ril 18, 1901

I will now write you a letter of gratitude for what your medicine has
done for me. I suffered with very painful menstruation and could not
become pregnant which was my great desire. I began the use of your
medicine and after taking sixteen bottles I found myself pregnant. I
continued the use of your Vegetable Compound and felt well all the time.
Last October my baby was born, it was a girl and weighed eleven and
one-half pounds. It is my belief that I would never have had my baby if
I had not used your medicine.

I recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to all, believing
there is no better medicine for women.

MRS. CHAS. ROHDE,
621 Vine Street, Peoria, Ill.

I have intended for some time to write to you and tell you what Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me. I had been feeling weak
and nervous, very easily tired and had much backache.

I took two bottles of your Compound and felt so much better that I
enjoyed, instead of dreading my household duties.

I can and do gladly recommend your medicines to anyone suffering from
female troubles.

MRS. M. E. SHEPLER,
17 Amesbury Place, Cleveland, Ohio.

Household Cares

+Top right: Lady sitting in chair with large broom in the backgroud;
Bottom left: Lady standing with forefinger on cheek+

A Sick Woman's Devotion to Duty is a Heroism which a Well Person Cannot
Understand.

How distressing to see a woman struggling with her daily round of
household duties, when her back and head are aching, and every movement
brings out a new pain.

One day the poor woman is wretched and utterly miserable; in a day or
two she is better, and laughs at her fears, thinking there is nothing
much the matter after all; but before night the deadly backache
reappears, the limbs tremble, the lips twitch--it seems as though all
the imps of Satan were clutching her vitals; she "goes to pieces" and is
flat on her back.

No woman ought to arrive at this terrible state of misery, because these
symptoms are a sure forerunner of womb troubles. She must remember that
=Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound= is almost an infallible cure for
all female ills, such as irregularity of periods, which cause weak
stomach, sick headache, etc., displacements and inflammation of the
womb, or any of the multitude of illnesses which beset the female
organism. Read how Mrs. Frake wrote to Mrs. Pinkham when she was in
great trouble. Her letter tells the res