Show WHO STI WAS r S SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. E PINKHAM And a True Story of How the Vegetable Compo Compound na Had Its Birth and How the Panic 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 yeas years she taught school and became known as a woman of an alert and investigating mind an earnest seeker after knowledge knO and above all possessed of a wonderfully sympathetic sympathetic nature In 1843 18 she married Isaac 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 days it was common for mothers to make their own home medicines from roots and herbs natures nature's own remedies remedies- calling in a physician only in specially urgent cases By tradition and 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 i Mrs Pinkham took a great interest 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 orchards vegetable foods of all kinds so if we wo 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 arious various ills and weaknesses of the body and it was her lier pleasure to search these out and prepare simple and effective medicines medicines medi medi- cines for her own family and friends Chief of these was a rare combination combination tion of the choicest medicinal roots and herbs found best adapted for the cure euro of the ills and weaknesses peculiar peculiar liar to the female sex and Lydia E. E Pink hams ham's friends and neighbors learned that her compound relieved and cured and tt t t. t became quite popular among them All this so far was vas done freely without with without with with- out money and without price as 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 us this class of business suffered most from fearful depression so when the Centennial Centen nial year dawned it found their property property property prop prop- erty swept away Some other source of income had to be found At this point Lydia E. E PInkham's Ve Vegetable table Compound was made known to the world The Tho three sons and the daughter with their mother combined forces force to 4 1 restore the family fortune They argued that the medicine which was wasso wasso wasso so good for their woman friends and neighbors was equally good for the women of the whole world The had no money and little credit Their first laboratory was the Idt kitchen hen where roots and herbs were steeped on the stove gradually filling a gross of bottles 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 medi medi- cine now called Lydia L dia E. E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and these were distributed by the Pinkham sons in Boston New Nev York and Brooklyn The Tho wonderful curative properties of the medicine were to a gr great at extent self-advertising self for whoever used it recommended it to others and the demand demand de de- mand gradually increased In 1877 by 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 today to to- day Lydia E. E Pinkham and her Vegetable Vegetable Vege Vege- table Compound have become household house hold words everywhere and und many tons of roots and herbs are used annually annually annu annu- ally in its manufacture Lydia E. E Pinkham herself did not live to see the great success of this work She passed to her reward years ago but not till she had provided means for continuing continuing- her work as effectively as she could have done it herself During her long and eventful experience experience experience she was vas was ever methodical in her work and she was always careful to preserve preserve preserve pre pre- serve a record of every case that 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 including ing symptoms treatment and results were recorded for future reference and to-day to these records together with hundreds of thousands made since are available available- to sick women the world over and represent a vast collaboration collaboration collaboration tion of information regarding the treatment of womans woman's ills which for auth authenticity and accuracy can hardly be equaled in any library in the world With Lydia E. E Pinkham worked her law in the present Mrs Pinkham She was carefully instructed in all her won hard 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 five years she has continued it and nothing in the work shows when the first Lydia E. E Pinkham ham dropped her herpen herpen herpen pen and the present Mrs Pinkham now the mother of a large family took it up With women assistants some as capable as us her herself elf the present Mrs Pinkham continues this great probably from the office of no other person have so many women been advised ad how to regain health Sick women women women wo wo- men this advice is Yours for Health freely given if you only write to ask usk for it Such is the history of Lydia E. E Pinkham's Pink Pink- hams ham's Vegetable Compound made from simple roots and herbs the theone one great medicine for lor women's ailments and the fitting monument to the noble noblewoman noblewoman woman whoso whose name it bears bean t L NERVOUS N E R V 0 US DEBILITY 0 E B I L I TY A Scranton Woman Tells How Dr Williams' Williams Pink Pils Pills Made Her Well and Strong Nervous debility is the common name for what the doctors term neurasthenia It is characterized by mental depres depression ion fits of the blues or melancholy loss of energy and spirits The Tho patients patient's eyes ees become becom dull the pink fades from the cheeks the memory becomes defective so that it is difficult to recall dates and names at will Some of these symptoms only may be present or all of them The remedy lies in toning up the nervous system and there is no medicine better adapted for this purpose than Dr Williams Williams' Pink Pills Mrs Jane J. J Davies of No Warren Warren War War- ren street Scranton Pa says Some years ago I became greatly reduced in health and strength and my nervous system became so debilitated that I felt wretched I could not i rest lest or sleep well at nig night t tand and woke up as weary and languid in the morning as I hi-as hi was when I went to bed My head ached in the morning and aud often there was a n pain iny in any imy y right side which was worse when I Sat bat down My nerves were on edge all the ithe time every little noise noibe bothered me and I was generally miserable Then I decided to try Dr Williams' Williams Pink Pills for tor Pale People as my husband had taken them theme with good results and they did wonders for me Now I have no more pain in my side no more more headaches I sleep well and feel strong and able todo todo to todo do my work Dr Williams' Williams Pink Pills cured Mrs l Davies and they can do just as much for other weak pale ailing men or women who are slipping into a n hopeless decline They strike straight at the root of all common diseases caused by poor and impoverished blood Dr Williams Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all druggists or will be sent postpaid on receipt of price 50 60 cents per box six boxes for by the Dr Williams' Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY w W. 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