The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-10-08
Are Women Healthier?

that are necessary for their own nap
piness and we'll being.
The lack of knowledge among women
of simple hygiene has furnished an OPP
nortunity for an enormous amount of
imposition. an opportunity OF whlch
many have with great alacrity awaited
themselves. The Viavi cult hold that
woman should know more about her
self. They are opposing the impositlons
which many INSCRIPTIONS practitioners
claiming to be that which they are not
inhict upon women, and they are stay
ing to a remarkable degree the riot of
the surgeons knife.
In the first place, it should be I'M
derstood that ill health nearly always
is the specific result of general condi-
tons. We feel a pain in the head, Tor
instance and We are apt to conclude at
once that the cause of that pain is To-
cal. that it is the result of something
wrong within the skull, when as mat
ter of fact the pain may be the result
of an unhealthy condition of the stom-
ach. the liver the kidneys, or any other
of the organs of the body, brought
about by unhealthy habits or mode of
life. The pain makes itself manifest
in the brain because that is the center
Of the nervous system.
The next stage is pain in the region
of the affected organ itself. Unless
the conditions which caused the first
signal are removed. the unhealthy state
continues, increasing until it begins to
affect organs and tissue, producing act
ual physical changes, which, becoming
chronic, are called disease. The condi-
ton is then more serious, and cannot
be removed always by altering the
conditions that brought the disease
into existence. The unhealthy state is
both local and general and in the
process of cure this fact should be re-
cogniZed. The first step is to restore
with the right food the Weakened con-
dition of the body.
The body absorbs food in two ways,
through the mouth and stomach, i'm
portant steps in the alimentary canal
and through the pores as we'll. The next
step is local application of harmless
but effective material to the local
conditions which are the result of dis
ease
In advocating this common sense
method for the restoration of health
am prOmulgating the plan which from
my own investigation | have observed
has proven successful in thousands
and probably thousands and thousands
of cases by the adoption of the Viavi
system for women. l was surprised AT
first by the evidence of the success OF
this idea, for l saw that women who
had been afflicted for years, who had
suffered oceans of pain. who had paid
out thousands of dollars in doctors
bills, who had been deprived of the
joys, privileges, and benefits of life
saw these women enthusiastic members
of the Viavi organization; and, as was
quite natural under the circumstances
the most earnest advocates of the sys-
tenn. On further investigation and at
ter attending lectures at the New York
office I began to understand the sys-
tenn more thoroughly, and soon be-
came a convert myself.
These lectures, l may say, are open
to any woman, and information can be
obtained about them by writing to the
Viavi offices in any of the large cities
The talks are given, of course by those
who have full and complete knOwl-
edge of the subject. and they are frank
and tremendously instructive. The sub
stance of the lectures will be giver
to you, no doubt. if you requst it.
The effects of the Niavi movement
are becoming so widespread that | an
sure that before long American women
as a whole will be largely affected by
1t, and We will come to be distinguish
ed rs 4 new nation of healthy women
For the principles of this new organi-
Zation are not emily effective in curing