The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-05-12

wards woman has undergone a great
change. Woman has taken her place as
the co equal of man. Her new position is
due not only to her mental advancement,
but also to physical Improvement. Read
the novels of century and half ago and
you find the heroine always described as
delicate, fragile creature, who tainted and
had her stays cuts at every possible op-
portunity and was always having her hands
slapped, water sprinkled in her face and
smelling salts applied to her nostrils A
woman of this description was hardly fitted
for co equality with man. Where there is
much smoke there must be some FIRE, and
undoubtedly there must be some truth in
the noveists' descriptions of these hero
ines of a century and half ago.
Woman is becoming stronger, healthier
and more self-reliant because she is learn
ing to know herself Most weakness,
fragility and i'll health in women is due to
weakness or disease of the distinctly feini-
nine organism Not only women, but their
husbands also are beginning to Conpre-
bend this fact. Nowadays when a well in
formed man finds that his wife is suffering
from nervousness and headaches, that she
is irritable, fretful and Respondent, and
complains of backachcs and pains and
dragging down sensations he realizes that
she is suffering from some ailment peculiar
to her sex. Ifhe loves his wife he will rot
scold and gruublc and get in temper
himself but will see that she promptly has
the advice of some specialist of fepute
The best and most widely known specialist
in cases of this description is DR.. X V.
Pierce, of Buffalo, n. Y. For thirty years
he has been chief consulting physician to
the Iuvalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,
at Buffalo, n. Y, and with the aid of
staff of nearly score of medical assistants,
he has prescribed for many thousands of
suffering women.
His wide experience in this class of
troubles led to his discovery of marvellous
medicine for women, known as Or. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription. II acts directly on
the delicate and important organs con-
cerned in wifehood and maternity. 1t
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healthy wifehood and almost painless ma
ternty. 1t completely and permanently
cures the special troubles that have aggra-
waited and broken down the whole system,
with the result that the general health is
| quickly recovered. 1t gives the tortured
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petent invalids into strong, healthy, happy
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and the honest ones will not urge you to
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of a little added profit.
Il commenced to take DR.. Pierces Favoriic
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tMrs) y II