The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-08-14

Americans exalt their women as the bet
| ter part of the nation, and render them
such true, devoted homage as womankind
receives in no other country in the world.
| 1t is not mere lip-service nor the shallow
gallantry which parades itself in fine
phrases and extravaganza compliments. 1t
is the simple and sincere difference of gen.
uine manhood towards the sex which in
cludes their mothers, sisters, SweetheartS
and wives.
How fully do American women appre-
ciate and reciprocate this obvious senti-
ment of American manhood? 1t Isl a ques-
ton worth looking into. Do the women OF
our country fully realize the opportunities
for happiness and power which lie within
their grasp? If they should lose a large
proportion of the queenly 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 a woman-many thousand wom-
en-throughout this land, where woman
kind is loved and reverenced, 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 be-
cause he Is a man.
He forgets-if indeed he ever realizes
that a womans entire existence. mental as
well as physical, is bound up In and identi-
fed with the delicate and important special
is peevish, fretful. nervous. full of aches.
pains and constant miseries, 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 condition OF
disease and weakness. He will forget his
loyalty and patience; grow careless Of her
feelings, neglectful and even perhaps I'M
kind. What should be the delight and
comfort of domestic life Is embittered and
sometimes almost destroyed through mu-
tual ignorance of the great fundamental
facts which control and color the woman $
physical life.
Should there not be more thorough con-
fdence and frank understanding between
husbands and wives, and between mothers
and daughters on this all-important sub
ject? Ought not everyone concerned to
make this problem of repairing the physic-
al capacity, upon which all other capabil-
ity depends, the foremost object of their
earnest solicitude?
| The kindest of husbands cannot fully
sympathize with what he does not under
stand. However terribly woman suf-
fers she hates to be complaining of ILL
health all the time; she hates to acknowl-
| edge that she has any weakness of this
nature. If she calls in the doctor, nine
times in ten the inexperienced local prac-
titioner does not diagnose the trouble cor
rectly. He prescribes for liver disease or
heart-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 in the organs
distinctly feminine, the special. intricate
and sensitive structure which fits wom-
an for wifehood and motherhood.
Why Women Hesitate
| When a sensitive, modest woman once
fairly realizes the cause of the continual
aches and pains that are sapplng her vi
tally and making her life a failure. one OF
the first thoughts that come to her is a
dread of the notifying questioning. ex-