Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-08
Housewife More a Victim of Con-
ditions Than Smart Set
Leader, Is Claim.
FAIR SEX LACKS NERVE
fastener Makes Remarkable State
ment About Women of Today
And OF tho Past.

Novel theories about modern social
| conditions and the cause for them
| we're advanced yesterday by the
| Cooper stomach man. who is max
| ing his headquarters at Smiths
| BUSY Corner" drug store, Main and
Second south streets. Cooper Is the
young man who has aroused such
storm of comment In Salt Lake City
by his extraordinary ideas about dis
ease and its causes. He claims that
80 per cent of all Ill health is caused
by stomach trouble and nothing else
and has undoubtedly converted thous-
ands of people to his beliefs during
the time that he has been here. He
said.
Modern social life is a tremend
Gus tax on the vitality of the nation.
The woman of that splendid physique
of our pioneer days who was the
mother OF the west Is fast disappear
ing from our recollection. The woman
OF today is an anemic, sickly. always
tired and exhausted type. She lacks
In life, nerve and healthy ambition
The reason for all this Is very simple.
The call Of social duty has imposed
on the woman of today. responsible
ties that take too much of her time
and sap her vitality. Now. II is n
very common thing to point to the
society woman as dreadful example
of what our modern times have lead
us into, but this Is not what 1 mean
at all
Il claim that the woman of moder-
ate means-the wife of the business
man. artisan. clerk or working man
has just as many social responsible
ties of the Kind that tell on her
health as the pampered woman of
fashion. The fact that she has house
work and other domestic duties to
perform tends to make her life the
harder.
Women come TO me every day
who are suffering from all kinds of
diseases they think, but in reality
they don't know what is the mat
ter, Headaches. scores of them
have nervous proStration. they suf-
breath, constipation, kidney and liver
trouble. aneinia and hundreds OF
other complaints. In nearly every
case their stomaclps are Impoverished
as a result of their mode of life They
cat too much. too irregularly and do
not take healthful outdoor exercise as
nature demands. The digestive or
gans arc stuffed UP. clogged and can't
work. The food lies heavy on the
stomach. sours, and--it's harsh to say.
but it's truc-it literally rots. Gases
form and poison is pumped into their
blood. All kinds OF diseases, of
course, are bound to follow.
My mculClne is notnlnE Dut q
stomach remedy. but IL will tone up
the digestive organs, cause proper as
similation OF food and in nine cases
out of ten, restore run down. half
sick, anemic person to the full bloom
of health in four to eight weeks.
am ready to meet the people of this
city face to face and prove my theor-
les TO them. Hundreds here have al
ready said that they have found my
ideas worked out successfully for their
cure" Among Cooper's callers yester-
day was:
Matthew Woodcock of Murray, re-
ceiving his mail on rural free deliy-
cry route No. 4. He said:
My wife suffered from catarrh of
the stomach with all symptoms for
ten or twelve years. She had a most
stubborn case of constipation which
caused her great agony and wrecked
her entire nervous system. l tried
many remedies for her without re-
lief until 1 secured a full course of
the Cooper treatment for her. Now
she has recovered her health, her
constipation has been entirely eradi-
Gated. and what L would hardly be-
lieved possible has taken place-she
is cured"