The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-03-25

her pillow because It wasn't any good
for her 20 dream No man could marry
her A life of solitary suffering was
hers. Yet her sad smile only got brighter
as her cross got heavier. One day
young man found his way into that
home; looking upon this girl, he loved
her. And so ne came often and she grew
to look for him, and learned to lean on
him. and dreamed the pretty dreams that
come to pure women whose hearts God
has fashioned for happy love. But over
all the prospect was the shadow OF her
cross.
1T could never be, never be-" She
said it over and over again to herself
amany a night as the tears slipped down
her face. Then she got to saying: III
it only could be- If 1t only could be-
And she said this many times day and
night one day she lay on the sofa and
began TO say. ut shall be-
1T SHALL BE-"
"TlI break this cross to pieces or III
die trying And then she looked around
for help. And by chance or providence
there came into her hands book-the
book whose title and contents are re-
ferred to below 1t appealed to her.
Common sense was what she needed.
She realized now that she had eyes.
hands organs, dimensions like her girl
friends who were matrOns and mothers.
She realized that it was not common
sense that should be born to be crushed
by her cross.
Life. liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness were her inalienable rights and she
wanted the fun rights of her womanhood.
| II was common sense she needed. She
had tried all the uncommon, eXtraordi-
| nary and eXtraVagant forms OF treat
ment now she wanted less medicine and
more common sense. 1t was thus she
began the use of DR.. PierceS Favorlte
Prescription. The rest of the story sounds
like a fairy story. But it is only
| like a fairy story in that 1t ends amid
| the merry clang of marriage bells ana
with they lived happy ever afterward. 2
! 1t seemed a miracle to her friends TO
| see this martyr, this patient cross bearer,
get up from her sofa and begin to live.
1t was more strange when she took to
| golf and the wheel, and tennis, with all
| the ardor of one so long excluded from
| outdoor enjoyment. And strangest of
all that she became the mother OF heal
thv happy children. This is not a fairy
story 1t is the story of thousands of
women. 1t is q composite picture III
| which one can trace face behind face,
lined with suffering, channeled by tears.
| II is a story as true as the parable of the
| Prodgal Son, which was not the story
| of one young man but the story of the
| type which repeats itself generation after
generation and is as common to Europe
as to Asia, to Africa as to America.
IS IT YOUR STORY?
! Your story either in whole or in part?
There's hope for you. There's help for
| you. Dr. PieTces Favorite Prescription
| has cured so many cases where life was
a daily burden under which the weak
| and weary body staggered on to the
| grave that il can be recommended with
| the utmoss assurance in every case of
| female disorders. DIR. Pierce's treatment
! is based on practical common sense
! There is no need of personal interviews
| of local treatments, of offensive eNdml-
nations. The Doctors wide experience IN
| n practice of thirty years as chief con-
| sulting physician to the Invalids' Hotel
| and Surgical Institute of Buffalo, n. Y,
| the successful treatment of more than a
| quarter of a million of cases, has given
| him ample opportunity to observe every
| form Of female disorder with all the vary
! ing form of female symptoms attending
| such diseases. This extended practice
| and experience has put him far In adj
vance of all other specialists in female
| diseases There are no complications of
| disorders that can evade his keen diagno-
sis. no singularity of symptom that can
| battle his keen analysis. This Is not re-
| markabe 1t is the natural result OF
| special study, special facilities and spe-
| Cial gifts. Inc natural result pI y ttiIS
| spent in the treatment of one class of
diseases. And these years of observation
and study have borne as their fruit Din
parO the "Favorite Prescription" In
the majority of cases the cause of dis
ease is the same, though symptoms vary.
! DR. Pierce goes to the cause. His Favor
lite Prescription" from its first dose be-
gins the work of recuperating the system
drained by waste putting the body on a
| fighting footing with disease. Just as
| the walls of Jerusalem We're rebuilt by
| men with a sword in on hand and a
trowel in the other, so in building up the
body Dr. Pierces Favorite Prescription
| puts a weapon into the one hand to fight
| disease and into the other the materials
| with which to build up the depleted and
| debilitated system. For this reason
A CURE RARELY FAILS
| to result from the conscientious use OF
the "Favorite Prescription" Liberation
and Inflammation, Irregularities. displace