Show SUFFERIMIN SILENCE f HEALTH I I feline to t I A Talk About Domestic Martyrdom dna A SI By MARGARET L BRIGGS ELo r > < J 0 0I I tIng AlL RIGHTS UESERVED 5t I a I petitions No one likes to hear a woman grumbling all the lime because she Is sick Bdut As a generalthing a womnn whose complaining strikes the deepest chord or Order 1301 resistance In others Is the woman who Insists upon having everyone know CI that she Is suffering and then tells with great volubility that she Isnt one off 2o huth0r > 0 of-f 130 the grumbling kind cf We do not have very much sympathy for this woman somehow although tion we convince ourselves by every argument that we should It Is the real silent sufferers that call forth not only sympathy but admiration and wondrr Have you not seen sick women suffering all kinds of torture who have yet The orfer oil become so used to their aches and pains and have such heroic disposition cf lTnU 1f CtlJ that they actually go through their duties with a smile Most uooplo have rcmaiui ii seen one or two such women In their lifetime The lives of such women are my Imo short they arc heroines pure and simple while they live many of them never gedistOll t ° Count utter a complaining word from one years end to another they have their duty flit il I rising I the to perform and they do It all and more These women are martyrs they county Coal leave a hallowed memory but they make their children selfish Such a woman Strai Is I alwayn running upslajra to net her husbands overcoat when he ought to met in time r stcrda go for It himself she Is losing sleep at night to allay some trifling ailment of of some member of the family when she herself Is In far greater illstrpss of diI1cutI0ii 3ho is doing SQtflO < other unselfish thing that Is but making hor own life shorter viiC chlldr It Is this real silent sufferer whoso devotion to her household Is so com 5jttd districts not Photo hat she hides her own miserable health who goes through her round Tie order I of drudgery every day and finally succumbs to the Inevitable toae but va If these women would but realize that It Is their lives and not their deaths led to the scl that Is needed Cannot we whisper word of caution to them and get them to ttcrearc Ii 0 jn the coun take heed to themselves Can we not convince thorn that however hcrolo not exist al their daily life It Is a mistaken and shortsighted heroism That the time will rich illstij cTdershouk surely come probably when they are needed the most when the tension under tlnatcil chill collaase will follow The Ldnot M which they have lived will relax and utter history it could attcniP of the heroic women whoso experience hag been Just this proves this statement A commu1 state-ment Perhaps the silent sufferer will steal away quietly and consult a phy roai Oscat 0 Brad Peter sician she may keep her medicine hidden she may be making quiet effort to ownty prlthl thl keep herself braced up to her duty but If she Is suffering from some female trouble she will not get help in this way the doctor to whom she applies may 5llotvCd to 0 0 lantlV all not unuersianci ner case other The real help for such a women Is In Lydia 13 PInkhams Vegetable Compound that no sil three of thf pound It has a famous record for curing distinctly feminine ills Not only Before prol this but the woman who is sick and doesnt want others to know it because I of the pell 7 elected chi she thinks they will worry about her can get perfectly safe and confidential HAD advice by writing to Mrs PInkham I At the The trouble la that the silent sufferer who has battled with her troubles BO 353 Count long and as she thinks ao successfully will not make this effort for herself It as his < l of others all and taught others by the co She has been thinking her life to rely upon her She takes a fierce sort of satisfaction In using up her Iffc In the service harmony board of others but all the time she Is going from bad to worse A lull conception That ofl of her duty would show this woman that after she has sacrificed herself she matter 8 will leave her work incomplete She has taught others to lean upon her until toanl hasl nnd there they cannot stand alone and what will become of them 1C her health Is neglected modlflcntlf neg-lected Is there no one who will speak to her the convincing word and make Fumed Inl her understand that she can get the health and strength she so much needs ion was I netlon fir from Mrs PInkhams medicine It has done so much for other hard working petitions earnest women and It can do the same for her to act wL 0 We cannot afford to Jose such women we need them among us Wo need matter of Ito their heroic example of selfsacrifice and we need them not broken In health I-to stopili but strong and well We need their example of fortitude and we urge thorn VAN to take the step In time which will preserve their health and lengthen their Oscar liver a bl lives of usefulness tuteu vlf Vor Vi |