The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-13

Splendid because It Is the qualities that
make such a sacrifice possible, that also
make the American woman the glory of
her sex. Sad because it is not necessary.
That splendid charge of the Light Bri-
gade a Balaklava, when unreasoning, I'M
replying, the 600 obedient to the rigid rule
of duty hurled themselves against the de-
strOying cannon, was justly criticised by
the great Frenchman in the words: ut
was magnificent but it was not war"
The same criticism lies against the
splendid sacrifice of womanhood to the
ideal of modesty. 1t is magnificent but it
is not necessary. Not necessary because
there is now. provision made for the
treatment of the most delicate female dis
orders without offensive examinations or
the use of local applications. But before
going into a detailed account of this great
provision for the relief and cure of women
let us consider the situation. Here is
A YOUNG GIRL
Standing with reluctant feet where
Womanhood and girlhood meet
In this first critical period of her life she
begins to experience suffering which she
necessarily relates to the organs of sex
What it is she does not know. Why it is
she does not understand. She needs med
zeal 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 crown of thorns
She sees the glowing lamp light of cheer
full homes She hears the cooling of the hap
Ply 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
py. But now a change comes. Her eve
by. But now &C hange comes. Her eve
loses its brightness Her step loses its
spring. The color fades from her cheek.
Frequently she is compelled to lie down
and rest. She is in constant pain. She
looks dreadingly down the calendar to-
ward the hour when the burden of moth
erhood 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 examina-
tions'as her modesty revolts at. And vet
all this suffering is, as has been said. I'M
necessary, because to match modesty of
SpSSCu tHeIS. IS InOueSty OF hearing.
There is one physician who has fully
met the needs of modest women bv offer
ing absolute confidence in hearing-abso-
lutte confidence in OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
with absolute competence in treatment
His remarkable discoveries and the wav
in which he has met woman's peculiar
needs has made DR.. r. " Pierce (chief
consulting physician to the Invalids' Ho-
tel and Surgical Institute, of Buffalo. N
W, the friend and contidant of tens of
thousands of modest women, In over
thirty years experience with female dis
orders of every possible type, treating
them 10 the number of hundreds of thous-
ands DR.. Pierce has been brought into
relation with every form of feminine
weakness, feminine popularity. and fem
mime disease. Where a local practitioner
has experimental and failed with ten
cases DIR. Pierce's discoveries and advice
have gone straight to the root ana cured
ten thousand. Every variation of svmn-
tomatology is known to this ife-lons
specialist. The presence of complications
that confuse and battle the ordinary prac-
uuoner are every day experiences and ev-
cry day successes to him.
One of his great discoveries, DIR. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription, which is sold
UNDER GOVERNMENTAL, PROTEc-
TTON,
has already been found an infanible cure
by many hundreds of thousands of women