What Emperor was this P

Manawatu Herald, 12 November 1895, Page 3

What Emperor was this P

He was one of the greatest monarch* that ever ruled in Europe. He was always at war, yet— but wait; let us take one thing at a time. Be was an enormous eater. He breakfasted at five on a fowl seethed in milk and [dressed with sugar and spices. After this be went to sleep again. He dined at twelve, always partaking of twenty dishes. He supped twice ; first early in the evening and again about one o'clock — the latter the most solid meal of the four. After meat h« at* a great quantity of pastry and sweets, washing them down with vast draughts of beer and wine. Then he woold gorge himself on sardine omelettes, fried sausages, eel pies, pickled partridges, fat capons, &0., &c. Finally he abdicated, did this omnivor«u Emperor, and a friendly courtier thus described the power that compelled him to 4ft.it *' 'Tis a most truculent executioner," Mid the orator ; it invades the whole body torn bead to foot. It contracts the nerves irith anguish, it freezes the marrow, it oonvertf ths fluids of the joints into chalk, and pauses not until it has exhausted the body and conquered the mind by immense tertnte." 8» W ¥ P'PP I ** !» *h» »•»*• »"»». k4t

knees, ana" hatids, and ddvereu 1 withehrorllc skill et-uptiOnst while his stdinach dti* Gasioned him constant suffering; He wfte a wreck at ail age. when be should still have been active and vigoroils; This is not fiction, it is history } tfithotit a syllable of exaggeration. How many of our readers will write and tell us what man this was ? A thousand, no doubt. Alack-a-dayl however. Not kings and emperors alone are thus afflicted. Great hosts of us travel the same road. We are not usually gluttons as this royal gentleman was, but people who eat sparingly often have the same malady* Corttmottly they inherit a tendency to it. On the level of this dreadful disease the rich and the poor, the great and the small, meet together. Speaking of an experience of her own, a woman says : "My hands became stiff and numb. There seemed to be no feeling in them. I was so crippled that I could not even cut a round of bread. A little later it attacked my legs and feet, the soles of the latter being very tender and sore. The pain was so severe that I often sat down and cried on account of my sufferings and my helplessness. I used rubbing oils and embrocations) but got no relief. In this way I went on month after month, never expecting to be well again, t felt the first signs of illQe3B in February, 1330. At first I had merely a bad taste in the mouth, no appetite, and was low, tired, and languid. Following this came the agonies of rheumatism, as I have said. I owe my recovery to a suggestion of my husband's. He advised me to try Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and got me a bottle from W. Simpson's, in North Street. After taking it for a fortnight My hands got their right feeling, and 1 suffered no more from rheumatism nor from indigestion and dyspepsia, whioh I now understand to be the cause of rheumatism. From that time to this I have been in the best of health. (Signed) (Mrs) Elizabeth Ann Cook, Southwell Lane, North Street, Horncaatle, Lincolnfbire, February Ist, 1893." "In the year 1878," writes another, " rehunmtism attacked me, one joint after another. The pains were all over me, although the Worst was in one knee. For two years 1 suffered with it — the doctor's medicines doing no good. In 1881 I read in a little book that rheumatism was c used by indigestion and dyspepsia, and that the trve cure for it was Mother Seigei's Syr Up. This proved to be true, as after taking three bottles I knew no more of stomach disorder nor rehumatism. I have since recommended this wonderful remedy to hundreds of person 8. (Signed) (Mrs) E. Schofield, 10, West Hill, Southampton Street, Beading, Ootober 26, 1892." The great Emperor was driven to abdication by rheumatism and gout, caused by his ruined digestive powers. His outraged stomach filled him with poison from top to toe. Yet he never lost his appetite, which was all the worse for him. No! long afterwards he died, having asthma and gravel, with the other consequences of dyspepsia. But one needs not to be a gourmand to have dyspepsia, with its trailing troubles. Any one of fifty causes may provoke it. Watch out for the earliest symptoms and arrest them at once by using the Syrup. It stops the mischief on the spot where it begins, and then purifies the blood. By the aid of common sense and Mother Seigel the Emperor might have stayed on his throne, might he not ? Yes, but unluckily she wasn't bom in time to help him.