Show I 1 anh f SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E PINKHAM nd a true story of how the vegetable compound had its birth and how the panic of 73 caused it to be offered for public sale in drug stores this remarkable woman whose aanden name was estes was born in aynn mass february ath 1819 corn ng from a good old quaker family tor some years she taught school and became known as a woman of an alert ad investigating mind an earnest beeker after knowledge and above 1 possessed of a wonderfully nature in 1843 she married isaac builder and real estate operator and leir early married life was marked by os penty and happiness they bad ur children three sons and a in those good old fashioned days it as common for mothers to make acir own home medicines from roots id herbs nature s own fremed es illing in a physician only in specially gent cases by tradition and ex nence many of them gained a won erful knowledge of the curative prop ties of the various roots and herbs mrs pinkham took a great interest the study of roots and herbs their cs and power over disease ie maintained that just as nature so provides in the harvest elds and orchards vegetable foods of I 1 kinds so if we but take the pains i find them in the roots and herbs the field there are remedies ex essly designed to cure the various s and weaknesses of the body and was her pleasure to search these out id prepare simple and effective medi nes for her own family and friends chief of these was a rare combia on of the choicest medicinal roots id herbs found best adapted for the ire of the ills and weaknesses becu ir to the female sex and lydiaa pink ains friends and neighbors learned at her compound relieved and cured id it became quite popular among em all this so far was done freely with it money and without price as a bor of love abut in 1873 the financial crisis struck nn its length and severity were too uch for the large real estate interests the pinkham family as this class business suffered most from adful depression so when the Centen al year dawned it found their prop ty swept away some other source income had to be found at this point lydia E pinkham s vegetable ege table compound was made known the world the three sons and the daughter ith their mother combined forces to restore the family fortune they argued that the medicine which was 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 kitchen where roots and herbs were steeped on the stove gradually filling a gross of bottles ihen 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 medi cine now called L dia E pinkham s vegetable compound and these were distributed by the pinkham sons in bohton new york and brooklyn the wonderful curative properties of the medicine were to a great extent self advertising for whoever used it recommended it to others and the de mand gradually increased in 1877 by combined efforts the fam ily had saved enough money to commence new shaper advertising and from that time the growth and success of the enterprise were assured until today adia E and her vege table compound have become house hold words everywhere and many tons of roots and herbs are used annu ally in its manufacture lydia 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 her work as effectively as she could have done it herself during her long and eventful elpe nence she was ever methodical in hei work and she was always careful to pre serve a record of every case that came to her attention the case of every sick woman who applied to her for advice and there were thousands received careful study and the details include ing symptoms treatment and results were recorded for future reference and to day these records together with hundreds of thousands made since are available to sick women the world over and represent a vast col labora tion of information regarding the treatment of woman s ills which for authenticity and accuracy can hardly be equaled in any library in the world with lydia E pinkham worked her daughter in law the present mrs pinkham she was i artfully instructed in all her 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 angina tor passed away for nearly twenty five years she has continued it and nothing in the work shows when the first lydia E pinkham dropped her pen and the present mrs pinkham now the mother of a large family took it up with women 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 ad how to regain health bick wo men this advice is yours for health freely given if 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taken before re tiring soothes my nerves and gives sound sleep because it relieve ir rit ability of the stomach nerves being a predigested predl food before I 1 used grape nuts my teeth were loose in the gums they were so bad I 1 was afraid they would some day all fall out since I 1 have used grape nuts I 1 have not been bothered any more with loose teeth all desire tor pastry has disappear ed and I 1 have gained in health weight and happiness since I 1 began to use grape nuts name given by co battle creek mich get the ta little book the road to well valle in pigs there s a reason to launder white S ik handkerchief do not put te elk hand kerch efa in the ord nary wah ae they are aas ly laundered at home slake a etring lather of ivory soap and water but do not rub the boap on the hand kerch ef or ue boda R nee and iron wh ie damp with a moderately hot iron ELEANOR NERVOUS DEBILITY A scranton woman tells how dr William sPink pl s made her well and strong nervous debility ie the for what the doktors genii it is by depression fits ot the blues or niel acl oly loss of energy and spirits ibe patient eye bacon e dull alie pink fades from the cheeks the becomes defective u that it 13 difficult to recall dates aud names at will son of these symptom only may bo or all of them the remedy lies in tonii g ap the nervous system and there is i medicine better i adapted for tins u than dr williams pink pills mrs jane J dimes of no war reu street pi says some i deais acco I 1 beann acm aly iu 1 health ill strength aid my system became so debilitated tl at I 1 felt wretched I 1 could not i abt or sleep well at inight and woke up ns weal and languid in tl e g as I 1 was I 1 to bed my head ached in the moiling ni d often there wi s a pain in my right sile which was dolse when I 1 on edge all the time every little noise bothered me and I 1 was generally n isei able then I 1 decided to try dr williams pink pilla for pale people my hubband had taken them with goal results and they did 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