THE POWER IN THE HOME.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1029, 13 April 1894, Page 3

THE POWER IN THE HOME.

It is a, striking anomaly that the woman who moulds the mind of the prospective legislators of any country is nob considdrcd fit to vote for or against legislation, not even the legislation that directly affects woman and woman only. Man, being the stronger and therefore the more selfish animal, has decreed that the wife and the mother shall be ciphers, except in the conduct of their households, and, whether man is right or wrong in so doing, we challenge contradiction of the fact, even at the risk of being deemed illogical, that woman does not shine more in her simple rule at the fireside — in the quiet abnegation of petty pleasures — than she would in any public position. But this role of * household martyrs ' (and there are almost as many martyrs as there are households) can be over-acted, and it generally is ; not from any desire for effect on the part of the mother herself, but from the force of circumstances. In many houses in Democratic Australia ' the mother is the drudge of the family j — her work is never overtaken, her grown-up daughters practice a ' fugue or op,' while the prematurely aged woman darns the stockings till her eyes are dim, or bends ovor the stove or the wash-tub, till the usual backaches come. Then suddenly the martyr's machinery runs clown, and the thoughtless, careless children, and the father who is continually steeped in business anxiety, discover, that the' blooming mother of a few weeks ago in invalided, perhaps hopelessly. The never ending toil, the unceasing anxiety, has induced the terrible catalogue of ills known as female complaints, cases of which are as common in Australasia as Warner's Safe Cure, the one medicine which has acted up to its name in scores of thousands of instances, and which has stood the test of time and disease. Warntr's Safe Cure cures female complaints. All women should note well the fact that it does not pay to trifle with any ailment, however simple. There is no middle course in disease, and, in female trouble especially, you are either well or ill. Disease never stands still. You are daily better or worse. Mrs Hannah Woulfe, of Fielding, New Zealand, tells her own story of jaundice and liver trouble, supervening the ' trivial female complaint,' which is, unfortunately, too often allowed to cure itself. We give Mrs Woulfe's own words : — • Fielding, N.Z., Nov. 24, 1892.— Twelve months ago I was troubled with jaundice and liver troubles and consulted a doctor, but found no relief. I went on suffering great pain and had to lay up entirely, engaging a neighbor to do the housework and attend on me. I went to Wanganui Hospital and remained there seven weeks, but was turned out by the doctor, saying I would do as well at home as he could do nothing for me. When I came home I had still to take to my bed, sometimes five days a week. Having heard of Warner's Safe Cure, I thought I would give it a trial. After taking five bottles I was completely restored to health. In face, from the second bottle I recovered steadily, and am now hale and hearty. lam only too happy to be able to testify thus.