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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 10, 1896.
"Whom the Stork Brings."
K_^ —^_^O ONE who hae reared a family and knows the "sweet delimits of
L < \^Wfes^' J 3^T tpntler » loving re" can have any adequate appreciation of what
l^JflKuHgHv is misled by those who do not enjoy the blessings of parentage.
J^^ft^lK|Uv The burden of childbearinjr, totretber with all the care* and trials
pvfij^jrJßjljjj of bringing up a family of children, are not to be compared with
T#£i|y^<r^t^ H the burden of the wife who has no such cares. The mothers who
U«itpMH>B*bHj| complain of the cares of motherhood— of a noisy house, torn clothes
and soiled carpets— often do not stop to balance the blessings against the cares. What
is a fxnger print on the waU if we only remember also the tiny hand that made it?
What Ma muddy little boot but a thing erf beauty to the mother wbo has so often
kisMd the little foot that wore it? Ah, yes, there are cares and trials and hard work,
and days and nights of anxiety and watchfulness, but— "if no little boots were there,'
what then? Clean watts, bright carpets, quiet rooms, undisturbed sleep — no, no!
These are no price for baby's dimpled hands and laughing eyes and rosy lips. Let
him lord it over us; let him record his reach daily with a mark around the wall; let
him measure his stride upon the carpet and stamp his little foot with mock tyranny
and make us all tremble with a frown, for is he not the king inside these wads, and
shall not a king be clothed with majesty and power? What a world -it were if there
were no babies in it — if we were all adults ! We should die of the weariness of living.
But there are homes, thousands of them, where the sweet sunshine of childhood
never breaks in- where no little wardrobe was ever prepared for the guest "whom the
stork brings" — and there are others where all the preparations of welcome had been
made, but a raven came with tbe stork and the little stranger passed on to another
world.
For tnose who have thus far missed the sweetest, grandest, most ennobling thing
in life our baby book is especially prepared. Of course there are cases of sterility
wbicb are hopeless, but not many. Most of them are only functional and will yield to
the Viavi treatment. And not only those who have failed to bear children should
read this article, but those who have found cnildbearing a heavy burden and those
who have failed to bear strong and healthy children.
VIAVI.
A Uterine ; inspection invited, i A Pure Vegetable
: VISITORS
Remedy. ;. ALWAYS WELCOME : I Compound.
THE VIAVI COMPANY.
MOMB OFFICE AND LABORATORY :
2304, 2306 AND 2308 VAN NESS AVENUE, NEAR VALLEJO ST.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
STRONG, HEALTHY WOMEN.
Tbe want of the world is strong, healthy mothers. Give us these and we will
answer for the race. Nine women out of ten are lacking in health and strength, if not
positively ill. The sickly men are those who never were strong— who were born
weak; but the sickly women get sickly because something goes wrong. It is the
ills peculiar to the sex that we are going to talk about, not in phrases which you do not
understand, but in plain, common language. It is no relief of your troubles to bear
them described in smooth Latin terms. What you want is some cure for them, and
not pleasing names for very unpleasant things.
HEALTH ESSENTIAL TO HAPPINESS.
There is no degree of beauty, intelligence or amiability which can compensate for
a diseased body in a woman. Indeed, there is no beauty, intelligence or amiability
which bad health will not undermine. Neither wealth, position nor opportunity can
compensate for the absence of health. Tbe conscientious woman has other reasons
than selfish ones for feeling bad health to be the greatest of misfortunes. She knows
she cannot be ill without casting a shadow over the home that she would, if she could,
keep always bright. If she has children she will not only find herself unable to give
them the mental and moral training they need, but she may not be able to hold even
their admiration and love, and the chances are ten to one that she has given them a
hideous heritage of disease. She may well be haunted with the fear that the day will
come when they will think of her unkindly for bringing into this world children who
cannot escape from a life of suffering because of her enfeebled constitution and their
inheritance of her weakness. She may well fear also that the time will come when
her husband will weary of coming home to the dim room where the invalid wife is
always ailing, and will go elsewhere that he may find the high spirits, the physical
vigor and the entertaining vivacity which he is never able to get in his own home. In
short, however guiltless a woman may be, she cannot but feel that she, as a chronic
invalid, is daily damaging the lives of those she loves best, and that each day which
prolongs her painful and wasted life is a misfortune rather than a blessing. Yet the
time really never comes when a woman with anything to iive for is ready to relinquish
life, do matter how acute her physical sufferings or how terrible her mental torment.
It is purery a vegetable compound — more a food than a medicine — and ia prepared
in a predige3ted manner, so that it can be easily absorbed by tbe tissues of the body
with which it comes in contact. The capsule is applied directly to the nterus throagh
the vagina and is absorbed, giving health, strength and vitality to these parts. The
Cerate is applied to tbe skin over the diseased organs, and here, through* the absorbent
power of tbe bkin, the patient is able to introduce Viavi into the system directly and
in such quantities as may be desired.
H you are perfectly well you will have no occasion to use our remedy; and yet we
will ask you to read onr pamphlet through, and if you believe we are speaking the
troth you will be in position to recommend our remedy to some one who may be in
need of it, and thus be the means of bringing to another the blessing which yon
happily enjoy.
Pamphlets can be had by asking for them.
Ladies are cordially invited to attend a lecture at Viavi Hall, 2304 Van Ness
•venue. May 13, at 2:30 P. M.
WHAT IS VIAVI?
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