MRS. V. M. BLAKE,
Deep Water, W. Va.
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:
I began to dread the approach of Change of Life some years ago, as so many of my friends had been miserable for five or six years during that period and as I was not very strong and being subject to headaches and weakness, I felt that I did not have the strength to carry me through this dangerous period and had it not been for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, I feel that I would not have been alive to-day.
I began to take it about three years ago when I felt the change coming on and continued taking it for three months, then I did not take any for a couple of months, and began to feel so badly that I started to use it again, and then continued to take it for about six months out of every year for three years and am pleased to state that it has kept me free from sickness.
Very truly yours,
MRS. GEORGE SHEPHERD,
Berlin, Wis.
Vice-President Mothers' Club.
June 28, 1902.
I thought I would write and state my condition to you and ask if you think you can do me any good. I am fifty-five years old, never had any children. I came here from Brooklyn for my husband's health, he having consumption. I have always had good health, never any trouble with my menses, always regular until two or three months before my husband died, which was March 25, 1901. As soon as he died, I commenced and flowed constantly ever since. I know it must be the Change of Life. I did not worry about it for four or five months, then I had a doctor but he did me no good. I had another with the same result. Last May I had to go to New York and traveling I think was too much for me as I have been worse. I saw a doctor there and he wanted me to go to the hospital and have my womb curetted, but I did not feel like having that done. I never have any pain only once in a while a little backache. Please let me know if you think you can do me any good.
MRS. J. J. REARDON.