Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-02-26
A W0MAN'S EXPERIENCE.
Margaret L. Briggs, a WelI-Known Newspaper Woman Accounts Her Experience While Visiting a
 Noted Woman.

It was my privilege the other day to call upon the world famous Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass. I must con- fess that among all newspaper wo- men there has always been a great feeling that Mrs. Pinkham was a myth; we are so familiar with adver- Using methods we grow to be skepti- cal and always take such statements, as well as all other advertising, with the proverbial "grain of salt" but, as before stated, being near the city of Lynn, Mass, I thought I would in- vestigate little in order to satisfy my curiosity, and I must say was surprised at what I found.
 To begin with I had no idea that the Lydia E. Pinkham establishment was anything like the immense size that it Is, and when the street car stopped in front of a great collection of buildings and the conductor told me it was the Lydia E. Pinkham La boratory, should have been sure he had made mistake had it not been for a small sign which is on one of the original buildings.
 Upon entering the office I was re- ceived by very courteous lady and was very much impressed by the fact that all the occupants of the room were women and although my so- journ in the buildings covered some thing more than an hour visiting the entire place and private office, I saw nothing but women, and was also pleased to learn that no man ever had access to these rooms. I was satis- fled that their claims that this is strictly a woman's institution were al- together truthful.
 After stating the purpose of my visit 1 was introduced to Mrs. Pink ham who turned me over to a head assistant with instructions that I was to be shown everything in and about the laboratory, and particularly asked me to visit the private letter depart ment," which I did. This is the de- partment in which is received hun dreds of thousands of letters from ailing women, in which every letter is opened, carefully considered by competent persons under Mrs. Pinkham's guidance and carefully and accurately answered by women only-so particular is Mrs. Pinkham salN mt knN Nrn1rNr rNf these letters going through busi- ness office where men are allowed to frequent that she will not allow typewriter to be used and every letter that goes out of this office is written by hand by women. 1 was also shown positive evidence, which clear ly satisfied me on the point that no letters are published unless the writer's special permission is first ob- tained.
 To say that all this was a revela- ton is putting it mildly, and when I was shown the great cabinet of files that contains thousands upon thou sands of letters, then, and only then, did I begin to realize the magnitude of Mrs. Pinkham's work. Just think of it, every one of these letters had been answered as carefully as the most competent knowledge could die tate, and not one cent has ever been charged for advice. I saw where more than one million such letters were filed, and I began to feel that this one woman was doing more good among the sick women of America than any combination of men and women that ever heard of. I came away from Mrs. Pinkham's labora tory feeling that it was my duty to- wards all women to use my facilities as a newspaper writer to assure them that what 1 saw convinced me that Mrs. Pinkham is more competent to advise a sick woman than any other one person in the United States Margaret L. Briggs.