SONNET ON STOMACH ACHE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 29, 29 October 1918, Page 6

SONNET ON STOMACH ACHE

FEDERAL I'OSTJIASTER-GENERAL AS A POET. Mr. Webster, the Postmaster-General, is anxious' to go down to posterity ns William Webster the poet (says the Melbourne correspondent of the Sydney, "Sun"). And a particularly special 'kind of 4ioet nt that. Ofhev poets are content to sing 6011KS about "the heart," that great repository of secrets and all wishes and desires. Poet Wdbster writes sonnets fourteen lines in length coircorning the liver, the kidneys, and,the bladder. Taking'a littlo time off during the process of evolving that great psalm, "Three Years in the Post Office," Mr. Webster concerned himself about the health of his politicnl friends, and courted the muse. During the week members of the Federal Parliament have received the following "mental tonic" endorsed "with compliments" and enclostd in the official envelope of the Postmaster-General's Department;— ■ ' THE ELIXIR OF LIFE If you would good health secure, One pint of water, hot and pure,/ Absorb ouch morn ins, when you rise, This tonic- which disease defies. Tho stomach, kidneys, bhuluor, gall, This purifies and cleanses nil;- . Combustion drives foul matter put, Nat;ire rejoices at its rout. ' Its cost is nil, its value great, Cast not aside nor underrate. '■» To fellow-members, one and all, Neglect it not, 'tie Nature's call. For years I've scarce known ache or pain, 'Twill help you to good health maintain. Jour well-wisher, William Webster,