Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09
NERVOUS CHILDREN.
BY MARGARET l.. BRIees.
GALL RIGHTS

who does not remember that early scene in "Jane Eyre" where the
child, by nervousness grows mutnous and impertinent2 Or who has not the
unmanageabie? There is the little goldenhaired boy whose chief aim in life
seems TO be to please-yet there was a time when he, because of something he
had DONE wa told 10 to to his crib and lie there quietly. He wa no quiet and
the more his mother spoke to him, and the more he ws scolded and finally
punished, the less quiet he became Then there's another child, who, upon
back. And there's the child who gives the sauey answers-a bright little girl
who told her grandmother to shut up" much to that lady's amazenent and
the boy who told his aunt she ws not his boss when she asked him to do
something
Every me of these children had the best intentions in the world. and the
trouble in each case a that the child was nervous and didn't really know
what he a doing Take the gOldenhaired boy. When his mother made him
lie down he was overheated from play. The Don "a close and he couldn't
lie STILL His mother scOided him, whipped him; but that didn't make thu room
any cooler, and everything merely resulted in making him more nervous and
The child who strikes back usually does it through imitation. He is
cited, furnishing him. yet hardly knowing what she was doing. There is a
fascination about it ALL and before long the child finds himself initiating
does not know what he is doing.
The child who gives saucy answers is either being screamed Mt tbep
or is in the habit of being screamed at and does not realize how naughty it is
in him. His mother is nervous and he, having watched her all along and not
understanding that GOODNESS is n admirable quality, is nervous too.
This is a generation of nervous women; but Judging ron the nervoua
children growing up the next will be ever more So On every side
you hear the remark. HE is such a nervous child" "she is 81 nervous 1
don't know how she will yer get through her studies" and similar state
ments But the mothers who make these emarks do not stop think
hat the children are nervous because he mothers ire nervous Children
are the greatest imhators in the world. To them the mother is the ideal
and the example in all things, and as she is % will they be.
But" l hear many a mother exclaam,. how an l help being neryous9
L would gladly get over it Il L could, but 1 cannot do So"
1t is true that in your present conhton you cannot keep COOL
Nervousness is not a n affection to be done away with is 50 much mr-
chandse. 1t is a disease, or rather a symptom o a disease You are
organs have something wrong with them. In your young womanhood
you probably did not receive the attention you should v had. Your
monthly illness came IN with ain Even o o have discharge nj
should lot exist; you have a pain in your back that often makes you feel
as though you could not stand life another minute, and it is these troubles
that bring o. the nervousness
Since nervousness cal be traced to a definite cause, therefore, it is the
duty of every woman tO overcome it For thirty years women who are
nervous have been cured by Lydia E. Pfnkhams Vegetable Compound.
1t is the best remedy known for nervous women, Dr. for those suffering
from any disorder OF the feminine organs This fact is proven again and
again by letters from thousands of women, who write to Mrs. Pnkham, at
Lynn. MasS, and thank her for the cure accomplished in them. Backache,
pain In The SIDES bearing down palms. headache nervousness. all re sure
indications of trouble in the feminine organs Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound cures them all Unnatural discharges ares stopped. the Inflammation
IS Overcome m the IN various var psHG organs restored to a normal condition With re-
newed health the. pains leave and the nervousness is gone.