Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-04

ly marks the character of the unfor
tunate wife. She neglects herself and
loses her richness and fairness. Her
husband become a siOven. Both are
bitter of speech. The meanneSs of
their living grows upon them and
makes them mean, and when the debt
is finally paid it finds the still young
woman, old in looks and in her way
of life.
About this time the old-time school
friend return to Paris and calls are
exchanged The healthy, radiant young
matron just home again, can hardly
recognize in her friend the sparkling
young woman to whom she lent the
necklace.
What have you been doing with
YOURSELF" she cries. You look fad
ed, Old, WORKOUT, as if life had held
the cup of misery increasingly to your
lips"
And then the old-young woman tells
the story of the loss of the necklace,
the substituted jewels and the long
years of sacrifice and suffering endur-
ed in order to pay the debt.
What" cries her friend, you have
done all that! Why did you not come
to me and tell me? 1 could have saved
you all these years of useless suffering.
did not lend you the real gem, but a
paste imitation"
Fancy the feelings of the unhappy
woman who learns that she has suffer-
ed needlessly. That all the pleasures
and pursuits she had been shut out
from might have been hers; that her
face might yet have been fair and her
form young if she had only not kept
silence at that time of crisis.
a Woman's Wasted Life.
This was how one Woman'S life was
wasted in needless sacrifice and suf-
fering. There are thousands and tens
Of thousands of other women who lead
a life of suffering more pitiable and
even more unnecessary. There are
women to whom each recurring month
brings a time of torment; women
whose vitality is oozing away because
Of unchecked drains upon the womanly
strength; women who have borne chill
dren at such a penalty of pain that life
has scarcely a pleasure left for them;
women, again, who know the burning
torment OF inflammation and the
gnawing agony OF liberation, until the
misery seems past bearing
And all this suffering is needless in
ninety-eight cases out of every hun
dred. And in the two exceptional
cases the conditions can be greatly
helped and the suffering alieviated.
Ninety-eight suffering women in ev-
cry hundred can be cured. That is a
very large statement. 1t needs sup
port by facts and figures. 1t needs
verifying. And, fortunately, nothing
Is easier than such verifcation. In the
past thirty years and over, DR.. r. v.
Pierce, chief consulting physician to
the Inyalids' Hotel and Surgical Insti-
tute, Buffalo, n. Y, assisted by his
staff of nearly a score of specialists,
mas treated and cured more than half
million women, and the record Of
these cures show that only in two
eases out of every hundred was there
l failure to make a perfect and perma-
nent cure. Even in these cases there
was help and alienation of suffering,
gratefully acknowledged by women
who were glad to accept even a modi-
fed martyrdom. The scope and char
acter of the cures can be judged by
the statements of some of the
Women Who Have Been Cured.
Il was a great sufferer for six years
and doctored all the time with a num-
Der of different physicians, but did not
receive any benefit" writes Mrs.
George Sogden, Gal Bonda street, Sag
inaw, (South) Mich. "One day as /
was reading paper saw your adver-
tisement and although I had given up
all. hope of ever getting better, thought
I would write to you. When / receiv-
ed your letter, telling me what to do,