Happiest of All.

Manawatu Herald, 30 June 1896, Page 3

Happiest of All.

* Thebb is no time in the twenty-four hours when one ought to feel so thoroughly satisfied and content as immediately after a good, hearty meal. And all healthy persons do feel so. The body s demands have been met, and we are easy and comfortable, as though we had paid off an old dun and had money left. We are accessible, humane, and good natured. Then, if ever, we will grant a request without grumbling. " True benevolence," says a crusty old friend of mine, "is located in a capable stomach recently filled." Yes, but what of the inoapable stomachs of which there are so many ? — stomachs that disappoint and plague their owners, till the act of feeding, so delightful to others, becomes an act to avoid the necessity of which they arc almost willing to die? Ah, that is quite another thing. These poor souls are they who say, as Miss Wallaco Bays in this letter of her.*, •' I was no longer to be counted among those who have pleasure in eating. Far from it, As

for me I was afraid to eat. I felt the nwl of food, of course — the weakness and sink, tag that accompanied abstinence — but what woa Itodo ? The moment I ate, my distress and pain commenced. No matter how light the repast waa, nor how careful I was not to huiry in taking it, the result i was the Fame. The distress and gnawing f pains followed, with discomfort in the chest, and a sense of choking, as if some biti of food bad lodged there and were irritating me. " So objectionable and regnpnant to me was the act of eating that for days together I didn't touch a morsel of solid food, sab* sisting entirely on milk and soda water. Owing to this enforced lack of nourishment I got extremely weak, and about as thin as 1 could be. 1 must not forget to say that this happened to me, or rather it began to happen in July, 1886, when I was living at Wellington, in Shropshire. It came on. as you may say, gradually and not with any sudden Of aCtfute symptoms. I found mys»lf low, languid, and tired. Then dame the failure of my appetite and the other things I have named. i " I took the usual medicines for indigestion 1 , bat tiler had Ho good effect; After six months' experience of this kind of miftery I read in a book about Mother Seigel's Syrup as a remedy for this disease and got a bottle from Mr Bates, the chemist) in Wellington. Having used it a few j days t felt a great relief, and when I had a consumed two bottles t was entirely Well. Since then I have heartily recommended Mother Seigel's Syrup to many friends, who have invariably been cured) as I was. ¥ou have my permission to publish, rfly letter, if you desire to do so. (Signed) Minnie Wallace, Nurse, The Union Workhouse, O'dham, February 22nd, 1895. In a communication dated January Bth, UQS, Mrs Henrietta McCallam, of 40, ' Downsfield Road, Walthamstow, nearLoti- - don, states that her daughter Emma fell in the spring of 1886 with the same symptoms described by Miss Wallace. She ] craved food, yet, when it was placed before her, she tamed from it almost With loath' ing. "As time Went on," so runs the mother's letter, •' my daughter became so Weak she could hardly walk . Neither home tma'ioiflos nor those of the doctors did any good. Her sufferings Continued y for eight years. " In June, 1C94, she began taking Mother SeigePs Syrup, of whioh we had just read in a little book that was left at the house. j> In a week sLt'was better, and in less than two months she was enjoying better health . than ever before. She has since ailed nothing, and can rat any kind of food, (Signed) (Mrs) Henrietta McCallam." "Happy," pings Homer " were they who fell under the high walls of Troy." Happier j ara they who have never fallen under the crushing weight of indigestion or dyspepsia. Happiest, perhaps, of all are they who have ] been lifted up by Mother Seigei'g remedy i sod plaoed where onoe again they oan eat, drink, and be merry. And if all these could be gathered together they would make a greater host than the Greek pest ] ever dreamed of.