THE TOMBOY. A Kind of Girl Who Became Extinct in the Last Century

It's a far cry from the sampler-working maiden of a hundred years ago to the athletic girl of today. The girl of a hundred years ago did not dare to be original in thought or action, or if she did was at once stamped as eccentric and strong-minded. Her mind was formed on safe principles. She was trained to household duties, and to accept the narrow limits in which she was to move as the natural, intellectual and physical bounds of a woman's capacity. If she revolted from cup and ball early in the century, or later from the mild delight of croquet and wanted to run and romp, she was invariably set down as " a regular tomboy." That was a very familiar term only a few years ago. Now one hardly hears it. Girls are encouraged to row and ride, to run and romp, in the interest of their own physical well-being, and for the general advantage of the mothers of the future.

THE ONE THING NEEDFUL.

Such girls make the healthiest and happiest of women, with one provision - they must begin womanhood aright. When the womanly function is first established it should be under perfectly healthy conditions, otherwise soon or late diseases of the womanly organista will result, and this opens the door to boundless suffering.

The first lesson which every girl should learn when she comes to womanhood is that her general health is inseparable from the local womanly health; that womanly disorders and derangements known now only to herself will in time publish themselves to all her sex, in the hollow cheek, dull eye and pain-creased brow. To the young woman, irregularity is only a form of physical discomfort. To the experienced, it is an indication of functional derangement which rails for prompt cure. It is neglect or delay at such times which often leads to the establishment of chronic diseases.

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IT MAKES WOMEN WELL AND KEEPS THEM WELL.

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MANY OTHERS THINK SO.

I think that your ' Medical Adviser is a fine book," writes Miss Flora I. Greer, of 107 Howe Street, Akron, Ohio, "and a book that everyone should own. If more girls would read it there would be healthier women and children than there are today." This great work, Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser, containing more than a thousand large pages and more than 700 illustrations, is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. There is no better popular medical work than the "Medical Adviser. " Send 31 one-cent stamps for the cloth-bound volume or only 21 stamps for the book in paper covers. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.