Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-30
DOROTHY GREY'S LETTER.
Her Observatfons OF Nervous Women
and a Practical Hint Which May
Prove HelDfu1.

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Prove Helpful.
/ have come to the conclusion that
women who are nervous deserve a
great deal more sympathy than they
get. Indeed if there is one person who
more than another deserves every
| body's pity, and everybody's help, it is
! the nervous woman. The woman |
! mean, who flies all to pieces dozen
times day over some trifle that really
doesn't matter, and She can't help
doing 1t any more than a person with
! the ague can help shaking. l know a
+, lot OF women who are nervous, and get
/ excited over small things. l have
| found them in every place I've been,
Washington, New York, New ORLEANS,
! San Francisco, st. Louis, Boston,
/ every place where I've made intimate
women friends. 1t isn't merely the
married women and the mothers that
are so easily excited and irritated, but
| its the girls, too.
Now, of course one can't observe
these things without their making an
! impression, so | began to make in
| quiry as to the causes and have found
| in every single case that the woman
was really sick, and needed treatment,
perhaps was getting treatment at the
| time. When you come to think about
! it, nervousness must be very wide
| spread among women, and these poor
souls who are really suffering get no.
body's sympathy because they are so
snappish.
| For my part, believe that nervous
ness in women is always a symptom
! of some female trouble, some little
! thing that began way back in girlhood,
and kept on developing, and aggrava-
ting the nerves. If a girl loses her
| temper, and says things that are spite
! full, it is customary to draw placid
sigh, and say, she'll get over that
when she's married and settled" Of
course she doesn't get over it. Ten
| chances to one she gets worse, and
! becomes the shrewish wife, and irrit-
/ able mother. What chance has mod
erately we'll disposed man to make such
a woman happy? If he 'humors'
her she grows more violent, and if he
/ gets scrappy, too, they lead cat and
| dog life NO, the young girl who says
| spiteful things is likely to become a
| chronic scold when she has children,
and be trial to her husband all his
life long. The mysterious part of this
! is that the woman after a while doesn t
| realize how frequently she exhibits
| temper, and says mean things. But
/ the whole thing is horrible pity,
| if one could stop long enough to think
it over seriously. l have done what
7 hon ~ n
I women, by advising them to take Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
| did this first at the urgent request of
| my mother, who is, by the way, quite
! the sweetest tempered woman in the
world, and the result surprised me a
| great deal. | had read and read the
| advertisements of Mrs. Pinkham' s
medicine, but l never really thought
| it could be all that they said it was
until | had seen its eeffct. | feel now
| that the dozen or more women who
have taken this medicine at my sug-
gestion, have proved its sterling worth
| beyond all possible question, and I
wish to say in all seriousness, and sol
| emnity, that if every nervous woman
would take Lydia E. Pinkham's Veget-
I able Compound, she wouldn't begin to
| have herself in control
/ There really is need of a movement
! to provide some way to help these ner-
vous women. They don't make the
| right kind of mothers, or wives, or sis
| tiers, and they shouldn't be expected
| TO, because they are, | am convinced,
/ really unable to control their nerves.
There is no more important thing for
American women than to understand
/ little about themselves, and to find
out what to do to make their lives
! effective. My observation has shown
me Enthusiastically that profound ig-
i norance about things feminine exists
among women; even the traditions
/ that are handed around are based on
some false premises. 1t really is no
wonder that women are sick so much,
and played out so early in life For
, the most part they are mismanaged
when young. and continue to misman-
| age themselves when they grow up.
! | would not have any woman think
! these words are meant to be harsh or
unkind. If they start some woman
! thinking, and induce her to protect
herself, | will be glad, for l am really
very much inearnest about 1t.
DOROTHY GREY.