St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-03-12
A VOMAN'S EXPERIENCE
Margaret L. Briggs, a Well
Known Newspaper Woman
Reoounts Her Experience While
Visiting a Noted Woman,
Of Interest to all Women.
From the Boston Herald. !

From the Boston Herald.1
1t was my privilege recently to call
upon the world famous Mrs. Pinkham at
Lynn, Mass. l must confess that among
| all newspaper women there has always
been a great feeling that Mrs. Pinkham
was a myth; we are so familiar with
advertising methods we grow to eskep.
| tlcal and always take such statements as
are made in the Pinkham advertisements,
with the proverbtal grain of salt" but
as before stated, being near the city of
Lynn, Mass, l thought | would inves
tigate little in order tosatisfy my curios-
ity, and | must say | was surprised at
what found.
To begin with 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 great collection of buildings and the
conductor told me that it was the Lydia
E. Plnkham Laboratory, | should have
been sure he had made a mistake had it
not been for a small sign which is on one
OF the original buildings.
Upon entering the office | was received
by very courteous lady and was much
impressed by the fact that all the oCcu-
pants OF the room were women, and al
though my soJOurn in the buildings cover
ed something more than an hour visiting
the entire place and private office, | saw
nothing bnt women, and was also pleas
ed to learn that no man ever had access
to these rooms. l was satisfied that
their claims that this is strictly a
womans institution were altogether
truthful.
After stating the purpose of my visit l
was introduced to Mrs. Pinkham who
turned me over to a head assistant with
| instructions that | was to be shown
everything in and about the laboratory,
and particularly asked me to visit the
private letter department. which | did.
This the department in which is received
! hundreds of thousands of letters from
alIing women, and in which every letter
is opened, carefully considered by compe-
tent persons under Mrs. Pinkham's guild.
ance and carefully and accurately answer
ed by women only so particular is Mrs
Plnkham about having even suspicion
of these letters going through business
office where men are allowed to frequent
that she will not allow a typewriter to
be used and every letter that goes out of
this office is written by hand by women.
| was also shown positive evidence,
which clearly satisfied ME on the point
that no letters are published unless the
writer's special permission is first obtain
ed.
To say that all this was a revelation
is putting it mildly, and when | was
shown the great cabinet of files that con-
tain thousands upon thousands of letters,
then, and only then, did begin to realize
the magnitude OF Mrs. Pinkha ms work.
Just think of it, every one OF these letters
had been answered as carefully as the
most competent kno Wedge could dictate,
and not one cent has ever been charged
for advice, saw where more than one
million such letters were filed, and 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. came
away from Mrs. Pinkham's Laboratory
feeling that it was my duty to all women
to use my facilities as newspaper writer
to assure them what | saw convinced me
that Mrs. Pinkham is more competent
to advise sick women than any other one
person in the United States. The vol
ume OF information which she has col
Elaborated during the last twenty years
contains a record of every kind of female
illness that human being could possibly
develop, and that nowhere in the world
could woman get more accurate &C.
curate and helpful advice in regard to
her illness than by writing to Mrs. Pink.
ham, at Lynn, Mass. | have no interest
in Mrs. Pinkham or the Pinkham Medi-
cine Co., but have a streak OF humanity
IN my makeup, and cannot rest with.
out unburdening my mind in regard to
this matter, and every time see the fol-
lowing paragraph in a newspaper, can
hardly keep from saying out loud while
am reading it,-"every word of that is
true, and every woman who is i'll and
does not take advantage of Mrs. Pink.
hams advice is slowly committing sui
eide. The paragraph referred to is as
follows:
Women suffering from any form of fe-
male weakness are invited to freely COM
municate with Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn,
Mass. All letters are received opened,
iN'I ''INt sthSNSINb ny "OllSU OILY, lHuS
has been established the eternal conf |
derce between Mrs. Pinkbam and the
women of America which has never been
broken and has induced more than 1OO,- !
900 sufferers to write her for advice dur
ing the last four months. Out of the
vast volume of experience which she has
to draw from, it is more than possible |
that she has gained the very knowledge |
that will help your case. She asks moth
ing in return except your goodwill, and
her advice has relieved thousands. !
Surely any woman, rich or poor, is very
foolish ii she does not take advantage Of |
this generous offer of assistance. y Mar
garet L, Briggs.
1t Would Count for More.
Mr. Roosevelt informed the poar on,