The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-11-02
A YOUNG GIRL

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A YOUNG GIRL
"Stnnding with reluctant feet
Where wonanhood and girlhood meet"
In the first critical period of her life she
begins to experience suffering which she
necessarily connects with the organs Of sex.
What it is she does not know. Why it is
she does not understand. She needs i1iedi-
cal advice. But she shrinks from it. Her
modesty Is up in arms at the thought of
questions 10 be asked, OF examinations to
be submitted to. both alike repugnant to
delicacy. So she suffers in silence. The
strain on the delicate machinery of her
organism becomes more severe. Painful
Irregularities become yet more painful.
And SO. silently, she treads the painful
path to confirmed invalidism. Her crown
Of modesty becomes a crown of thorns.
S.:e :ees :!:e S!c-;ns lamp light of cheer
full homes. She hears the cooling of the
happy babe, the prattlc of joyous children.
and she fears that nil that life of home and
love is not for her.
Or take the other typical case of the
woman who has entered on the cares and
DUTIES OF wIFEHoOD.
She has always been healthy and happy.
But now change comes. Her eye loses
lis brightness. Her step loses its spring.
The color fades from her cheek. Ere
Qucntly she is compelled to lie down and
rest. She is i'll constant pain. She looks
dreadingly down the calendar toward the
hour when the burden of motherhood will
be laid upon her. She, too, needs help
But she too suffers silently, because she
cannot speak and open the door to such
questions or such examinations as her
fering is, as has been said, unnecessary,
because to match modesty of speech there
is inodesty of hearing.
There IS one physician who has fully met
the needs of modest women by offering
absolute confidence in hearing absolute
confidence in consultation-combin with
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which he has met woman's peculiar needs
has made DR.. r. v. Pierce {chief consult
Surgical Institute, of Buffalo, N. ", the
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Of feminine weakness, feminine pecul-
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