The record-union., 1898-09-26
A YOUNG GIRL

Standing with reluctant feet
Where wofnanhood and girlhood meet
In the first critical period of her life she
begins to experience suffering which she
necessarily connects with the organs of sex.
What il is she does not know. Why it is
she does not understand. She needs medi-
cal advice. But she shrinks from it. Her
modesty is up in arms at the thought of
questions to be asked, of examinations to
be submitted to, both alike repugnant to
delicacy. So she suffers in silence. The
strain on the delicate machinery of her
organism becomes more severe. Painful
irregularities become yet more painful
And SO, silently, she treads the painful
path to confirmed invalidism. Her crown
of modesty becomes a crown of thorns
She sees the glowing lamp light of cheer
full homes. She hears the cooling of the
happy babe, the prattle of, joyous children,
and she fears that all that life of home and
love is not for her.
Or take the other typical case of the
woman who has entered on the cares and
DUTIES OF wIFEHooD.
She has always been healthy and happy
But now a change comes. Her eye loses
its brightness. Her step loses its spring
The color fades from her cheek. Ere
ouently she is compelled to lie down and
rest. She is in constant pain. She looks
dreadingiy down the calendar toward the
. hour WnGn IlS DuIQSu O4 IAOkuSLuOOO Will
be laid upon her. She, too, needs help
But she too suffers silently, because She
cannot speak and open the door to such
questions or such examinations as her
rnodesty revolts at. And yet all this suf-
fering is, as has been said, unnecessary,
because to match modesty of speech there
is modesty of hearing.
There is one physician who has fully met
the needs of modest women by offering
absolute confidence in hearing absolute
confidence in nsultation-combined with
absolute competence in treatment His
remarkable discoveries and the way in
which he has met woman's peculiar needs
has made DR.. K. '. Pierce tchiet consult
ing physician to the Iuvalids Hotel and
Surgical Institute, of Buffalo, n. ", the
friend and conhdant of tens of thousands
of modest women. In over thirty years
experience with female disorders of every
possible type, treating them TO the number
of hundreds of thousands, DR.. Pierce has
been brought into relation with every form
of feminine weakness, feminine pecul-
iarity, and feminine disease. Where a
local practitioner has experimental and
failed with ten cases Dr. Pierce's discover
les and advice have gone stalght to the
root and cured ten thousand Every varia-
tion of symptomatology is known to this
lifelong specialist. The presence OF com
plications that confuse and battle the ordin-
ary practitioner are every day experiences
and every day successes to him.
His medical discoveries and his conf
dental, fatherly advice, are to-day the only
harbors to which weak, hopeless, unfor-
tunate woman can turn for help and get IL
7ainefy-SeveR times oasf Of every hundred.
Those who turn to him experience at once,
instead of skirmishing with symptoms,
a banishing of suffering. His Favorite
Prescription not only removes all pam
full female irregularities but acts directly
on the delicate organs that suffer IN the
strain and stress connected with mother
hood 1t supplies vital force and energy.
DR.. Pierce is at all times ready to give
advice, free of charge, to those who employ