Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1888 — A Woman's Confession. [ARTICLE]

A Woman's Confession.

“Do you know, Mary, I once actually contemplated suicide”? “You horrify me, Mrs. B. Tell me about it.” “I was suffering from chronic weakness. I believed myself the most unhappy woman in the world. I looked ten years older than I really was, and I felt twenty. Life seemed to have nothing in it worth living for.” “I have experienced all those symptoms myself. Well?” “Well, I was saved at the eleventh hour from the commission of a deed which I shudder to think of. A friend advised me to take Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescriptton. I did so. In an incredibly short time I felt like a new being. The ‘Prescription’ cured me, and I owe Dr. Pierce a debt of gratitude which I can never repay.” A man with a hatchet countenance usually sharpens it with his profile.