The evening times., 1898-10-15

only wonder that in few years the gay i,
and sprightly girl he had married had
lost all her spirits. had faded in face and
fallen of in form, and had developed an
impatience of temper and an irritability |
of disposition which was generally as
cribed to nerves"
But there was something else that papa
did not know He did not know that
every such nervous outbreak caused hlS
wife intense mental suffering because OF
her own weakness. He did not know that
even now behind closed fingers that hid
her face the mother was weeping because
of her own passionate impaience with
the child she loved.
What makes mama so crosse" 1t is
a pitiful question. In it the little child
puts his finger right on the most salient
feature of the failure of marriage. 1t IS
not the case of one woman, but the case
of thousands. The result Is home un-
attractive to the husband, and the chill
dren's love for the mother adulterated
with fear. The husband, tired of tears
and scoldng drifts TO the village store
or the city club tG 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 woman
ly prayer on her Hps-"God bess cur
instead of blessed.
Poor woman. She is not 10 b'ame for
her nervousness and her tears II is the
natural and necessary result of her con-
ditiun. The finest musician in the world
could get nothing but discord out OF
harp whose every string was strained 10
breaking That's the way 1t is with the
woman. She is literally 'all unstrung.'
! Her nervous system is shattered. All the
harmony of the sweet girl nature is
turned TO discord. 1t is condition pc
culiar to her sex and common to wife
hood Perhaps this condition began long
ago in girIhood with irregularity in one
! of the important female functions. fol-
lowed maybe with disagreeable and de-
bilitating drain on the system. Perhaps
/ il is the immediate consequence Of the
/ great changes which take place with
/ marriage Behind such nervous condi-
! ton will be found Inflammation burning
| like a fire into the tender tissues ulcera-
tion eating like poison into the organs Of
generation. There will be irregular pc
riods, and the bearing-dOwn pains asso-
ciated with prolapsus, disagreeable. un-
natural and debilitating drain, sapping
the life and strength of the system. Some
or all these are behind that nervous con-
dition so painful for the mother, so pitt
full for the family. We know that this is
so because the treatment of thousands of
women similarly afflicted has proven 1t to
be so. We know just surely that this
condition is durable, because in all the
I 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 a matter of mere statement. Ii Is a
matter of record and a matter of evil
/ dence. 40 half million of women could
/ be put into the witness box to testify that
| they have been cured of Irregularities,
! alterations, infiammations and disagree
/ able drains on the system, by the use Of
DR.. Pierce's Fayorite Prescription. The
! larger part of this vast army of women
! are in evidence over their own signatures
reporting their former sufferings and
their permanent cure by the "Favorite
/ Prescription" We can only offer here a
4 few such letters.
Mrs. Cordelia Henson, of Cotton, Boyd
County, KY, writes: I'm October, 1889, 1
| gave birth to a baby and the treatment /
received at the hands of the midwife left
me with falling of the uterus. l had 10
health to speak of for three years. l had
another baby, which was the third child.
Ny health began to fail and i had three
! miscarriages, so i found myself complete
ly worn out. / had so many pains and
aches my life was a burden to me, and
also to all the family, for / was nervous
and cross and could not sleep. Just after
my last miscarriage lin 1886 / was taken
with a severe pain in left side. Had four
doctors come to see me, but at last /
found / was slowly dying. The doctors
said / had liver, lung and uterine troub e.
] was in bed for months and when l did
get up | was a sight to behold. / looked
like a corpse walking about COM
menced to take DR.. Pierce's Golden Med
| ical Discovery, 'Favorite Prescription
and Pellets and / was soon a well
woman. j have suffered all a woman
could suffer at my monthly period until
since / began the use of DR.. Pierce's med
| icines, but now i can say i have no pain.
| The dark circles around my eyes are GO
| ing away and / feel better in every way.
My cheeks are red and my face is white,
| but before il was yellow as saffron
Your medicines have done wonders
| for me-" writes Mrs. James w. Blacker,
! OF 629 Catharine Street, Syracuse N Y
For years my health was very poor;
! had four miscarriages; but since taking
| DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery