The times., 1898-10-14

only wonder that in a few years the gay
and sprightly girl he had married had
lost all her spirits, had faded in face and
Fallen off 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 his
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 impatience with
the child she loved.
"What makes mama so CROSSE 1t is
pitiful question. In 1t the little child
puts his finger right on the most salient
feature of the failure of marriage. 1t s
not the case of one woman, but the case
of thousands. The result is home I'M
attractive to the husband. and the chill
dren's love for the mother aduiterated
with fear. The husband tired of tears
and scolding, drifts to 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 wtfely pride in her heart and woman
ly prayer On her lips-"God bless our
instead Of blessed.
Poor womanI She IS not to blame for
her nervousness and her tears. 1t is the
natural and necessary result of her con-
Gition. 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 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 a condition pc
culiar to her sex and common to wife
hood Perhaps this condition began long
ago In girlhood with irregularity in one
of the important female functions. fol-
lowed maybe with a disagreeable and de-
bilitating drain on the system. Perhaps
1t is the immediate consequence of the
great changes which take place with
marriage. Behind such a 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. a 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
ful for the family. We know that this is
80 because the treatment of thousands of
women similarly afflicted has proven Il to
be So We know just as surely that this
condition is durable, 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 a matter Of mere statement 1t is a
matter of record and a matter of evil
dence. A half a million of women oould
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 Favorite 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
few such letters.
Mrs Cordeia Henson, of Cotton. Boyd
County, Ky, writes: In October 1883. l
gave birth to a baby and the treatment L
received at the hands of the midwife left
me with falling OF the uterus. l had no
health to speak of for three years. i had
another baby, which was the third child.
My health began to fail and / had three
miscarriages, so / found myself complete
ly worn out j had so many pains and
acneS my lie was u burden 10 me, ana
also to all the family. for l was nervous
and cross and could not sleep. Just after
my last miscarriage lin 1885 1 was taken
with a severe pain in left side. Had four
doctors come to see me, but at last l
found 1 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 sight to behold looked
like corpse walking about. COM
menced to take DR.. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery. 'Fayorite Prescription
and Pellets and 1 was soon a well
woman. i have suffered all woman
could suffer at my monthly period until
since 1 began the use of DR.. Pierces med
icines. but now ] can say 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 1t was as yellow as saffron"
''Your medicines have done wonders
for me-" writes Mrs. James W. Blacker,
of 62s Catharine Street, Syracuse, n. Y.
For years my health was very poor;
had four miscarriages; but since taking
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery