The San Francisco call., 1898-08-07

armyl Imagine any one If the hun- dred inhumanities and atrocities to- ward women which characterize the Spanish race being duplicated under the rule of an Anglo-Saxon nation! Impossiblel
 No wonder so many frightened refu- gees look upon the American army as their deliverance from the hands of a brutal and inhuman mob.
 The way a nation treats its women Is the mark of it's standing among the world of nations, and shows in an in stant it's state of civilization or of say agery.
 THE AMERICAN SENTIMENT.
 Americans exalt their women as the better part of the nation, and render them such true, devoted homage as womankind receives in no other coun- try in the world.
 It is not mere lip-service nor the shal- low gallantry which parades itself In fine phrases and extravagant compli- ments. It Is the simple and sincere deference of genuine manhood toward the sex which includes their mothers, sisters, sweethearts and wives.
 How fully do American women ap- preciate and reciprocate this obvious sentiment of American manhood? It is a question worth looking into. Do the women of our country fully realize
 
 power which lie within their grasp? If they should lose a large proportion of the Queenly heritage so freely ac- corded and which rightfully belongs to them, where lies the blame; and where in is the redress?
 HOW IT IS SOMETIMES
 THWARTED.
 Many a woman-many thousand women-throughout this land where womankind Is loved and reverenced, lead lives of constant misery and sor- row. Many a woman feels that her daily lot is wretched and unhappy be- yond description. She is weighted down by a crushing burden of phys ical weakness that her husband cannot understand, and for which he does not know how to make allowance, simply because he Is a man.
 He forgets-if indeed he ever realizes that a woman's entire existence, men tai as well as physical, Is bound up in and identified with the delicate and tm- portant special organism of woman hood. When woman is peevish. fret full, nervous, full of aches, pains and constant miseries, he will seldom at- tribute them to their actual cause.
 WHERE THE BLAME LIES.
 He will blame woman's temper for what is rightfully due to a condition of disease and weakness He will forget his loyalty and patience; grow careless of her feelings, neglectful and even per haps unkind. What should be the de- light and comfort of domestic life is embittered and sometimes almost de- stroyed through mutual ignorance of the great fundamental facts which con- trol and color the woman's physical life
 Should there not be more thorough confidence and frank understanding be- tween husbands and wives and between mothers and daughters on this all inn portant subject? Ought not every one concerned to make this problem of re- pairing the physical capacity, upon which all other capability depends, the foremost object of their earnest solici- tude?
 The kindest of husbands cannot fully sympathize with what he does not un- derstand. However terribly a woman suffers she hates to be complaining of ill-health all the time; she hates to &C., knowledge that she has any weakness of this nature. If she calls in the doc tor, nine times in ten the inexperienced local practitioner does not diagnose the trouble correctly. He prescribes. for liver disease or heart weakness; or he may say: Your nerves and stomach need a little toning up; that's all He will seldom recognize the fact that the real trouble Is In the organs distinctly the special intricate and sen sitive structure which fits woman for wifehood and motherhood.
 WHY WOMEN HESITATE.
 When a sensitive modest woman once fairly realizes the cause of the con tinual aches and pains that are sapping her vitality and making her life a fail ure, one of the first thoughts that come to her Is a dread of the mortifying examinations and local ap- plications which doctors so uniformly insist upon; and 1t seems to her almost as if 1t were better to endure her con- stant pains and miseries than submit to this embarrassing ordeal.
 ONE WOMAN'S EXPERIENCE.
 The fact that such an alternative is entirely needless; that there is a per- feet and unfailing remedy by which her troubles may be absolutely cured in the