Show I t. t WHO SHE Sia WA- WA WAS S I SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. E PINKHAM And a True Story of How the Vegetable Compound i Had Its Birth and How the Panic Pan c of 73 Caused it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores This remarkable woman whose maiden name was Estes was born in Lynn Mass February 1819 coming coming coming com com- ing from a good old Quaker family For some years she tat ta taught school and became known as a woman of an alert S oil and investigating mind an earnest seeker after knowledge and above all possessed of a wonderfully sympathetic sympathetic sympathetic nature In 1843 she married Isaac Pinkham Pinkham a builder and real estate operator and their early married life was marked by prosperity and happiness They had four children three sons and a daughter In those tho good old fashioned old days it was was was' common for mothers to make their own home medicines medicines' from roots and herbs natures nature's own remedies remedies- calling in a phys physician eian only in specially urgent cases By tradition and experience experience experience ex ex- many of them gained a wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- knowledge of the curative properties properties properties prop prop- of the various roots and herbs Mrs Pinkham took a great int interest rest in the study of roots and herbs their characteristics and power over disease She maintained that just as nature so bountifully provides in the harvest- harvest fields and orcha orchards ds vegetable foods of all kinds so if we but take the pains to find them in the roots and herbs of the field there are remedies expressly expressly ex ex- pressly designed to cure the various ills and weaknesses of the body and it was her pleasure to search these out and prepare simple and effective medicines medi medicines cines for her own family and friends Chief of these was a rare combination combination tion of the thc choicest medicinal roots and herbs found best adapted for the cure of the ills and weaknesses p peculiar peculiar culiar cu- cu liar to the female sex and Lydia E. E Pinkham's Pinkham's Pink Pink- hams ham's friends and neighbors learned that her compound relieved and cured and it became quite popular among them All this so far was done freely without without with with- out money and without price as a a. labor of love But in 1873 the financial crisis struck Lynn Its length and severity were too much for the large real estate interests of the Pinkham family as this class of business suffered most from fearful depression so when the Cen Centennial Centennial Centen Centen- ten nial year dawned it found their property property property prop prop- erty swept away Some other source of income had to be bo found At this point Lydia E E. E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was made known to the world The three sons and the daughter with their mother Combined forces to restore the family fortune They argued that the medicine which was wasso wasso wasso so good for their woman yom an friends and neighbors was equally good for the women of the whole world The had no money and little credit Their first laboratory s was the kitchen where roots and herbs were steeped on the stove gradually filling a gross of bottles z Then came the question of selling it for always before they had given it away freely They hired a job printer to run off some pamphlets setting forth the merits of the medicine medicine medicine medi medi- cine cine now called Lydia E E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and these were distributed by the Pinkham sons in Boston New York and Brooklyn 4 The wonderful curative properties of the medicine were ere to a great extent self-advertising self for whoever used it recommended it to others and the damand demand demand de- de mand gradually increased In 1877 by hy combined efforts the family family family fam fam- ily had saved enough money to commence commence commence com com- mence newspaper advertising and from that time the growth and success of the enterprise were assured until today today to to- today day Lydia E E. Pinkham and her Vegetable Vegetable Vegetable Vege Vege- table Compound have become household household house house- hold words everywhere and many tons of roots and herbs are used annually annually annually annu annu- ally in its manufacture Lydia E. E Pinkham her herself elf did not live to see the great success of this thia work She passed t t to her reward years ago but not till she had provided means means means' for continuing her work as effectively as she could have done it herself During her long and eventful experience experience experience she was ever m methodical in her work and she was always careful to preserve preserve preserve pre pre- serve a record of every case th that at came to her attention The case of every sick woman who applied to her for advice advice- and there were thousands thousands received received careful study and the details including including ing symptoms treatment and results were recorded for future reference and to-day to these records together with J hundreds of thousands made since are available to sick women the world over and represent a a. vast collaboration collaboration I tion of information regarding the treatment of womans woman's ills which for authenticity and accuracy can hardly be equaled in any library in the world t With Lydia E. E Pinkham worked her law in the present Mrs Pinkham She was carefully instructed in all her won hard-won knowledge and for years she assisted her in her vast correspondence To her hands naturally fell the direction of the work when its originator tor passed away For nearly twenty- twenty five years she has continued it and nothing in the work shows when the first Lydia E. E Pinkham dropped her he- herpen pen and the present Mrs Pinkham now the mother of a large family took it up With woman assistants some as capable as herself the present Mrs Pinkham continues this great work and probably from the office of no other person have so many women been advised advised advised ad ad- how to regain health Sick ick women women women wo wo- men this advice is Yours for tor Health freely given if you only write to ask for it Such is the history of Lydia E. E Pinkham's Pinkham's Pink- Pink hams ham's Vegetable Compound made from simple roots and herbs the one t great medicine for women's ailments and the fitting monument to the noblewoman noble nobl woman whose name it bears |