Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-21
NOMANS EXPERIENCE.
Margaret =. Briggs, a Well known
Newspaper Woman.
Recounts Her Experience While Visit
ing a Noted Woman.
OF INTEREST TO ALL WOMEN.

always been a great feeling that Mrs.
Pinkham was a myth; we are so fam
liar with advertising methods we grow
to be skeptical and always take such
statements as are made in the Pinkham
advertisements. 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
| would investigate a little in order to
satisfy my curiosity, and / must say
| was surprised at what I found.
To begin with Ihad 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 build
ings and the conductor told me that
it was the Lydia E. Pinkham Labora-
tory, 1 should have been sure he had
made a mistake had it not been for a
small sign which is on one of the orig.
inal buildings.
Upon entering the Office l was re-
ceived by a very courteous lady and
was very much impressed by the fact
that all the occupants of the room were
women and although my sojourn in the
buildings covered something 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. | was satisfied that their
claims that this is strictly a woman's
institution were altogether truthful
After stating the purpose of my visit
was introduced to Mrs. Pinkham
who turned me oven to a head assist
ant with Instructions that 1 was to be
shown everything in and about the
laboratory, and particularly asked me
to visit the private letter department.
which L did. This is the department
in which is received hundreds OF thous-
iands of letters from ailing women, and
in which every letter. is opened, care
fully considered by competent persons
under Mrs. Pinkham's guidance and
carefully and accurately answered by
women only--so particular is Mrs.
Pinkham about having even a suspi-
cion of these letters going through a
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 of women. 1 was also shown by
positive evidence, which clearly salts.
fed me on the point that no letters are
published unless the writer's special
permission is first obtained.
To say that all this was a reyela-
ton is putting it mildly, and when I
was shown the great cabinet of file,
that contain thousands upon thous-
ands of letters, then, and only then.
did | 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
~ NS1iPSCS1lt hllcWlCuSt u uIC-G
tate, 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 Isl my faculties as a news
paper writer to assure them that what
| saw convinced me that Mrs. Pinkham
is more competent to advise sick
women than any other one person in
the United States. The volume of
information which she has colIabo-
rated during the last twenty years con-
tains a record of every kind Of female
illness that a human being could pos
sibly develop, and that nowhere in the
world could a woman get more accurate
and helpful advice in regard to her
illness than by writing to Mrs. P
ham, at Lynn, Mass. / have no In
terest in Mrs. Pinkham or the Pink
ham Medicine Co, but + have a streak
OF humanity in my makeup, and &
cannot rest without u~nburdening my
mind in regard to this matter, and
every time 1 see the following para
graph in a newspaper, / can hardly
keep from saying out loud while / ann
reading i~t-every word OF that is
true, and every ON who is ill and
does not take advantage Of Mrs. Pink
hams advice is slowly committing sui
eide. The paragraph referred to il
as follows:
Women suffering from any form
OF female week.-mrs. are invited to freely
communicate with Mrs. Pinkham at
Lynn, Mass, All letters are received.
opened, read and answered by women
only, thus has been established the