Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 22, 1905, Page 9

IR L PERIODS Suggestions How to Find Relief from Such MI DDLE IGNORANCE AND FILTH CHIEF CHARACTERISTICS. Poverty, With Its Accompanying Con- ditions, Shortened the Lives of the People—Leper Hospitals in Thou- sands in Europe. The home of the laborer in the nineteenth century contains furniture and utensils which in the fourteenth century would have represented the highest grade of luxury. Employment for the laborer must have been pre- carious and the pay disgracefully small. Food was scarce and of the kind which contains almost no nour- ishment. Tools of labor, even of the most advanced trades, were clumsy, inefficient and few in number, as well as hard to get. If the whole stock of a carpenter’s tools comprised two broadaxes, an adze, a square and a spoke shave, how limited must have been the scope of his operations. Ag- riculture was a farce, for the yield of wheat to the acre was considered good if it reached six bushels. In the fourteenth century people lived in mud huts, with a rough door and no chimney. It was not till a century later that the erection of a chimney was considered more than an indulgence in luxury, a fire commonly being built against the mud plastered wall of the hut and the smoke escap- jing through the roof. All furniture was of wood. Even the nobility had no glass in the windows during this time. Cleanliness was not a charac- teristic of the people, and Thomas a Becket was considered more than necessarily nice because he had the floor of his house strewn with fresh straw each day. The rich in the middle ages con- cealed a want of cleanliness in their homes and persons under a profusion of costly scents, and to swarm with vermin was no _ disgrace. When Erasmus visited England in the reign of Henry VIII. he complained bitterly — While no woman is entirely free from | Vegetable Cen nn eee I have tried periodical suffering, it does not seem to | 8° many remedies without help. be the plan of nature that women) HOE enone rote gitiriy of my leeches should suffer so severely. Menstrua-| faa suffering for me, but after Lad used the tion is a severe strain on @ woman’s | Compound two months I became ar and | vitality. If it is painful or irregular | natural and am now pany well and free | something is wrong which should be | from pain atmy monthly periods. tam very set right or it will lead to a serious de-/ grateful for what Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege rangement of the whole female organ- | ble Compound has done for me. ism. Such testimony should be accepted More than fifty thousand women! by all women as convincing evidence have testified ingrateful letters to Mrs.,that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Pinkham that Lydia E. Pinkham’s| Compound stands without a peer asa Vegetable Compound overcomes pain- | remedy for all the distressing ills of ful and irregular menstruation. Saggbladeg 2 ‘ * It provides a safe and sure way of es- | The success of Lydia E. Pinkham's cape from distressing end dangerous, Vegetable Compound rests upon the weaknesses and disewses. | well-earned gratitude of American The two following letters tell so con-| Women. ae > | fincingly what Lydia E. Pinkham’s| (When women are troubled with irreg~ | Vegetable Conipound will do for! Ular, suppressed or painful menstrua- | worien, they cannot fail to bring hope | tion, leucorrhcea, displacement or ul- to thousands of sufferers. |ceration of the womb, that bearing- sae. Nelli es 5 . |down feeling, inflammation of the gee elie Hola ete bedi eae ovaries, backache, bloating, (or flatu- Dear Mrs Piakham:. = S”S~*~*S*«S CRC): Beeral debility, indigestion and rig, rarsga ; .. _|nervous prostration, or are beset with ai | Your medicine is indeed an ideal medicine such symptoms as dizziness, faintness, for women. I suffered niisery fov years with | 1) Stade, excitability, irritability, ner- Arise, my heart, and sing thy Easter song! To the great anthem of returning bird, And sweetening bud, and green, ascending blade, Add thou thy word. Long was the winter and the waiting fong; Heart, there were hours, indeed, thou wert afraid,— So long the Spring delayed. { j Shut in the Winter's alabaster tomb, So white and still and sleeping Summer lay, That dead she seemed; And none might know how in her magic side, Slept the young Spring, and moved, and smiled, And dreamed. Behold, she wakes again, and open-eyed, \ Gazes in wonder round the leafy room, a j i At the young flowers. Upon this Easter Day | fs Awaken, too, my heart, open thine eyes, H i And from thy seeming death thou; too, arise. Arise, my heart; yea, go thou forth ana sing! Join thou thy voice to all this music sweet, Of crowding leaf, and busy, building wing, And falling showers; The murmur soft of little lives new-born, The armies of the grass, the million feet Of marching flowers, How sweetly blows the Resurrection horn Across the meadows, over the far hills! In the soul’s garden a new sweetness stirs, And the heart fills, And in and out the mind flow the soft airs. Arise, my heart, and sing, this Easter morn; An the year’s resurrection do thy part,— Arise, my heart! Richard Le Galliene. of the nastiness of the people and at- tributed the frequent plagues to this cause. He said: “The floors are commonly of clay, strewed with rush- ws; under which lie unmolested a col- lection of beer, grease, fragments of bones, spittle and ment of cata and dogs, and of everything which is nauseous.” The densest ignorance prevailed among the masses. Investi- gation has led to the conclusion that the average duration of human life at that period was not half what it is at the present day. Bad food and want of cleanliness swept away the painful periods, headaches, and bearing-down pains. consulted two different physicians ut failed to get any relief. A friend from | the East advised me to try Lydia E. Pink-| and true remedy, vousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, they should remember there is one tried Lydia E. Pinkham’s ham’s Vegetable Compound. I did so, and! Vegetable Compound at once removes no longer suffer as I did before. My periods | (ch troubles, are natural; every ache and pain is gone, and my general health is much improved. I advise all women who suffer to take Lydia | E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.” Refuse to buy any other medicine, for you need the best. Don’t hesitate to write to Mrs. inkham if there is anything Mrs. Tillie Hart, of Larimore, N. D., j about your sickness you do not writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— understand. She will treat you with kindness and her advice is “T might have have been spared many | free. No woman ever regretted months of suffering and pain had I only; writing her and she has helped known of the efficacy of Lydia E. Pinkhain’s ; thousands. Address Lynn, Mass. Ask Mrs. Pinkham'’s Advice—A Woman Best Unierstands a Woman's Ills. The Important Point. people of the middle ages by ravages Edna—I dreamed last night that I Miss Fluffy—I made quite an im- Pal upon their health that the limited] was fishing and landed a whopper pression at the reception, didn't I? " skill of the time could not resist. A] May—What was his name?—Detroit ; Everybody seemed to be talking about ORIGIN OF THE EASTER FESTIVAL [Prise ets une sates tatters necro me ¢ were no less than twenty thousand Candid Friend—They talked - still By J. F. CARRERE leper hospitals in Europe. It is well The Present Rate Law. more about you after you had gone.— } ‘ to remember when we feel inclined) ‘tye quties of the present Interstate to complain of the hard times in our! Commerce Commission are to correct Important to Mothers. ' 5 ; ; day that such a state would have| 51 qiscriminations in railroad rates. | Bxamine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, he name Easter is of Saxon orig-; thus after the real full moon, which | tivals; Thursday in commemoration] been unheard of opulence four hun-| jr it finds that-an unjust rate is in | asafe and sure remedy for infants and children, being derived from that of the] is generally on the 14th or 15th of | of the Lord’s supper, Friday of his| dred years ago—New York Herald. | effect, the railroad ig notified. If it | and-see that it Goddess Estera, in whose honor sac-| the month. With this explanation | crucifixion and Saturday the Easter ST declines.to change it, the Commission fices and celebrations took place at| then of what is meant by the full | celebration really begins. In many English Business Methods. Gan bring suit’ in Court and if the Ficeechas ILA he opening of spring. With the ac-| moon, namely, that it is the 14th of | parts of Europe, especially in Russia, Louis Francis Brown, manager of] Gourt decides in favor of the Com- sli Cre oe ent of Christianity these heathen! the calendar moon, the rule is that | and during the middle ages, services|/the Burton Holmes travelogues has] ypissioncrs’ finding, the railroad must i Use Bor Oven Aci buh ceremonies were discontinued, but as | Easter day is always the first Sunday | were held all night before Easter un-| had many years’ experience in Amer-| ghey, or iis officers may be brought up i in ciomubeeglyd st I had occurred at the time of the } after the Pascal full moon, which hap- | til cockcrow, which is the hour at] ican theatrical affairs; but he learned for contempt of court and summarily WATCH SAVED HIS LIFE when the resurrection of Christ | pens upon or next after the 21st of | which the resurrection is supposed to] some things when he went to Lon-| gealt witn. a 2s celebrated by the church the old | March, and if the full moon happens | have taken place. The devout re-| don a year ago to arrange for the first Ses But Not in the Conventional Way It lame was applied to tke new festival. | on a Sunday, then Easter is the Sun-| mained for hours in prayer until -e of Mr. Hol ther Hi Hi . a z z appearance: Ol Mrs sommes there.” Be The Bill. Always Does in the Story Books. th the Latin races, however, the | day following. One object of this ar-| morning, when they at once saluted] jearned that American methods will Knicker—Didn’t the doctor build 1 ih teclull icifixion and resurrection of Christ | rangement was that’ Easter and the|each other with the salutation,| not always be accepted by the Eng you up? There came that unaccountable Iw | having occurred at the time of the | Jewish Passover should not coincide. | “Christ is risen,” to which the answer lish. Beaker Vea: put he seems to think in the conversation at the dinner table Jewish passover, they have called the | Easter is always between March 22 | was, “Yes, he is truly Tisen.” That “I arranged for Queen’s Hall, one of|/he built a bank.—Harper’s Bazar. that all hostesses dread, but it gave festival by a name suggesting that | and April 25. mbe last time Easter form of salutation is still the one in| the largest auditoriums in London,” Loves but Once—Unless. the gushing girl her opportunity fact : thus the French name for Eas- came on March 22 was iat 1818 and it Russia Easter morn. In continenta! said Mr. Brown in telling his expert-} She—Woman loves but once. “Ah, colonel,” she said, “I’m sure er is Paques and the Spanish Pas-y will mol occur that early again in this | Europe, however, and in Great Britain} ences, “and wanted to put up an elec-|_ He—True, unless she has another | tna¢ you've’ had qmany thrilling adven- cua. ' f century. " ‘ the church began the celebration of} tric sign calling attention to Burton|chance—Philadelphia Telegraph. Gites owoutennnl Secapes fran aicath As with all the other great festivals It may prove interesting to those | Easter at the mass of the previous| yolmes, I spoke to the manager just like the Haraea Gh ihe novel” of the church, the date when Easter | who are mathematically inclined te | day, or Saturday, and the bells on the] anout it, and he said: ‘Ah, it is very Deafness Cannot Be Cured “Well,” admitted the colonel, “I’ve should be celebrated has been the | figure out when Easter will occur in | churches, which had been silent since unusual, don’t you know. I will refer | by tocai applications, as the: had eine BrecEy: 3 jose icalls:” i cause of bitter controversy. ‘The| any given year in this century. If so,} Thursday, were again rung during the pereee to the managing director,’ exsed. portion of the’ ear. There {s only one way to at 4 5 A 2 ir oe ig eas | Wastern church insisted that it shou!@ | here is a rule they can follow: First, | the service. That tl id h Bs ne Ravatte Laine rae ae ra een pipe oe : Was your life sed saved ; A ¥ 4 ss x hat gentieman said he wou La Bd Heat dinar eth : x by a cherished Bible, a watch or a aoe 3 i 3 ss = - e Eustachian Tube. When thi 3 , be ce lebrated on the day of the month | divide the date of ane year by 19 and At the Saturday service, too, in the| refer my proposition to the board of tube ie iadsived you havesrumbliag sound or ime pack of cards that stayed the course on which the event commemorated | call the remainder a; divide the date | Catholic churches a large candle 1s directors. ‘It was so unusual.’ Datfoct Rearing: and whan tt cy tae aig of the bullet?” SS Se RL, ite, i ; tors. ° t t, and unless the inflammation c: ? occurred, and as the crucifixion is | of the year by 4 and call the remain- | pjiessed, and also the new fire to re- “After some delay the board of di- taken out and thie tube restored to its normal condt- “Not exactly that,’ protested the supposed to have taken place on the / der b, then divide the date of the year call the resurrection of Christ, the re tion, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases} plighiags. # sel fourteenth of Nison, the first Jewish | by 7 and call the remainder c. Sec- ue x ? rectors reached a decision which was oabiat teu: are oamaed Uy Catach, which ia nbehing victim, blushing; but lemme see, my month or Passover, on that date it| ond, divide 19a plus 24 by 30 and.cal! oe atari 4 bee aaibe nla tg communicated to me through the man-| ‘we will give One Hundred Dollars for eny case of | life was once saved by my watch. See, T ~ ik 3 . “| in the sanctuaries o' ie churches un- i Deaf: db hb) cured a was commemorated, and the resurrec-| the remainder d. Third, divide 2b til Ascension day, forty days later. aging director and the manager. I was by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Sex jreutars. free. eather sey Sst iat! iat tion two days later, on the sixteenth, | plus 4c plus 6d plus 5 by 7 and cali | The season is of course one of gteat told that t could not put up the sign Sold by tasieiatane Co aie nate Ange tha i re: . regardléss of -whother!: those «dates |itiesramnbiier action ia f ae é “| because ‘it would make our building] ‘Take iHail's Family Pills for constipation. glancing a e timepiece, “I see no si ates ; n Easter will be | rojoicing after the fasts of Lent and Heist jl , trace of a bullet on it. How did it came on Friday and Sunday or not. | the 22d plus d plus e of March; or | gormerly was celebrated with a num-| mre y oe ono: a vour life?” : f ¥ Ves! i xe A v yas 4 nae nu “Think of a place of amusement be- Something Doing Right Away. save your life? The Western church entirely dis- | the d plus e minus 9 of April. There ber of festivities which, according to 2 ‘ “Why,” stammeded the colonel, carded the day of the month in ar-/ are two exceptions to that rule: If | our modern ideas, are hardly connect: un ou SE ike tine ¥ could . make “Oh, dear,” said Mrs. Spider to Mr. sats 1 drat cameo Washins ne - ranging for the celebration and in-| aster falls under the calculation on | eq with an ecclesiastical event. Thus| 2° reply at the time, but I will erect| spider, looking down from her web on a wistbn vanes siesta Ee ar sisted that the crucifixion should al-| April 26, put it back to the 19th of |in France it was customary to play a| tat Siem Some day, it I have to do} tne shelf of the dry goods store. “I | PAWin lin OF NEN » ways be commemorated on a Friday | that month, and when it falls on game of ball, in which the ‘partici it by stealth. am afraid that we have got to move.” = geass and the resurrection on a Sunday. | April 25, put it back to the 18th un- ants ‘were Bisho s, Canons and “What’s the trouble now, dear?” ask- y i oth- : , i The matter finally came up for ad-| less d equal 29 and e equal 5. es chee aigaiterion ‘There were “The Cur Won't Fight.” ed Mr. Spider in surprise. “We have A Wonderful DISCOYErY: : justment before the Council of Ni-| With the substitution of Easter for | gances in France as late as the sev.| . .vd8e Sylvester Dana, who was for|tiyeq with this kind storekeeper for Broadland, S. Dak., April 17.—Quite caea, in 325, which decided in favor | the old festival of the Goddess Esters | enteenth century and other signs of | S°™* Yeats iudge of the police court) many months.” Ronse dob bag bern: creaed tere by of the Western contention, but the | all the old customs of the Saxons | joy and happiness. The law courts in Concord, N. H., always endeavored | «ye. gear, I know we have,” said | the publication of the story of G. W. ®astern church refused to change its | were not abandoned, but, on the con- | Were all closed and business seems to| *° smooth over any little differences |y,. spider, with a sigh. “But he has | GT@¥, who after a special treatment custom and thus gave rise to what is | trary, were preserved and Christian-| pave been ecuerails Panispendad. "win between persons brought before him. begun to advertise.” for three months was prostrate and if known as the “quartodeciman here-| ized. Thus the custom of giving |jngiand Easter has been celebrated On one occasion the charge was for a eee te CE helpless and given up to die with sy.” eggs, many of them beautifully col- xi is istian festiv, * eral ay technical assault, and it came out in q é Bright’s Disease. Bright’s Disease has is he ti f the adopti i y as a Christian festival since 669, and.| the course of the evidence that the Will Meet in Heaven. always been considered incurable, but At the time oi e adoption of the | ored, to friends at Easter was kent although the Puritans abolished it. regort it aw Ae pant ‘ olished it,| parties were neighbors and had been| A lady of Somerset bewailed the | evidently from thestory told by Mr. Gregorian calendar it was debated | up and the eggs were blessed by the as they did Christmas and th. Di % 7 2 e' feast of ter should be h. Fi th li y ee other} on the best of terms for some years. |loss of a somewhat ill-bred but ex-| Gray, there is a remedy which will whether the feast of Easter should be | church. rom e earliest ages the | church celebrations, it has be ¥ e s a , Ge lett rabi has’ ti idered 2 S been re-| «tt is a great pity,” said the judge,|tremely wealthy neighbor, who had| cure it even in the most advanced given a fixed date or movable as | egg has been considered as a symbol | yiyeq and given much of its ancient 2 f is help to h A ij before, and the decision was finally | of the beginning of life and therefore | syiendor. In this country all the| ttt old friends, as you seem to have} been very liberal in his help to her) stages. This .is what he says: sf i plendor. ountry al the! peen, should appear before me in such | country charities. Fz “T was helpless as a little babe. My reached in favor of the latter plan,!| was considered a very appropriate churches observe it with special mu- 5 BH Pah id. He was " ‘ as conforming to the ancient custom | present at the beginning of spring, | sic and the fai neg a way. Surely this is a case which Mr. X. is dead,” she said. He was | wife and I searched everything and —- of the church. Raster therefore is al-| when all life is budding out and be. | sic; 2nd te Mair Sex make it the spe-| might be settled out of court.” so good and kind and helpful to me in | read everything we could find about | ways the first Sunday after the full | ginning anew. The custom of “pick- ae eeu is geen with their!” «Tt can’t be done, judge,” answered | all sorts of ways. He was so vulgar, | Bright’s Disease, hoping that I would \ moon which happens upon or nert | ing eggs,” that is to say, of striking innit tears gc ae the plaintiff, moodily. “T thought ae Oat tees eet om, te Cound aa arid be able to ee imi ee After many } after the 21st of March (the equinox), | their points together, which is a ‘a- that myself, but the cur won't fight.” ne in London; but we shall meet him tie aedy eet ae nat ep \ unless the full moon occur on Sun-} vored amusement with boys in the Lily, Emblem of Spring. PL bisa A hs i iter Sb ca a ta | aie a f id the Rose. for the day when I decided to do so, | day, when Easter is the following} Eastern States, is also probably of Legends in plenty cluster about the whe Livan ° ——> Sunday. It must be remembered, | very ancient origin, and was probt-| lily; one legend of very ancient date ons See ese chailan tate venous the Hale: Agr, tits ene dy: Sy paged phase of however, that it is not the actual| ably practiced by the ancestors of | gives the supposed origin of “the lily,| But a story it pate Waa ahd “You insist on everybody having a| my case and in a short time I was | moon is the heavens nor even the | our juvenile Americans of to-day cen-| of all children of the spring the pal-| “77 ber Bead #8 Po een square deal?” able to get out of des and after a few ‘a mean moon of the astronomers that |turies ago. In Washington Easter | est; fairest, too, where fair ones are.” | Only a Rose, in {ea prusiied conoeee | “Yes; sir. Everything and every- | weeks treatment I was a strong, well | regulates the time of Easter, but ar | Monday is the great children’s day of | Long centuries ago angels coming os tis erence, oe ea aie Tepeat | body.” ; man... Dodd's Kidney Pills saved my | altogether imaginary moon, whose] the year. On that day thousands of | celestial visitants to earth, found it| Of two souls not far apart. “How about the Standard Oil com- on ao ale Ge oseaaasce periods are so contrived that the new | children congregate on the rolling| bare and gloomy in comparison with hat of the Lily, so pure, so sweet? | Pany?” : hagmaens! hss shih Soon he (calendar) moon always folows the |lawn behind the White House and | the eternal blooms of their home in Ang nit speak to the spelt Salers ots oll, wo might sive them 2c Disease “wil eure aly, teeeet dney: real new moon sometimes by two cr| while the Marine Band discourses | Paradise. They entered rocky tombs| 2 * fare it 1s telling, all others excell-|t1e the worst of it.’—Houston Chron- | Disease. Dodd's Kidney Pills are cer- even three days. The effect of this | lively music they. amuse themselves} and took the shining mantles off the| As it rests on the altar there. icle. eran fe ee Ecco tee ae is that the 14th of the calendar moon, | rolling eggs down the lawn. blessed dead and chan; Sonne apecgrsandas ghey acta ne is ged them to "Tis a Story so old, it so often has been given to the world. which had from the times of Moses been considered full moon for ecclesi- astical purposes, generally fell on the 15th or 16th of the real moon and D EFECTIVE PAGE All the week previous to Easter has been a series of commemoration in | the church, Thursday, Friday and Saturday being especially solemn fes- flowers. From this comes the beaut! ful and poetic superstition that on Easter morning in every lily bud is hidden an angel. ¥ t—ever old—ever new— ay ‘this glad Easter day unto all of us “pte is risen!” and ‘Peace be with fo aay —Marie F. Swifts There’s the Rub. If I could only acquire a nice pile of money I wouldn’t doa thing but travel. Skemer—Yes, but maybe the police wouldn’t do a thing but stop you. Those who complain that they don’t get all they deserve may be lucky that they don’t,