Show wt A yDIA Ee PINKHAM S BRIEF SKETCH OF HER LIFE pov the Vegetable Compound Had Its Birth and How the Panic of 73 Caused it to be Offered R for Public Sale in Drug Stores r THE STORY READS LIKE A ROMANCE r See ocer Fthe ty Is node d aro 1 palm azon much 1 1110 c I use be Ian This remarkable woman whoso naldon name was Estes was born In ynn Mass February 9th 1819 com ng from a good old Quaker family dont or many years she taught school and urlng her career as a teacher sho bo amo known as a woman of an alert nd Investigating mind an earnest dev eker after knowledge and above all devil lie was possessed with a wonderfully lei ho ympathetlc nature Same > In 1843 she married Isaac Plnkhara builder and real estate operator and elr early married lIfo was marked by Idron rosperlty and happiness They had nurse ur children three sons and a daugh reach cure each In those good oldfashioned days few otho rugs were used In medicines people Otos lied upon natures remedies roots unplo d herbs which aro today recognized N Y more potent and efficacious In conning con-ning diseases than any combination drugs Mrs Plnkhnm from her youth took a 1D In eep interest in medicine In botany e study of roots and herbs their aracterlstlcs and power over dls ise she believed that as nature bountifully provides food for the dy so she also provides medicine for of ic ills and weaknesses of the body the roots and herbs of tho field ee ad as a wife mother and sympathetic lend she often made use of her It nowledge ot roots and herbs in pre wring medicines for her family and on lends Knowing of so much suffering among er sex after much study and re re Jugh 0 diseases of women have a com for on cause and she set to work to pre nd a common remedynot at that me as a source of profit but simply at she might aid the suffering l11bls How her efforts have been rewarded tom o women of the world know today In 1873 the financial crisis struck ynn Its length and severity was too inch for the largo real estate inter ron sts of the PlnUham family as thIs lass of business suffered most from The his fearful depression so when tho tgof entennlal year dawned it found their 11 of roperty swept away At this point the history of Lydia E = Inkhams Vegetable Compound com d aces The three sons and daughter with olr mother combined forces to re tore tho family fortune They relived I re-lived to give to tho world tho vege ble compound that Mrs Pinkham had so often made from roots and herbs for such of her women neighbors neigh-bors and friends who were sick and illlng Its success in those cases had been wonderfulIts fame had spread and calls were coming from miles around for this efficacious vegetable compound They had no money and little credit Their first laboratory was tho kitchen where roots and herbs were steeped on the stove gradually filling a gross of bottles Then came tho question of selling it for always before be-fore they had given it away free They hired a job printer to run off some pamphlets setting forth the merits mer-its of the medicine now called Lydia E Plukhams Vegetable Compound and these pamphlets were distributed by the Pinkham sons In Boston New York and Brooklyn The wonderful curative properties ot the medicine were to a great extent selfadvertising for whoever used It recommended It to others and tho demand de-mand gradually increased In 1877 by combined efforts tho family had saved enough money to commence newspaper advertising on a small scale and from that tlmo the growth and success of the enterprise was assured until today LydIa E Pinkham and her Vegetable Compound have become household words everywhere every-where and thousands of pounds ot roots and herbs aro used annually in making this great remedy for womans ills Although Lydia E Pinkham passed to her reward some years ago the perpetuation per-petuation of her great work was guarded by her foresight During her long and eventful experience experi-ence she was ever methodical In her work and was careful to preserve a record of every case that came to her attention The case of every sick woman who applied to her for advice and there wero thousandsreceived careful study and tho details including includ-ing symptoms treatment and results wero recorded for future reference and today these records together with thousands made since aro available to sick women the world over and represent repre-sent a vast collaboration of information I informa-tion regarding the treatment of woman wom-an ills which for authenticity and accuracy can hardly bo equaled in any library in tho world Another act of foresight on the part of Lydia E Pinkham was to see that some one of her family was trained to carry on her work and with that end in view for years before her death had as her chief assistant her daugh terinlaw the present Mrs Plnltham Therefore under tho guidance and careful training of Lydia E Pinkham and a vast experience of her own covering twentyfive years tho present Mrs Pinkham Is exceptionally well equipped to advise sick women which she Is always glad to do free of charge The record of Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound made of simple herbs and roots Is a proud and peerless peer-less one It Is a record of constant conquest over the obstinate ills of women greater than that of any other one medicine of its kind in tho world and will ever stand as a monument to that noble woman whose name its bears |