In Case of Fire.

Manawatu Herald, 1 March 1898, Page 3

In Case of Fire.

» Your house takes fire. What burns first? The lightest and most iufiammabla stuff, of course — furniture, doors, »h Ives, floors, panels, and other woodwork. If it is a ■ton* or brick house the walli will probably remain sand ng— a melancholy sight. Wen not this a principle of universal

application Mr Mcedings ttOold never have compared himself to a skeleton, as Q6 does in the letter to which yoar attention in now invited. "In the tHe autumn of 1891," he sayi "I fell into* alow; weak state of health. My ordinary energy appeared to have gone ont of me. I alwajß felt tired and languid and couidu't account for it. NothiDg seemed to rest me. I was as tired in the morning as when I went to bed. I had a bud taste in the mouth, my appetite was poor,- and after meats I had a pain at my oheit and left aide. 4U 11 1 was in this condition until the Utn of March, 1892, and then I had to give up work. The reason was, I was too weak to work. In fact, I was so weak that it was •boat As xnnoh as. I could do to walk across the floor. Beßifles this I had a dry, backing cough ; and at nign6 I fJWOBt co the bedclothes ws?e vrat. Soroefttsej? • during the d»y cold, etea»»7 ?w«'> • break out all otsi* me. "I lost flesh rapid!?, uaul I y/m Hlig * skeleton. My muscles aeemed to fee shrunken and withered. There was no feeling of warmth in me ; it was as though my blood had gone jCooI and tbin< I .was too feeble and helpless to wash or drees myself, and people said I was wasting away, as though they expeoted to see the end of it presently. "I consulted two doctors and they gave me medicine, but it d d me no good. One day my autft, Mrs Ben ton, of Fianois Street, Walsall, called, and in the course of- talk she said that tn> medicine; that did her good when she. was ill was Mother Seigel's Curative Bj*up. Although it didn't look reasonable'^ to believe that it could cure a case as bkd as mine, never, rtjeless my wife got me, a bottle from Mr Grove, the chemist in Park Street, and I commenced taking it. Jn a few dnye I found myßelf moon better; my appetite, was better, and I had; gained a little strength. "To make the story short, I kept on • taking the Syrup and oontinued to get better. As soon as I could digest my food the night sweats asd (he cough abated, and in a few weeks I was able to gobaok to my work. That is two years ago, and Bince then I have been in good health for wbioh I have to thank Mother Seigel's Syrup, (signed). Arthur Thomas Meddings, 115, Farringdbn Street, Walsall, March 6th, 1694." In a fire, as we said, it is the light, inflammable stuff that burns first. That's why Mr Meddiugs got to be so ghastly thin. The flesh or fat is the fuel of the body. In health it keeps up the waimth and furnishes the power. And to keep up the fuel we mast eat Now, disease is a conflagration ; it tries to burn the house up, and often does it. And it always burns the flesh up, more or less of it, The fat goes first, the muscles, Ac, afterwaids. That's the way of it. About that time the tenant moves out. Our friend was well on towards that point. Bat it wasn't long disease that ailed him, albeit he had the cough and, the sweats. 1 bey go also with indigestion and dyspepßia— hiß real and only malady. He got feeble and thin because his disease wouldn't allow the storaaoh to digest food. Hence he consumed all the flesh he had stored up, and then (luckily for him) he began to take Mother Seig-l's Curative •-yiup, which set his stomach and liver right, and gave his victuals a chance to feed him. All the same, it is dangerous to let a fire get headway. When it is. in your body quench the first spark with Mother Seigel's Curaiive Syrup.