Doing a Day's Washing.

Manawatu Herald, 2 September 1897, Page 3

Doing a Day's Washing.

Of ill the duties that fall to the lot of the housewife whose means do not permit of her indulging in the luxury of a paid •' help," perhaps the most cordially detested is " washing." But there are some people who make light of even this laborious task, as will be seen by the perusal of our reporter's interview with Mrs Mary Brown of 71 Simmons-street, Enmore :— " I have called, Mrs Brown," said our reporter, "to ascertain the truth of the rumour that has reached us of your having recently snffered from a severe attack of rheumatism." " It is quite true, but I am now happy to relate that I feel as well as I ever did. I have been suffering on and off from rheumatism for the last five years, and the slightest change in the weather used to give me most awful twinges. It chiefly •ffeojM my arms, and I can assure yon,

~ ;, j,,, „, ',| ,' i - i — — — —^«^ sir, that it took me all my time to do my hair. As to : lifting this tub, that was a matter of slieer impossibility. If it hacT not been for some of my friends I could never have gotten through my household duties. This complaint appeared to affect my entire system, and as to the money I have spent in dootors' advice and so called remedies, why it makes me positively disgusted t<3 think of. I began, to, think thai if my sufferings continued life was not worth living. I remember one day, as I was sitting by the fire and endeavouring to employ my mind by reading the • Evening News,' that an advertisement caught my eye headsd 'Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People ' cures Rheumatism, Soiatica, &o. Now having wasted so much money already, I was at first loth to try any more advertised medioines, but I thought in for a penny in for a pound, so I invested in three boxes of this specific" " I hope you were careful to ask for Dr Williams' Pink Pills ?" " I took particular notice to do that, for I had read of so many worthless imitations that I was careful to ask for, and obtain, the genuine article." "We think it highly probable, Mrs Brown that before long some of the compounders of these worthless imitations will be spending time in seclusion, with the accompanying eocentricties of diet, official garb, and escort." " And indeed it would only serve them right. Brown (my husband) laughed at me when I told him I was going in for a course of Dr Williams' Pink" Pill', and said, « Oh, you are going to chuck away some more money, are you ?' " I said ' Yes, I am,' and right glad am I that I ran the risk of ' chucking away some more money,' for lam happy to tell you that they have done me all the good in the world. Talk about the. new woman, why I feel now a brand new woman, and my husband only this morning said to me • Well, you certainly look the • pink ' of perfection now. I suppose it is your Pink Pilh that have done it. 1 And so it is. Not only have I lost my rheumatio pains, but ray appetite has returned, and I can now enjoy my food. In fact my appetite is po good that Brown says I will eat him out of house and home." ! " How many boxes have you taken, Mrs Brown ?" " I have had seven boxes in all, and I have so much belief in them that I intend always to keep a box by me, and I shall recomjrnend them to all my friends. You are quite at liberty to publish this statement, as I believe in giving credit to whom credit is due." Our reporter then withdrew, and re- ! fleeted as he walked slowly away that here at least was another case in which the many virtues of this marvellous preparation had been exhaustively and conclusively illustrated. Dr Williams' Pink Pills are not like other medicines, and their effeots are permanent. Nothing else is so prompt in pulling up the system when, from some temporary depression or otherwise, tone is needed. They have oured more than fiftyfive hundred cases of diseases arising from impoverished blood, suoh as aneemia, pale ana sallow complexion, musoular weak* depression of spirits, loss of appetite, palpitation of the heart, shortness of breath, pains in the baok, nervous headaohe, los 9 of memory, early decay, all forms of female weakness, hysteria, paralysis, looomotor ataxy, rheumatism and soiatica, scrofula, rickets, hip-joint diseases, chronio erysipelas, consumption of the bowels and lungs. The genuine pills are sold only in I wooden boxes, about two inches in length, in a white wrapper with the full name, Dr 'Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, I printed in red. They are never sold in bulk, or from glass jars, and any dealer who offers substitutes in this form should ibe avoided. In case of doubt it is better to send direot to the Dr Williams* Medicine Company, Wellington, N.Z , enclosing the pnoe, 39 a box, or six boxes for 15s 9d. These pills are not a purgative, and they contain nothing that could injure the most delicate.