An Interrupted Wedding, or Marion Marlowe as Maid of Honor — page 35: what you’re looking at

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32—~COi« ! — Church Lights and Social Leaders, Every community, however small, has its group of energetic women, who lead and light the way in every local enterprise. If it is char- ity, a bazaar, a church fair, or any other benevo- y jent undertaking, they work day and night to first chair she comes to. i women are inthe great majority. make it a success. They are not the women who neglect their homes to serve the public. They simply do double service. Many a hus- band knows what itis to bring his wife home from a fair or bazaar near the hour of midnight and see her drop, in sheer exhaustion, into the While the lights were bright and the talk and laughter were all about her, she didn’t realize her own weariness. But once at home, exhaustion overcame her. woman were thoroughly robust, without ache YY LGG If a; like to be made Strong again. There is nota sick woman who would not like to be made well, And there is not the least reason, in ninety-eight cases out of every hundred why women should continue to be weak and sick. The first step to the re-establishment of the general health is to establish the local womanly heaith. ‘I feel that it is only my duty to send you a statement Of my case,” writes Mrs. Mary E, Wilcox, of Emo (Rainy River), Algoma Co., Ont. ‘TI suffered untold misery for many years until I commenced taking Dr. Pierce's good medicine and used the local treatment as ad- vised. I took two bottles of ‘Favorite Prescrip- tion’ and two of ‘Golden Medical Discovery,’ I also sent for one box of your ‘Antiseptic and Healing Suppositories.’ I have only used two and that was two months ago. Have not had to use any since, but I shall keep them in the house, I would advise every woman who suffers from ulceration of the uterus and piles to use Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It is the best medicine in the world. Also write to Dr. Pierce for his advice. I have felt better in the past seven months than I have for years. Every month I used to have to go to bed and have hot poultices and take lauda- num to ease the pain. I don’t go to bed now nor do I take laudanum. Every spring I used to be troubled with piles, but I did not have any trouble of that kind this spring. I keep Dr. Pierce’s Compound Extract of Smart- Uy, /,, Weed in the house. It isa wonderful medi- Uf Yf ~~. eine.’ d /|\ THE WAY OF ESCAPE or pain, she could not keep this work up with- out undermininy her health. What shall be said then of those women, who are not strony, who suffer from headache, bickache, bearing-down pains, and other consequences of a diseased condition of the womanly organism? And these There are few women who are free from diseases peculiar to their sex. BURNING THE CANDLE AT BOTH ENDS, That expressive saying not only suggests the most rapid form of waste but also the most | foolish. When a woman overtaxes her strength fin any cause, whether in the enjoyment of so- cial pleasures, or in the service of church or charity, she is rapidly hastening to the end of her public activity. . The proof of this is found right at home, Young matrons who are not dancing any more, chureh workers who are no more active ; these have not stepped aside becatise of loss of inter- est, but because of lack of strength, There is nota weak woman who would not from the diseases which afflict women, is marked by the footsteps of hundreds of thou- sands of women who have been raised to strength from weakness and from sickness to health, by the use of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It establishes perfect regular- ity, dries the drains which weaken women, heals inflammation and ulceration and cures female weakness. 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