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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 40, 16 August 1919, Page 9

A successful dance was given in the Sydney-street Hall last evening hy the staff of the Vacuum Oil Proprietary, Ltd. The hall was unusually tastefully decorated, the work having a_ been done by the committee, which consisted of Mrs. Fuller and the Misses Joplin, Wyman, Campion, and Messrs. Cate, Chambers, Earashaw, Jansen, Pankhurst, and Gajpes. The chaperons were Mesdames Cate, Chambers, Earnshaw, Wood, Rarrop, White, and Glasgow. Miss Joplin (secretary) looked very becoming in white ninon, edged with pale pink rosebuds. Among many present were Misses Fabian, Wylie, O'Connor, Kennedy, La Roache (2), Mackie (2), France, Holloway, Gendall, Levy, Lacey, Major, Finlay,.- M'Clay, Greene, Casey, Wynne, and Brown. The supper was provided by Mrs. Oscar Johnson, and was served in a room adjoining the hall, the tables being daintily decorated with spring flowers and birch.

HOW TO STOP PAIN IN STOMACH. THE VALUE OF MAGNESIA AND HOT WATER, Generations of people have employed hot water as a soother, of pain in the stomach, but modern physicians and specialists have discovered and used successfully an addition which renders the hot water trebly 'efficacious. Hot water is still recommended in all cases of stomach pain, from whatever cause arising, but still better results are obtained if a little bisurated magnesia is added. Hot water attracts blood' to the painful part, and the bisurated magnesia neutralises the acid which is usually the underlying cause of, the pain. That is why such' excellent results follow combination of the two. Readers who are subject to' pain in the stomach, especially after eating, should try this hot water and magnesia recipe. It renders dieting quite unnecessary, for by slowly drinking half a glassful of hot water containing half a teaspoonful of bisurated magnesia immediately after meals, the dangerous stomach acids are destroyed, and food remains bland and sweet until perfectly digested. The bisurated' magnesia, which is extensively used in hospitals, can'readily be obtained from chemists everywhere; but to avoid confusion with the acetates, citrates, and ! oxides' of magnesia or equally unsuitable mixtures of bismuth and magnesia, it is important that bisurated should be, asked [ for very distinctly.—Advt..