Household Cares

A Sick Woman's Devotion to Duty is a Heroism which a Well Person Cannot Understand.

How distressing to see a woman struggling with her daily round of household duties, when her back and head are aching, and every movement brings out a new pain.

One day the poor woman is wretched and utterly miserable; in a day or two she is better, and laughs at her fears, thinking there is nothing much the matter after all; but before night the deadly backache reappears, the limbs tremble, the lips twitch—it seems as though all the imps of Satan were clutching her vitals; she "goes to pieces" and is flat on her back.

No woman ought to arrive at this terrible state of misery, because these symptoms are a sure forerunner of womb troubles. She must remember that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is almost an infallible cure for all female ills, such as irregularity of periods, which cause weak stomach, sick headache, etc., displacements and inflammation of the womb, or any of the multitude of illnesses which beset the female organism. Read how Mrs. Frake wrote to Mrs. Pinkham when she was in great trouble. Her letter tells the result, and how a cure was effected by the use of

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.

READ THESE LETTERS FROM MRS. FRAKE.

"Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—I have read of your medicine making so many cures, and have been advised to write to you, but I feel that it is of no use. The doctor says that I have womb trouble, but he does not seem to help me a great deal. I have such a weakness across me most of the time—have backache, am very nervous, and am troubled with leucorrhœa. I am very weak, cannot walk any distance or stand long unless I ache all over. I would like to know it you think your medicine would do me any good."—Mrs. Samuel Frake, Prospect Plains, N.J.

"Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—I cannot thank you enough for what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me. When I first wrote to you I had suffered for years. The doctor said I had congestion of the womb, was troubled with my kidneys and bladder, my back ached dreadfully all the time, and I suffered with bearing-down feeling, could scarcely walk about to do my own housework. I stopped doctoring with the physician and took your medicine, and am now able to do my own work, have no more backache or weakness across me, and can do all my own work. I cannot praise your medicine enough, and would advise all suffering women to try it."—Mrs. Samuel Frake, Prospect Plains, N.J.

The Medicine that has Restored a Million Women to Health is

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.

June 10, 1901.

My daughter sixteen years old, has been in very poor health ever since the change to womanhood a year ago. She had the best of doctors but they did her little good. She complained of feeling tired all the time, did not care for anything, pain in her back, very nervous, poor in flesh and so pale. It made her tired to ride or walk any distance, could not go to school. Some thought she could not live long. Through the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she is now in the best of health. I feel that your medicine saved her life.

MRS. ANNA HUGHES, Altmar, N. Y.

December 12, 1902.

About a month ago I took a very bad cold and it was at time of menstruation and it stopped my menses. I began to have pains in my ovaries and at last I had inflammation of the ovaries and pain in my kidneys and bladder. I got over that but did not flow hardly any. The last time I came around I began to have that pain in my right ovary and it lasted a week and I have been flowing for a week. I would like some advice as I do not know what to think of my case.

MISS RUBY MUSHRUSH.

July 22, 1903.

About three months ago the doctor turned the X-ray on me to see what was the matter and found that I had an abscess near my ovary and in a place that if it had broken would have killed me right away.

The doctor's medicine did me no good, so Mama went to the store and got me a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I am now so well that I can work, thanks to your medicine. It has saved me from an operation.

MISS RUBY MUSHRUSH, East Chicago, Ind.

February 10, 1902.

As I have heard and read so much about your medicine, I have decided to write you and tell you my trouble and ask your advice. I am completely run down, am a widow, twenty-five years old, and have one boy five years old. I have never been strong since the birth of my child. Menstruation is irregular and scanty and am always in such distress, pain in lower abdomen and limbs, pain and dizziness in head, cold hands and feet, poor appetite, sick headache, nervous, have leucorrhoea badly, bearing down pains in small of back, pain in both sides, also have catarrh of head and throat. I have had different doctors but they do not help me and I am discouraged. I will be glad to hear from you. Would like to feel well once more.

MRS. ANNIE M. WAHL.

June 1, 1902.

I think it is my duty to let everyone know what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me. It has made me well and happy. Five months ago I could hardly walk across the room, I was so full of pain. I could scarcely step. I now feel like a new woman. I sleep well and have a good appetite. I used to get such awful sick headache spells, but now I have them no more. Also would be troubled with awful bearing down pain at time of menstruation but have also been relieved of this. I cannot praise your medicine enough. I think it is the best thing made for women. I advise, everyone who suffers with female trouble to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.

MRS. ANNIE M. WAHL, Bellwood, Blair Co., Pa.

October 10, 1901.

I think it is my duty to let you know the good that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me. I think it is the best medicine in the world. I was well until I weaned my baby and then I began to bloat and had bearing down pains. I took to filling up with water in my abdomen. I had the doctor and he said it was abdominal dropsy and that not having menstruation was the cause of it. He said I would have to be tapped. He tapped me once and took eleven quarts of water from me and in a week I began to fill up again and he was waiting to tap me again. I wrote to Mrs. Pinkham and began to take the Vegetable Compound and the water began to leave me. When I had taken two bottles it had all left me and menses appeared. I now feel as well as I ever did and am able to do all my work. I feel very thankful to you.

MRS. HATTIE RILEY, Waterford, Ohio.