The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-16

thence with the child she loved.
What makes mamma so cross? II IS
a pitiful question. In 1t the little child
puts his finger right on the most salient
feature in the failure of marriage. 1t is
not the case of one woman, but the case
Of thousands. The result is a home un-
attractive to the husband, and the chill
dren's love for the mother adulterated
with fear. The husband, tired of tears
and scolding, drifts 10 the village store
or the city club to spend his evenings.
The poor wife sits and looks up at the
motto which she hung on the wall with
a wifely pride in her heart and a wom-
anly prayer on her lips-"God bless our
home She feels that the home is cursed
instead of blessed.
Poor woman! She is not to blame
for her nervousness and her tears. 1t is
the natural and necessary result OF hef
condition. The finest musician in the
world could get nothing but discord out
of a harp whose every string was
strained to breaking. That's the way It
is with the woman. She is literally all
unstrung." Her nervous system is shat
tered. All the harmony Of the sweet
girl nature is turned to discord. 1t is a
condition peculiar to her sex and com
mon to wifehood. Perhaps this condi-
ton began long ago in girlhood with
irregulaTity in one of the important
female functions, followed maybe with a
disagreeable and facilitating drain on
the system Perhaps 1t is the inmedi-
ate consequence of the great changes
which take place with marriage. Be
hind such a nervous condition will be
found Inflammation burning like a f1re
into the tender tissues liberation eat
ing like poison into the organs of gen
Grafton There will be irregular periods,
and the bearing-down pains, associated
with prolapsus, q disagreeable, unnat-
ural and debilitating drain sapping the
life and strength of the system. Some
or all these are behind that nervous
condition SO painful for the mother, SO
pitiful for the family We know that
this is so because the treatment of thou
sands of women similarly afflicted has
proven it to be so. We know just as
because in all the thousands of cases
treated, only two out of every hundred
have failed of complete and perfect
cure; and even these two have generally
been benefited This is not matter of
mere statement. 1t is Q matter of
record and a matter of evidence. A half
million of women could be put into
the witness box to testify that they have
been cured of Irregularities, alterations.
infiammations and disagreeable drains
on the system by the use of DR. Pierce S
Favorite Prescription. The larger part
of this vast army of women are in evil
dence over their own signatures report
ing their former sufferings and their
permanent cure by the "Fayorite Pre-
scription." We can only offer here a
Mrs. Cordelia Henson of Cotton, Boyd
county. Ky, writes: 'In October 1889 !
gave birth to a baby, and the treatment
left me with falling of the uterus. had
no health to speak of for three years. |
had another baby, which was the third
child. Ny health began TO fail, and !
had three miscarriages, SO found myself
completely worn out. I had so many
pains and aches my life was burden to
me, and also to all the family, for4s. was
nervous and cross and could not sleep:
Just after my last miscarriage lin 1886 !
was taken with a severe pain in the left
side. Had four doctors come to see me,
1.a,A - ala rrIN 1rrttn
The doctors said I had liver, lung and
uterine trouble / was in bed for months.
and when I did get up was sight to
behold l looked like a corpse walking
about. I commenced to take DR.. Pierce S
Golden Medical Discovery, Favorite
Prescription and Pellets, and was soon
well woman. | have suffered all a
woman could suffer at my monthly pc
riod, until since I began the use of DR..
Pierce's medicines. but now ! can say l
have no pain The dark circles around
ter in every way MY cheeks are red
and my face is white but before it was as
yellow as saffron
"Your medicines have done wonders for
me, writes Mrs. James w Blacker of
629 Catherine street, Syracuse, n. Y.
For years my health was very poor: /
had four miscarriages, but since taking
DR.. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery
and 'Favorite Prescription have much
better health. and now | have fine
healthy baby
Hundreds of grateful mothers write to
give thanks for relief from suffering
usually experienced in confinement.
Mrs. Carrie 3. Bonner of Dayton.
Green county, Wis, is only one of the
many grateful mothers that thus testify
to the efficacy Of DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription. She says: Il can highly
recommend DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery and also his 'Favorite Pre-
scription' having taken the latter for
nine months previous to confinement /
suffered scarcely any compared with
what / had at other times.
Many grateful letters come from hus-
bands who are made glad by the wife'e
new health and happiness. For I'VE
years my wife was in an almost helpless
condition, suffering from female weak
ness, writes J 8. Everitt, Esq, of
Hagerman. Washington county, Fla
Last September / decided to have her
try DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
She took several bottles of the medicine
and gave birth to a ten-pound son on Jan
uary 3lst, 1898. She is now sound and
well and doing her homework. +"
My wife was sick for over eight years, .
writes Albert II. Fulte, Esq, Of Alta