The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-05-03

| sort of seriousness that / spoke of,
! John dear"
AS he bent his face to hers, she raised
hers to meet it and laid her little right
hand on his eyes and kept it there.
DO you remember. John, the day we
were married of pas speaking of the
| ships that might be sailing to us from
| unknown seas?"
Perfectly, my darling"
II think-among them-there is a
ship upon the ocean-bringing-to you
and me--a little baby John"
In her heart every young mother
chants.
THE MAGNIFCAT OF MARY.
when it is borne on her that she is
shadowed by that mighty mystery of
| motherhood. There is no other moment
so momentous in a woman's life, as
this. A new look grows upon her face,
a new dignity clothes her She turns
her face back to the mothers of the
world.
who to her cross and passion bring
Their fellowship of suffering"
But in her very hour Of uplifting
perhaps there falls upon her the sha-
dow of coming suffering. and she
shrinks rom it, anticipating the bur-
den almost too great for her strength
For 1t Is a fact that the child which
should be a blessing seems, sometimes,
curse There is no strength to nurse
or nourish the little one, who tugs vain
ly at the dry fountain of the breast
with eager thirsty lips.
Why is it?
Why must women pay such a painful
price for motherhood? 1t seems un-
reasonable and unnatural that such a
price should be exacted for the simple
fulflllment of the law of being. For
Nature echoes and enforces the divine
command increase and multiply"
It is unreasonable and unnatural
that woman alone should%e singled out
for such a penalty. Every living thing
brings forth fruit after his kind" nat
urally, regularly, and without strain
or struggle as compared with the
strain and struggle of human mother
hood. The first thing that every wo-
man needs to be taught is that the
larger part Of
WOMAN'S SUFFERING IS UN-
NATURAL
anu unnecessary. nat apart lIOUl lle
momentary birth pang, maternity
should be JOY unalloyed II it Is not
so ii is because of
- the social laws
That err from honest Natures rule"
Because in succeeding generations
women have sacrificed their vital
forces to the idol, Custom, and when
they are confronted with maternity are
unequal to its demands. 1t would seem
apparent that all this could be changed;
that children could be borne with little
pain and nursed with boundless pleas
ure II the lost vital power could be re-
stored to women. All woman needs is
strength and If she can obtain that,
the ordeal of maternity loses all it's ter
rors. Tens OF thousands of women
have found this strength in the use Of
DR.. Pierce's Fayorite Prescription. To
give strength and vigor to the delicate
womanly organs is the mission of this
medicine. 1t does this by a twofold
process. First, it cures the debilitat-
Ing drains, alterations, inflammations
and female weakness which sap wo-
mans strength. Next, 1t imparts a Wig
orous vitality 10 the delicate organs,
places them in a condition Of natural
health, so that all their functions being
performed naturally and healthfully,
are performed in Natures way with the
least expenditure of strength, the least
strain, the least friction.
WOMEN NEVER CEASE WONDER
ING
at the results which follow the use Of
"Favorite Prescription" so various are
they and often so unexpected. Here's
a line from letter from Mrs. Mary T..
Lewis, of Tanner, Gilmer Co, w. Va.
For fifteen years / suffered untold
misery. When l commenced taking
DR. Pierce's medicines | had given up
all hope of ever getting we'll | weighed
then, ninety pounds, and now weigh
one hundred and forty. After being