for three years. I had another baby
which was the third child. My health
began to fail and I had three niscar-
rfages. so / found myself completely
worn out 7 had so many pains and
aches my life was burden to me and
also to all the family. for 1 was nervous
and cross, and could not sleep. Just
after my last miscarriage Gin 1880 I
was taken with a severe pain in my left
side. Had four doctors come to see
me, but at last found I was slowly
diving The doctors said I had liver,
lung and uterine trouble I was IN
bed for months, and when I did get
UP I was a sight to behold. I looked
like a corpse walking about. I COM
menced to take Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. 'Favorite Prescrip-
ton and Pellets and I was soon a
we'll woman. I have suffered all wo-
man could suffer at my monthly spe-
riod until since I began the use Of DR..
Pierce's medicines, but now I can say
have no pain. The dark circles