The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-15

no answer. He did not know how to
answer. He could 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 impa-
thence 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 suffer-
ing because Of her own weakness. lie
did not know that even now behind
closed fingers that hid her face the
| mother was weeping because Of her
own passionate Impotence with the
child she loved.
What makes mama 50 cross ?" 1t
is a pitiful question. In it the little
child puts his finger right on the most
| salient feature in the failure of mar
riage. IT is not the case of one woman
| but the case Of thousands. The result
is home unattractive to the husband
and the childrenS love for the mother
adulterated 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 Wifely pride
in her heart and a womanly 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. It
is the natural and necessary result of
her condition. The finest musician in
the world could get nothing but dis
cord out Of a harp whose every string
was strained to breaking. That's the
way it is with woman. She is literally
call unstrung." Her nervous system is
shattered. All the harmony of the
sweet girl nature is turned to discord.
It is a condition peculiar to her sex and
common to wifehOod. Perhaps this
condition began long ago in girlhOod
with irregularfty in one Of the impOr-
tant female functions followed maybe
it'll a disagreeable and debilitating
drain on the system. Perhaps it is the
Immediate consequence of the great
changes which take place with mar
riage. Behind such a nervous cOndt-
tion will be found Inflammation burn
ing like fire into the tender tissues,
liberation eating like poison into the
organs of generation. There will be lr-
regular periods, and the bearing-down
pains, associated with prolapsus, a dis
agreeable, unnatural and debilitating
dr. ain, sapping the life and strength of
the system. Some or all these are be-
hind that nervous condition so pain
full for the mother, so pitiful for the
family. We know that this Is 50 be-
cause the treatment Of thousands Of
women similarly afflicted has proven it
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 bene-
fitted. This is not a matter of mere
statement. 1t is q matter of record
and a matter Of evidence. half a
million of women could be put into
the witness box to testify that they
have been cured Of Irregularities I'LL
ceratiors. inf1ammatiols, and dis3 gree
able drains on the system, by the use
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The larger part of this vast army Of
women are in evidence over their own
signatures reporting their former suf-
ferings and their permanent cure by
the "Favorlte Prescription" We can
only offer here few such letters.
Mrs. Cordelia Henson, of Cotton,
Boyd Co., KY. writes: I'm October,
1883, 1 gave birth to a baby and the
treatment I received a the hands Of the
midwife left me with falling Of the
uterus. 1 had no health to speak Of for
three years. 1 had another baby which
was the third child. My health began
to fail and l had three miscarria ges, so
| found myself completely worn out.
had so many pains and aches my life
was a burden 30 me and also to all the
family, for I was nervous and cross and
could not sleep. Just after my last
miscarriage lin 1S96) I was taken with
a severe pain in left side. Had four
doctors come to See me, but at last 1
found I was slowly dying. The doctors
said I had liver, lung and uterine trou-
BILE. I was in bed for months and when
I did get up I was a sight to behold
I looked like a corpse walking about.
I commenced to take Dr.. Pierce's Gold
Ell Medical Discovery, Favorite pre-
scription' and Pellets and I was
soon Well woman. have suffered all
a woman could suffer at my monthly
period until since I began the use Of
DR.. Pierce's medicines, but now 1 can
say I have no pain. The dark circles
around my eyes are going away, and
feel better in every way. My cheeks
are red and my face is white, but be-
fore it was as yellow as saffron"
Your medicines have done wonders
for me- writes Mrs. James w. Black
er, of 629 Catherine ST., Syracuse. N. Y.
For years my health was very poor;
had four miscarrlages, but since TAX