The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27
THE SEA ;,
OF Life.
The Dangerous Rocks.

On the sea of life are left many
wrecks. In the majority of cases
these failures are due to the excessive
use of alcohol One of the most prolific
causes of acquiring the alcohol habit in
these days is frequent use of alcoholic
compounds advertised as tonics for the
cure OF everything. Undoubtedly there
is some virtue in the drugs entering into
these compounds, but the good such
drugs may do the system is counteracted
by the i'll effects of the alcohol. Many
times the persons taking these patent
medicines feel much improved for little
time through the stimulating effects of
the alcohol In the medicine, but there
Is apt to be reaction in which the per-
son is much depressed and in low spirits
finally the habitua: user of such a
remedy will become dependent upon its
false strength for courage to go through
her daily duties. The State of Kansas
not long ago exposed the practice of
many people buying these alcoholic COM
pounds as "a tippien and will require
manufacturers and dealers in said med
Enes to observe the same rules and laws
ls do the distillers of WHISKY = and
the remedies will be prohibited from
general sale.
On the sea of life a woman feels cast
sdrih when she suffers untold pain. She
feels as though man was privileged to en-
10y life, while woman was meant for suf-
tering. 1t was not intended SO however.
God meant women to be healthy and not
bo suffer at any period. Corsets, tight
Shoes, bad circulation, catching cold,
thin blood and other attendants of pres
emit life have brought about an i'll con-
dition of affairs.
Treatment of the nervous system and
the womanly organism by alcoholic COM
pounds has always been, in the opinion
Of Dr.. R v. Pierce, who is founder and
chief medical director of the Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo,
N. Y, a very bad practice. When he
set about to find the right medicine for
the treatment of wonan's peculiar dis
ease, he hit on combination of natures
most valuable health-giving agents, a
combination Of roots, herbs and barks,
In solution which did not contain a
particle of alcohol. 1t is an easy expert
fnent for any one to test medicine for
alcohol, as a simple distilling of the
liquid will b7D1e a0hekhey alcohol is con-
tanned in it or not. DR.. Pierce does not
claim for his uFavorite Prescription
that it will cure all diseases, or that it
will cure men. It is woman's rnedi-
cine only, and in woman's diseases it
has been found effective in thousands of
cases. The uFavorite Prescription !"
stands alone, as the one and only remedy
for those distressingly common forms OF
weakness, possessed of such positively
specific curative properties as to warrant
Its makers, the Worlds Dispensary Med
ical Association, in binding themselves to
pay the sum of $500 in legal money of the
United States in any case OF the above
diseases in which, after fair and rea-
eouable trial of the treatment, it fails to
cure. No other medicine for the cure of
womau's peculiar ailments is backed by
such remarkable guarantee: No other
medicine for woman's ills is possessed OF
the unparalleled curative properties that
would warrant its manufactures In max
ing such an offer; no other remedy has
such record of cures on which to base
such remarkable offer.
Miss Emma Weller, Secretary OF the
Young Peoples Christian Association, at
1873 Madison Avenue, New York City,
writes: cYour Favorite Prescription
Is boon to sick and tired women, for it
curcs them when other medicine fail.
/ know whereof speak, for have had
experience With it. For fourteen months
Z bad constant headaches; seemed too
weak to perform my daily duties, and
sxhen the dxy was over ! WIS too tired to
aleep we'll. I suffered from nervousness
and Indigestion, and everything I ate
saisassd ma, poctQsrd With differeut