The Nome nugget., 1920-07-10
MRS. CHlS. PEDEn
 GAINS q POUNDS
WAS TWICE EXAMINED AND EACH TIME TOLD OPERATION WOULD
 eE HER ONLY HOPE

of Tanlac and have gained twenty seven pounds" was the truly remark able statmnet mads by Mrs. Chas. Peden. residing at $50 Mill St., Hunts- vile. Alabuma. Mrs. Peden is one of the best known and most highly re- spected women of that city where she has made her home for number of years.
 When I commenced taking the medicine" she continued, "I only weighed ninety eight (ss) pounds: now 1T weigh one hundred twenty five pounds and never felt better in my life. l For years I have suffered with bad form of stomach trouble. constipation and pains in my side and back At times the pains took the form of tor ture and I was twice examined and each time told that an operation would until only weighed ninety-eig pounds and was so weak could hardly ] get around.
 'I had no appetite scarcely at all, and what little I did eat would cause { gas to form in my stomach which gave me palpitation of the heart, sick head aches and q dizzy feeling about the i head. When these spells came on me, 1 would get awfully nervous. wor- 1 ried about myself until could rest ! and sleep but little.
 l "I had fallen off until l was almost skin and bones and my strength and energy were slowly leaving ma. had q dread of the future and could see nothing but the operating table and the knife. l had a perfect horror of an operation, but had made up my l mind that it was either liO or death and prepared to submit to 1t. had made all preparations for the oprec- l tion and called on my sister to tell her goodby. as I did not know whether I would live to see her again or not. My sister begged and pleaded with me l not to allow them to cut on me and told me to wait and try good tonic l for awhile. The next day as I re- tured from the consultation room I thought of what she said. and as had heard so much about Tanlac. decided to try it as a last resort. and stopped at the drug store and got bottle. 1 Of course. I had lost heart and had no faith in medicine, but to please my ] sister. I made up my mind to take 1t and oh. what happy day that was i for me!
 I never returned for the operation, but just kept taking Tanlac and my improvement has been so rapid that ! none of my clothes fit me. Right from the start I began to improve. The medicine seemed to take hold 1 right at once. It had a soothing ef- feet. and in a few days I felt no pain at all. I was so happy over my won- l derful improvement that sent for my neighbors to tell them how much bet ! tcI T lCit. bChS 6Ot ttAOthCA OVI- tie of Tanlac and have just finished my third and feel like have been made over again into a new woman.
 "As have said before. now weigh one hundred and twenty-five pounds and none of my clothes are big enough for me, and I will have to make them
 
 appetite and my husband says I am simply eating him out of house and home. I have even gone back to my ] coffee which I was told not to touch. Those horrible pains in my back and head have all disappeared and I sleep like q child. I am no longer nervous. and when get up in the mornings feel refreshed. cheerful and bright. am now able to attend to my house work again and feel as if had start ed life over. My husband is high ly delighted and my recovery is the talk of the neighborhood. do noth- ing but rejoice, all day long over the recovery of my health and praise Tan lac to everybody.
 T feel so grateful for my escape from the operating table and the knife that you may publish what have said: you may if you wish, tell other women suffering as I was to come to sec me and I will he glad to tell them about my case."
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