Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-08-19
HOsPTTAL. NEW YORK CITY.

tOSPIIAL, NEW 1Ohk ClII.
dened with household work and care.
and with the constant draft upon her
strength that comes with frequent
motherhood, to fulfil her whole wifely
duty? How can the ordinary woman
struggling with the ordinary conditions
OF this Work-a-day world, be the ideal
housekeeper, wife and mother all at
once?
This is the greatest problem with
which the women of America have ~
deal: and when the question has to be
worked out in the face of constant
physical weakness and suffering, no
wonder so many thousand Of women
feel that the demands of life are
greater than they can meet. and
heavier than they can possibly endure.
No wonder they live for weeks and
months plunged in the depths Of
wretchedness and despondency.
A woman who suffers inwardly from
some feminine weakness, or disease. IS
in a certain sense almost alone in her
trouble; her husband cannot half ap-
preciate her suffering. no matter how
kind hearted he may be. She hates to
be complaining all the time. Often she
ucTSelI may HOt ICdliAC CAoStIy
the trouble is: and II the local doctor is
called in, he will not once in a dozen
times diagnose the trouble correctly.
DODGING THE QUESTION.
20 your liver needs a little toning
| up," he will say: or Your stomach is
out of kelter." Perhaps he will call it
heart trouble" or nervousness" and
| give the usual stereotyped treatment
that is of no more avail than so much
water: while all the time the real
trouble. the undermining weakness in
the organism distinctly feminine, is
draining and torturing the victims l:fe
away unchecked.
After all the poor unhappy woman is
almost glad that the doctor, In his
easy going fashion. fails to suggest
where the actual trouble lies; for we'll
she knows that the next step would bs
the detestayble examinations and local
applications which modest women hold
| in such repugnance.
THE REAL ANSWER.
1t is to countless thousands of women
in just this dire extremity of suffering
that the knowledge of DR.. Pierce's
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cures these troubles scientifically, cont
pletely and in the privacy Of ones
home without resort to these hated and
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/ II was tired and sick all the time. :
Lsays Mrs. o. S. Adams, Of Fargo. Cas-
leo, N. Oak. II had female weakness
very badly; so had to be in bed part
of the time. could not do my house.
work; 1 had fainting spells. nervous
headache. backache and pain in my
Ileft side when would lie down. I haa
pains and aches all over. TcOmmenced
taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
ton and had not taken two bottlel
4 when 1 was able to be around agaiu
and to do my work, with no pain.
have taken five bottles Of Dr. Pierce'i
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| that some other suffering woman viii
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). l4of Brlmneld. Hampden Co., Mass
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