TNfERNATIOttAL FATLt^S PRESS ONLY NECESSARY TO TREAT STOMACH, SAYS COOPER a LIFE TO The new theory advanced by T. L. Cooper relative to the human stomal has attracted such widespread attention that the public in cities visited by DIHAQ the young man has been joined by Lydia E. Pinkham's many physicians in a discussion of his MOTO& COPYRICHT BY UtWEftWOCiTk UfoVMOOD beliefs and medicines. Vegetable Compound Mr. Cooper says human health is I HAVE just had a letter from a friend at Bonn dependent almost entirely upon the Chicago, 111.—"I was troubled with university, in whicn, among other things, he stomach. He says that no disease can Tailing and inflammation, and the docjtors mentions with a chastened joy (he belongs to be conquered without first alleviating said I could not another student corps) that the kaiser's old all stomach disorders. He further says jget well unless I corps, the Borussia, has been suspended and that most men and women of this generation an lhad operation. that the members are wearing extremely are half-sick owing to degenerate II knew I could not lengthy faces at being deprived for a time of the stom achs. And lastly, he claims a stand the strain of chance to get their scars. It seems that the Borussia that his New Discovery medicine will lone, so I wrote to you sometime ago had imprudently hazed one of their num rejuvenate the human stomach in 90 about my health days. ber. Unfortunately for the corps, they forgot and you told me that they were serving their military term under Cooper has been traveling from one ./hat to do. After military regulations and that in ragging the object city to another, conducting in each taking Lydia E. of their displeasure they were really assaulting a what he calls a campaign of education. Pinkham's Vegetable superior officer and defying discipline. This could not be For the past year he has met Compound and Purifier I am brooked, and the kaiser—who has just made the crown the public in the larger cities of the l~R1nnri to-day a well woman."—Mrs. William country, and his success has been prince's wife an officer a grade Aiirens, 988 W. 21st St., Chicago, 111. phenomenal. Thousands of people have higher than her husband, with a Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, flocked to his headquarters wherever keen appreciation of the jest that made from native roots and he has gone, and the sale of his medicine the crown prince must herbs, contains no narcotics or harmful has been beyond anything of the drugs, and to-day holds the record kind ever before witnessed. for the largest number of actual cures Possibly the most interesting feature of female diseases of any similar medicine in the country, and thousands of of the attention this young man voluntary testimonials are on file in has attracted is what his army of the Pinkham laboratory at Lynn, followers, whom he has converted tohis Mass., from women who have been beliefs through his medicines, have cured from almost every form of to say on the subject. The following, female complaints, inflammation, ulceration,displacements,fibroid statements are from two well-known tumors, residents of Chicago and Boston, respectively, irregularities, periodic pains,backache, and the enthusiasm of Indigestion and nervous prostration. Every such suffering woman owes it to these is characteristic of Cooper's admirers herself to give Lydia E. PinkhamJs generally. a vegetable Compound trial. Mrs. H. B. Mack, of 3201 State If you would like special advice street, Chicago, says: "I have been about your case write a confidential suffering for 12 years from a combination letter to Mrs. Pinkham, at of stomach trouble, catarrh and Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free* constipation. I had a gnawing pain and always helpful. in the pit of my stomach, a sort of a dull pain that I could not quite understand. Then there was a dull headache, Newspapers in Switzerland. and my mind seemed to be wandering Switzerland has a total population continually. I could not eat, of 3,500,000 and there are 1,384 periodicals and what little solid food I did eat I in the country, or one publication could not retain on my stomach. I to every 2,715 persons. Of the tried every remedy I could think of, publications giving special attention and also tried out a number of patent to news and politics, 472 are printed medicines, but without any apparent In German, 101 in French, 21 in Italian result. It was through one of my and but one in Romansch. The religious friends that I heard of Cooper's preparation, publications include 60 German and I immediately decided to Protestant, 40 French Protestant, 24 try some of it. It is two weeks since Cathoiic, nine Missions, two Jewish I took my first dose of it, and I feel and three Free Thought. The Swiss like a new woman. The headache newspapers have limited telegraph services, as compared with newspapers seems to have disappeared, and the pain in my stomach, along with it. in other countries, but they are, The medicine is worth its weight in as a rule, well edited.—Consular Report. gold, and I want to thank Mr. Cooper for what he has done for me." A Natural Question. schlagers begin to play about their Mr. Edwin F. Morse, of 20 Oakley James J. Corbett, in the smoking heads a close watch is kept upon consequently obey his wife, a jest that the German street, Dorchester, a suburb of Boston, room of the Mauretania, praised the them in case they flinch or draw back people do not relish—put his foot down heavily, and says: "For three years I had not a "style" of Jim Jeffries. their heads. If they do they disgrace there will be no dueling in this corps for some time. well day. My stomach was in frightful "It's a neat style," he said "neat, their corps. Finally one sword lands The kaiser, who by reason of his noble blood was not shape the mere thought of food quick, to the point. It gets there like and a sprinkle of blood appears. If permitted to take part in the duels of his corps, the would nauseate me, and I really had a Ihe remark of a little girl who said it is not likely to cause a severe scar Borussia, of Bonn university, nevertheless is stated on horror of anything to eat. All solid to the minister in the course of a the fight continues until at last a cunning one occasion to have doffed his dignity and under a food would cause me extreme indigestion, quite interminable call: snick does the trick. The surgeon pledge of secrecy from his fellow students to have bloating and gas on my stomach, 'Did you forget to bring your amen who is at hand is allowed to try played his part. He has never lost his sympathy with and nothing tasted right. Some time •with you, doctor?'" his prentice hand—he is often a first the aim and object of this traditional custom, which to ago I got some of this Cooper's medicine, year "med"—and the wound is bound the uninitiated seems a survival of the brutal days of What It Meant. about which there is so much up or sewn. Then an adjournment is medieval times, but which in reality has a specific end. "Robbie," asked the school mistress, talk. I actually feel as well and strong made and the evening is spent with What football is to the American student, rugby and "what does history mean when it says as a boy ever since the first bottle. beer and song. The wounded one boxing to the English, so is the duel to the German—a that in the country's pioneer days Every sign of stomach trouble has disk receives his congratulations and test of endurance and a lesson in keeping an equable some of the settlers didn't have a roof appeared, and I have a hearty appe* stalks about in an ecstacy of joy. If temper and restraint under provocation. The kaiser, over their beads?" tite and eat three square meals everything he thinks his scar is not going to be with a eye to the championship of personal and national "It means that in them days the seems to taste good. Anyone beautiful enough he may keep the honor, has expressed an opinion that this custom should "woman couldn't afford any merry widow who knows what chronic indigestion wound open for days and prevent its not die out and that there was nothing equal to it for hats!" is can appreciate what this means to rapid healing. the steeling or hardening of the leaders, military, commercial me. I consider this the most remarkable But there are other duels besides Doing Two Things at Once. and professional, of the empire. medicine I ever heard of." A man hurried into a quick-lunch those of the sword. There is the honorable I never enter a car and hang by a strap without Cooper's New Discovery is sold by restaurant recently and called to the drinking trial, where he who looking at the back of the man in front of me and speculating all druggists. If your druggist cannot waiter: "Give me a halh sandwich!" succeeds longest in delaying his descent as to his profession or his nationality. The clothes supply you, we will forward you the "Yes, sir,''' said the waiter, reaching to below the table is crowned. indicate very little—they are American and well fitting, for the sandwich. "Will you eat it or name of a druggist in your city who As it is treason to refuse to drink a but the instant their owner turns his face you exclaim take it with you?" will. Don't accept "something just as toast and as there are toasts all night, inwardly, with a sense of mental satisfaction, at having "Both," was the unexpected but obvious good."—The Cooper Medicine Co., Dayton, the president has a busy time supervising found something definite—German. There is no reply—Ladies' Home Journal. Ohio. the proper filling of each glass. mistaking the telltale scar that runs from eye OLD UNIVERSITY BU1LD/NC3. J-fEL/DELBERG It is quite legitimate to make room to ear or decorates his chin with a puckered A Pause in Devotions. A GOOD CHANGE ridge. are schlagers and are the scar formers. On the for more beer. When the smoke is thickest and "Mabel!" called her father, outside -A Change of Food Works Wonders. the songs have died to a hoarse babble it is time other hand to wipe out an insult the "sine-sine" Not all Germans wear honorable scars, however. her bedroom door. There was no answer, duel is resorted to. That means that the bodies to make the count. The badge is the prerogative of the student so he called again. Still no reply. The wrong food and drink causes a are left "without" almost any protection and the Peace has her victories, and no doubt to the of Bonn, Heidelberg, Leipsic, Freiburg or He pushed open the door, which lot of trouble in this world. To swords are sabres, which have no limitation of students of the Fatherland this is a laudable species the other German universities and as they average was not completely shut, and reaching change the food is the first duty of use. When the couple face each other and the of peaceful victory. 1,500 students each, the class is limited. for the button, turned on the lights. every person that is ill, particularly The kaiser's edict will not prevent dueling at Then he saw Mabel. She was kneeling from stomach and nervous troubles. Bonn, however. There are still other corps, each at the side of her-bed in her nightgown, As an illustration: A lady in Mo. has, BERLIN'S "NEW BREW" with its distinctive name, cap, rules and regulations son when the Bavarian breweries announce the in the attitude of prayer—the with her husband, been brought around and clearly defined etiquette, chiefly of the brewing of their new beer, an announcement attitude, that is, as to kneeling. But health again by leaving oft coffee •to higher classes. Each university has its fraternities, which thrills the heart of every German and ITHIN 20 minutes of Berlin is the little she had raised her head at the interruption and some articles of food that did with a membership of a limited number, which is celebrated in every city of the empire, suburb of Hallensee. Delightfully picturesque, and paused i:i\ her devotions not agree with them. They began using seldom exceeding 30 or 35 and to join one of the the Berliners throng the "Terraces" every night to blaze at him with & face flushed it is a strong rival of Potsdam Postum and Grape-Nuts food. She better known ones is a much sought honor. The during the celebration. Berliners by no means with impatience: as a favorite haunt for tourists says: monopolize it, but patrons and enthusiasts from object of those clubs is to all appearance of a "Gee whiz, daddy! Can't a woman and pleasure seekers. It is best "For a number of years I suffered convivial nature, as beer and wine drinking enter all the cities of northern Germany flock about say her prayers?" known throughout all Germany for its 'With stomach and bowel trouble largely into their ceremonial observances, but its standard like crowds of holiday seekers in the famous Terraces of Hallensee, the nearest thing Then she bowed her head again, which kept getting worse unutil I was they are really to promote camaraderie and to Paris or London season. piously, and daddy, properly rebuked, Germany has to a dreamland or the midway very ill most of the time. About four enable the too often lonely student to form friendships Away with the proverbial waiter! Girls and slipped noiselessly away. plaisance of a world's fair, the Berlin correspondence years ago I left off coffee and began which will endure through life and be of young women are brought up from Munich and of the New York Times says. The taking Postum. My stomach and masonic service to them. Besides the specific Pleasures of Wisdom. other Bavarian cities especially for the occasion. scale of the terrassen, as it is called, is very different 'bowels improved right along, but I was corps there are other bodies composed of the "Your boy likes to go to school better Dressed in the Bavarian peasant costume, consisting from that of a place like Dreamland or .-so reduced in flesh and so nervous that middle class students, such as the handmannschaft, than he used to," said the relative. of a short bodice, full skirts flowing from Luna park, for instead of being a row of fantastic the least thing would overcome me. which was the earliest order of student padded hips, small, gay colored caps poked buildings or variety shows, it is simply a restaurant "Then I changed my food and becan fraternities. "Yes," answered Mr. Bliggins. "He's coquettishly on one side the head and a white of vast proportions situated upon a lake, using Grape-Nuts in addition to getting old enough to enjov learning The duel may have its origin in any quarrel blouse with very loose sleeves, they give an added yet at certain seasons of the year it is essentially Postum. I lived on these two principally or difference of opinion, but usually has not. It touch to the gay and hilarious scenes of this a lot of things so that he can come the same sort of a place, merely a resort for for about four months. Day is a thing of etiquette and is used to prove a student. famous celebration. Three or four Tyrolean or home and dazzle me with his superior pleasure seekers. by day I gained in flesh and strength The more duels one fights the bigger swagger Bavarian peasant bands afford the music, pleasing knowledge." But in the early spring it is the seat for Berlin until now the nervous trouble has entirely one may display, and a scar is a sign that at first, but soon becoming a pandemonium of the famous bock beer fests, a truly German disappeared and I feel that I one has come out of the ordeal with honor and of sounds as the evening's supply of "new beer" institution, a tradition, in fact, and as far you eat The more -owe my life and health to Postum and is a silent and speaking testimony to the bearer's becomes diminished. In fact, the bands are one removed from the atmosphere of a Coney island 4*rape-Nuts. courage. The larger the strips of sticking of the chief attractions and without them the as the sun is from the earth. There is nothing "Husband is 73 years old and he was plaster which hold a. cheek together or a sliced fest would be of little amusement. Some have artificial then, no American tourists to give a Quaker Oats troubled for a long time with occa«ional only zithers, while others have the full list of nose in position the higher one goes in the affection jarring note to the party. It is a time when the cramps, and slept badly. Finally of the frauleins, and what is the world without brass instruments, but each has at least one phenomenally German is not afraid to be seen at play and I prevailed upon him to leave off coffee "Wein, weib und Gesang?" stout man with an equally phenome proudly permits his inherent passion for Bavarian nal capacity for the new beer, whose duty it is and take Postum. He had stood out When a duel is arranged a pretext having beer to come to the surface, like the froth the better your health been contrived by the simple expedient of a member to harass the bass drum with more physical than for a long time, but after he tried on the beverage itself. musical strength. Postum for a few days he found that of the corps clumsily treading on the tail of As a restaurant the "Terraces" is unique, not will be. lie could sleep and that his cramps a dog owned by a member of another corps, or only from its size and capacity, accommodating Such efforts are the signal for uproarious by some such obvious excuse, the combatants are disappeared. He wae satisfied and has as it does some 14,000, but also from its fantastic shouts and jibes. In all there is the best ,of good aiever gone back to coffee. swathed with bandages on the body and right yet artistic architecture. It is an interesting example nature and fellowship, nothing in the least obscene Practical experiments "I have a brother in California who arm, the head and eyes and throat are protected of what a creative American mind, the is ever suggested or tolerated. lias been using Postum for several and the only visible spot left are the cheeks, chin architect being A. F. Lange, absorbing the Teutonic The spread of Americanism in Europe is well and nose. with athletes years his whole family use it also because atmosphere and traditions, can produce. evidenced there at Hallensee, where an American The swords are razor-edged at the point and, they have had such good results •Upon looking at the photographs of the "Terraces" architect has built the temple to so sacred unlike the French dueling sword, which is used from it." show Cu aker Oats one would think they were taken in Assyria, a fest as the celebration of the brewing of the in foil fashion, they are meant simply to make Look in pkgs. for the little book, "The Egypt or some other, oriental country, for, new beer. Surely no one will deny that Americanism, a downward nick, which serves to form the scar, Road to Wellville." "There's a Reason." indeed, the Assyrian theirik runs throughout the an ism more to be feared than Lutherism to be the greatest without mucn further damage than a copious entire architecture. and the reformation, has penetrated the inner Ever read the above letter? A new •n* appear* from time to time. They stream of blood and a sore face for a bit. Those most depths of traditional Europe. In the season of the bock beer fegts, the sea­ strength maker. ate genuine, true, and full Of llWBU 56 tetcrcst-