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Just a Funny Old Song Everybody Knows
WE sing, we sing, we sing of Lydia Pinkham," so go the words of an old song known on every college campus.
Old grads sing it at their class reunions.
The young people sing it when they gather around the piano at home on their college vacations.
And mother, listening, puts her book aside and joins in the chorus.
"How she saved, she saved, she saved the human race — " remember the words of the parody?
From laughing young lips that have never known the twist of pain it comes with gay abandon. Just a funny old school song everybody knows.
But to silver haired mothers who have run life's gauntlet, to women who have lain on the rack in childbirth, known the fiery ordeal of the "change" — these words bring grateful memories. To them it is much more than just a funny song.
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Lydia E. Pinkham was a real woman
The song is a parody. But Lydia E. Pinkham was a very real person. In fact hers is one of the best known names in the history of American women.
She began her work in the light of little knowledge. Her laboratory was a kitchen. Her compounding vat an iron kettle on a New England kitchen stove.
But today her work is being carried on under the banner of modern science.
And now her product is made in a great plant occupying six modern factory buildings.
Not a Patent Medicine
You may be surprised to know that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is not a patent medicine.
On the contrary it is a standard pro
For three generations one woman has told another how to go "smiling through" with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It helps Nature tone up the system, thus lessening the discomforts* which must be endured, especially during
The Three Ordeals of Woman
/. Passing from girlhood into womanhood. 2. Preparing for Motherhood. J. Approaching "Middle Age." *funclional disorders
prietary compounded to aid women in facing the three major ordeals of their sex. It is to be found in every reputable drug store.
We who carry on the work of Lydia Pinkham do not offer this Vegetable Compound as a panacea or a cure-all.
We do know it has been tested and approved by women of three generations. We do know that a million women have written to tell us it has been helpful during the three most difficult ordeals of their sex: adolescence, motherhood and "middle age."
More than a Million Letters of Grateful Testimony
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been advertised these many years. But no advertisement we have ever printed could compare with the word-of-mouth advertising from one grateful woman to another.
In our files are more than one million letters from women in every walk of life — letters on scented notepaper or on torn wrapping paper — letters from women who have known pain and have written to us without solicitation to tell us how helpful Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been to them.
If you are in need of help we can honestly advise you to give it a fair trial.
We know what it has done for others.
We have every reason to believe it will do the same for you. The Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, Lynn, Massachusetts, U. S. A.
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