Nostalgia.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 348, 8 January 1903, Page 5

Nostalgia.

iS ! ostal«iit is noi an English word. Unfortunately we have &o word iu our language which coavßys precisely the same meaning hence its use In this place. " Homesick* ness " won't do, for that may be taken to signify disgust with one's home a desire to"leave it, whereas nostalgia means the longing or pining for one's original home and a renewal of the sweet companionship of " the old familiar faces." Nostalgia is ever prevalent in newly-settled countries, but its symptoms are not defined with sufficient clearness to allow of its classification as a distinct ailment. Like other forms of mental worry, it not unfrequently produces suffering of a kind with which everybody is more or less familiar.

When two years ago Mr T, Blamires, of 46 Jeffery's Street, North Shore, Sydney, N.S.W., began to suffer from indigestion, had it been possible for him to have inhaled the delightful sea breezes of Scarborougd and feasted his eyes on the fresh greenness of the Yorkshire hills, he would dpubtless have escaped much, but; not all, of the misery attending that complaint. But Mr Blamires'duty kppt him far from his native England. " While in Queensland durinp June, 1900," says Mr Blamires, "my occupation obliged me to constantly travel through the bush districts of that State. The coarse fare provided at the bush hotel combined with the strain and worry inseparable from travelling through those thinly-populated districts disordered me svstem and brought on a severe attack of indigestion. For several months I suffered greatly from tbe dreadful malady some of mv symptoms being distension of the stomach after eating, gnawing pains at my chest, palpitation of the heart, and an occasional attack of diarrhoea alternating with periods of constipation, resulting generally iu extreme nervous debility. I was advised to try the hot water cure, and did so, but found it powerless to benefit me; and the numerous mixtures prescribed by various doctors and chemists, which I took fi om time to time were attended with no better result. At one time I feared that I was suffering from heart disease, and to satisfy myself I consulted a dootor in Brisbane. Aiter studying my case with great thoroughness, the Brisbane doctor asserted that my heart was not uffectc' and that my trouble—was a severe attack o r indigestion. His diagonal was cow t yet his treatment entirely failed to touch my complaint. " While T was in this deplorable state of hea'th peveral persons advised me to try Mother °eigel'B Curative Syrup, stating that they had themselves been cured of indigestion by it; but for a long time I gave no heed to what they said, preferring, if

J possible, to find a remedy iu ruy own'way. i When, however, by repeated failures it became clear that I unable to do flnVl* aetermiued to give Mother SeigelVCurative »y«»1> » trial With do great hope of any better result than had attended my former eaorts, I bought a bottle from a storekeeper, ana after taking a few doses of it was • agreeably surprised to find that it was doing me Rood Eejoicedat this unexpected good lortune, I determined to continue its use, kii nd h y the time I fl ad taken four bottles I was thoroughly cured of my trouble and felt like a new man. In all honesty and with the utmost confidence I heartly recommended Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup to all who suffer from m ü ßtlon and its kindred complaints. My business oocasions me to travel throughout the Australian States, and since my experienco of its efficacy, I should be sorry ever to be unprovided with it." More convincing a tearimouy than that of this senial Yorkshireman it would be hard indoed'to find.