The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1900-01-10
A YOUNG GIRL
Standing with reluctant feet
Where Womanhood and girlhood met

"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 it is she does not know. Why 1t is
she does not understand. She needs med1-
cal advice. But she shrinks from 1t. Her
ruodesty is up in arms at the thought OF
questions to be asked, of examinations to
be submitted to, both alike repugnant to
delicacv. 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 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 and
love is not for her.
Or take the other typical case of the
woman who has entered on the cares ana
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
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 SUIT
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
the needs of modest women by Offering
absolute confidence in hearing = absolute
confidence in combined with
absolute competence in treatment. His
remarkable discoveries and the way IN
which he has met woman's peculiar needs
has made DR.. R. V. Pierce tchief consult
ing physician to the Invalids Hotel and
Surgical Institute, of Buffalo, N. W, the
friend and conhdant 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 a
| local practitioner has experimental and
| failed with ten cases DR.. Pierce's discover
| les and advice have gone staight to the
| root and cured ten thousand. Every varia-
ton of rnptomatology is known to tins
| 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 get ii
ninefy-seven times out Of every hmndred
Those who turn to him experience at once,
] instead of skirmishing with symptoms,
/ banishing of suffering. His :. Favorite
Prescription y not only removes all pain
| full female irregularities but acts directly
on the delicate organs that suffer in the
strain and stress connected with mother
hood. 1t supplies vital force and energy.
DR.. Pierce is at all times ready to give
advice, free Of charge, to those who employ
his remedies. Address him as above.