The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1900-01-13
A YOUNG GIRL
" Standing with reluctant feet
Where Womanhood and girlhood meet

A YOUNG GIRL
Standing with reluctant feet
Where womanhood 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 il is she does not know. Why II is
she does not understand. She needs medi-
cal advice But she shrinks from it. Her
modesty is up i'll arms at the thought OF
questions TO 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.
She sees the glowing lamp light of cheer
full homes. She hears the cooling OF the
happy babe, the prattle Of joyous children:
and she fears that all that life OF home ana
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
its brightness Her step loses its spring.
The color fades from her cheek. Ere
uuently she is compelled to lie down and
rest. She is in 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
modesty revolts at. And yet all this suf-
fering is, as has been said, unnecessary,
because to match modesty of speech there
is modesty of hearing.
There is one physician who has fully met
n. ttvr< for
absolute confidence in hearing absolute
confidence in neutrality-suspicious. with
absolute competence in treatment. His
remarkable discoveries and the way i'll
which he has met woman's peculiar needs
has made DR.. r. V. Pierce (chief consult
ing physician to the Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute, of Buffalo, N W. the
friend and confidant of tens of thousands
of modest women. In over thirty years
experience with female disorders of every
possible type, treating them to the number
Of hundreds of thousands, Dr. Pierce has
been brought into relation with every form
of feminine weakness, feminine pecul-
iarity, and feminine disease. Where
local practitioner has experimental and
failed with ten cases DIR. Pierce's discover
les and advice have gone staight TO the
| root and cured ten thousand. Every varia-
| ton of symptomatology is known to this
lifelong specialist. The presence of COM
| plications that confuse and battle the ordin-
ary practitioner are every day experiences
| and every day successes to him.
His medical discoveries and his conf
| dental, fatherly advice, are to-day the only
| harbors to which weak, hopeless, unfor-
| tunate woman can turn for help and-gef ii
ninefy-seyen times onf Of e5e,y hmndted
| Those who turn to him experience at once,
instead of skir1fishing with symptoms,
| banishing Of suffering. His : Favorite
| Prescription not only renoves~all pain
| full female irregularities but acts directly
| on the delicate organs that suffer III the
strain and stress connected with mother
hood. II supplies vital force and energy
DR.. Pierce is at all times ready to give
1 advice, free of charge, to those who employ
| his remedies Address him as above.