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Things Slowly Learned. _ *- There is a man in Scotland who used to write many readable and instructive things. He signed himself •• A Country Parson," and a bright parson he is. One of his essays is entitled, "Things Slowly Learned," a good line of thought for anybody. Well, here is one of the things slowly learned— that disease doesn't jump on a man like a wild cat out of a tree, but develops from seeds and conditions, just as roses and weeds do. We who write and print the essays of which these lines are one, have said this a hundred times ; but all the people don't eeem to have thoroughly grasped the idea yet. For if Mr Theodore Treasure alone had done so, he wouldn't have suffered ten years from attacks of rheumatic fever. In November, 1891, he saya he had a fearful time with it. He tells us in a letter ihat he had dreadful pains pll over his body, and was so sore he couldn't bear anything to touch him. Even the bedclothes hurt him, like a feather against a sore eye. "I got little or no sleep," he says, " tossing all the night long, and trying to get ease by a shift of position. " I had a foul taste in the mouth, and spat up a great quantity of slimy phlegm. My appetite left me, and the little food I forced down gave me great pain at the chest and sides. For five months I was confined to my room, most of the time unabb to leav« my b«d, and what I suffered

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Manawatu Herald, 29 March 1898, Page 3

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267

Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Manawatu Herald, 29 March 1898, Page 3

Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Manawatu Herald, 29 March 1898, Page 3

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