Are Women Degenerating.

Manawatu Herald, 24 July 1897, Page 3

Are Women Degenerating.

Foxtoh, July 24th, 1897. To the Editor, Sib,— ln these days of ever-increasing competition, when the struggle for existence has become more intense and earnest than it has ever been before in the world's history, the question a? to whether women should enter into the pursuit?, and assume the vocations, hitherto regarded as exclusively manly, is one of the utmost importance to both sexes. It is not my intention in this short letter, however, to go into this question again, for it has already been discussed in all its aspects, and with g=eat freedom, by many of the greatest thinkers of the day. That women do compete, and successfully too, with men is a faot most | emphatically proved. But the question which is of the greatest importance to us at the present moment is : Are women physically capable of sustaining the great efforts now required of them both in their home life with its worries and cares, or in the outside world of business and pleasure ? Alas t we have not far to seek for the answer. It is written too plainly in the faces and forms of the women and young girls We meet every day in our streets. Pale faces,.whioh should bear the bloom of health, and dull, expressionless eyes, which should beam with life and hope, tell their own tale; and we know our women are paying the penalties due to diseased con. stitutions, either inherited or resultant from the artificial modss of liviug and the unhealthy foods of the day. The climate of this country too, with its sudden changes from heat to cold, its dust storms, and its enervating winds is in itself a great strain on the female constitution. It is, then, an undoubted faot that the women of today are physically degenerating, and therefore the interesting particulars contained in the following letter, received recently from Miss Adeline Bell, of Napier, proving as they do the marvellous curative powers of Dr Williams Pink Pills in all ailments of the female sex, should prove interesting to all readers. This lady gives the following graphio description of heft ailments. She says: "I was troubled with cold hands and feet, palpitation of the heart, constant feelings of weariness, headaches, loss of appetite, lack of energy, and also swollen feet and legs. The symptoms first appeared about three years ago. Two doctors were consulted about my case, and medicines were used, but without avail. I now wish to thank you for the benefit I have derived from your highly-valued Dr Williams' Pink Pills. They have done me every good, and I am now quite another person in health. I can recommend your pills to anybody." In conclusion it may be added that this wonderfnl medioine has cured numbers of people, not only in Australia, but all over the world, of Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lumbago, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, and other ailments.— l am, Sir, Tours, etc, " PRO BONO PUBLICO."