Evening star., 1898-08-31

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VISITORS DAY AT ST PETERS HOSPITAL.
NEW YORK CITY
prizes thev may seek throughout the
length and breadth OF the great,
struggling, fighting. dazzling world
the thoughts and hopes OF truest
manhood forever 1urn back ID the
place where wife and children are
Here is the goal of all endeavor and
the center OF existence.
WHAT WIFE AND CHILDREN MEAN To EVERY
MAN.
Men of every class and condition
in life look to their wives and chill
dren as the unfailing source OF in
spiration and cheeriulness. \
wounded soldier, home from the
front, is hardly more dependent upon
this tender comfort and good cheer
than is the average man who works
all day at his desk, or in the shop, or
field.
A husband expects his wife to be
the brightener of his home; to light
en- his discouragements, smooth
away his wrinkles, and smile away his
frowns, just as much as the wounded
soldier returning from the field ex-
poets to be greeted with loving
caresses. Whether right or wrong
to expect so much attention and pet
ting, the average husband doees ex-
pect it and without it becomes a
disappointed man.
\ wIFE'S PROBLEM.
But how is a woman who is BUR-
dened with household work and
care, and with the constant draft
upon her strength that comes with
frequent motherhood, to fulfill her
whole wifely duty? How can the
ordinary woman struggling with the
ordinary conditions OF this work-a-
day world be the ideal housekeeper
wife and mother all at once?
This is the greatest problem with
which the women Of America have
to deal; and when the question has
to be worked out in the face OF con-
slant physical weakness and suffer
ing, no wonder so many thousand OF
women feel that the demands OF life
are greater than they can meet, and
heavier than they can possibly en-
dure. No wonder they live for
weeks and months plunged in the
depths OF wretchedness and despon-
dency.
A woman who suffers inwardlv
from some feminine weakness. or
disease. is in 4 certain sense almost
alone in her trouble; her husband
cannot hall appreciate her suffering,
no matter how knd-hearted he NAV
be. She hates to be complaining all
the time. Often she herself may not
realize exactly what the trouble is;
and ii the local doctor is called in,
he will not once in a dozen times
diagnose the trouble correctly.
DoDGING THE QUESTION.
oh, your liver needs little ton
lrg up, he will say; or your sto-
mach is out of kelter." Perhaps he
will call it heart trouble" or "ner-
vousness' and give the usual stereo-
typed treatment that is OF no more
avail than so much water; while all
the time the real trouble, the under
mining weakness in the organism
distinctly feminine, is draining and
torturing the victims life away I'M
checked.
Alter all the poor unhappy woman
Is almost glad that the doctor, in his
easy-going fashion, fails to suggest
where the actual trouble lies; for well
she knows that the next step would
be the detestable examinations and
local applications which modest wo-
men hold in such repugnance.
THE REAL ANSWER
1t is to countless thousands of wo
men in just this dire extremity oil sui
fering that the knowledge of DIR
Plerce's Favorite Prescription
remedy which cures these trouble:
scientifically, completely and in tn,
privacy OF ones home without resor
to these hated and mortifying meth
ods-has come like a message O
mercy from a better world.
Il was tired and sick all the time
says Mrs. o. S. Adams of Fargo
Cass Co., N. Oak. Il had femal,
weakness very badly; so | had to b,
in bed part of the time. | could no
do my housework; l had faintins