The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-01-19
WHO SHE WAS
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. PINKflAM
And True Story of How the Vegetable Compound
Had It's Birth and How the "Panic of '73'' Caused
it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores.

restore the family fortune. They
argued that the medicine which was
so good for their woman friends and
neighbors was equally good for the
women of the whole world.
The Pinkhams had no money, and
little credit. Their first laboratory
was the kitchen, where roots and
herbs were STEPPED on the stove,
gradually filing q gross of bottles.
Then came the question of selling
| it, for always before they had given
| it away freely. They hired q job
printer to run of some pamphlets
setting forth the merits of the medi-
cine, now called Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, and these were
distributed by the Pinkham sons in
Boston, New York. and Brooklyn.
The wonderful curative properties OF
the medicine were, to q great extent,
self-advertising, for whoever used it
Recommended it to others, and the de-
mand gradually increased.
In 1877, by combined efforts the fam
lily had saved enough money to COM
mence newspaper advertising and from
that time the growth and success OF
the enterprise were assured, until to-
day Lydia E. Pinkham and her Vege.
table Compound have become house.
hold words everywhere, and many
tons of roots and herbs are used annu-
ally inrits manufacture.
Lydia e. Pinkham herself did not
live to see the great success OF this
work. She passed to her reward years
ago, but not till she had provided
means for continuing her work as
effectively as she could have done 1t
herself.
During her long and eventful expe-
rience she was ever methodical in her
work and she was always careful topre-
serve a record of every case that came to
her attention. The case of every sick
woman who applied to her for advice
land there were thousands-received
careful study. and the details, includ
ing symptoms, treatment and results
were recorded for future reference, and
to-day these records, together will
hundreds of thousands.made since. arr
available to sick women the worl(
, over, and represent . vast collabora
: ton of information regarding thu
treatment of woman's ills, which TO
authenticity and accuracy can hardl.
be equaled in any library in tn
world.
With Lydia e. Pinkham worked he
daughter : in law. the present Mr.
Pinkham. She was carefully instructe
q in all her hard-won knowledge, an
! for years she assisted her in her vas
: correspondence.
To her hands naturally fell tn
1 direction of the work when its origins
a tor passed away. For nearly twenty
. Eve years abe has continued it, an
nothing in the work shows when tn
first Lydia e. Pinkham dropped he
: pen, and the present Mrs. Pinkhau
now the mother of q large family, too
it mp. With women assistants, some 9
K capable as herself, ..a- present Mr.!
o Pinkham continues this great work, AN
s probably from the Office of no othe
s person have SO many women been az
vised how to regain health. Sick We
men, this advice is 'Yours for Health
; freely given if you only write to as
g for it.
Such is the history of Lydia E. Pinl
9 hams Vegetable Compound mad
from simple roots and herbs the on
great medicine for women's ailment,
:, and the fitting monument to the nobl
o woman whose name it bears.