In a Third-Class Carriage

Manawatu Herald, 9 August 1898, Page 3

In a Third-Class Carriage

Early in February of this year (1894) I was travelling in a third-class carriage in the neighbourhood of Glasgow. At a station two women entered the compart meat in which I was seated. One was a girl, gaudily dressed ; the other a typical working woman. She had no hat or bonnet, and wore a stuff pet'icoat, with a shawl wrapped round her. She was the picture of rude, robust health. The girl asked how her companion was remarking ti.at she had heard she had been far from well. •" Deed, but I was," responded the elder woman, " I thocht I waa at deith's door." "Ah say, what iike was the matter wi' ye?" " I cud dae nae work ,* if I tried to wash the floor I got siccin a heart beatin', and my stomach fair turned at the sicht o' food. I went to three doctors, one ofter anither, and they gae me bottles and bottles, but it didna help me ana till a frien' tellt me (o try Mother Seigel'a Syrup. Wuman, in a week I was bettor and fin I had tft'en it a month I was a' richt and could eat and work well as ever." Then they went on talking of olhi-r subjects. Go where <" ne may he is likely to hear some good said about Mother Seigel and what is done by her famous medicine. Sometimes it is in the form of a bit of passing talk like the one quoted above ; and again it takes the shape of letters, fragrant with gra'itude for health regained. Here i» one. hope many suffering women wi 1 sec it and read it. •• In August, 1892," says the writer, "I bfgan to feel low, weak, ad ailing. My appetite was bad, and what litt'e I ate gave me much pain at the chea . I was constant'y spitting up a clear fluid like water and I heaved and strained a good deal. At the pit of my stomach there was a gnawing feeling, and there seined to be a hard lump formed in my abdomen. In any case I suffered much from pain in that region. " My breathing got to be very bad, and I wheezell as if the windpipe were clogged and stopped up. I had a hacking cough which gave me but little rest day or night and I was troubled with night sweats. The pillow my head had lain on would be wet in the morning. " In two or three weeks after the time I was taken, I was no longer able to take solid food, or indeed food of any kind. I lived for two months on milk, lime water brandy, and the like. During that time I lay he pless in lied. " Often I would have fainting fits, and had to be lified up and supported in bed. I was now so weak that my friends feared there was no hope for me, and I was anointed by the priest. I had a doctor at tending me, buc he was not successful in giving me any real re'if-f. " In the following November, aUhough vory iil and low. I was able nt time.? to real a little, and then it was that I read one day about Mother Seigel's Syrup and the wonders it hnd done for o hers. I sent for it, and less than ha'f a bott'e made me feel better. I had a trifle more appetite and could eat a little and retain it. So I went on with the Syrup, and when I had used four bo;t!es the cough and all the other troubles left me, and soon I was well and strong as before. You are at liberty to publish my letter if you desire. for the good of others who may suffer as I did without knowing whers to look for a ours. (Signed) Mrs Honoria Brcnnan, 42 Great Britian Street, Cork, March 17th, 1894. ' A good 1 tier, a cheering letter, dat d on St. Patrick's Day, too. A great thing (o be rid of snakes, but a greater thing to be rid of indigestion and d>*pepsia — more poisonous than any reptile that ever crawled. And that; was the dreadful ailment which gave Mrß Brennan three months of suffer ing; the ailment that the Scotch women talked of in the train ; 'the ai'ment that inflicts more pain and fills up more graves than all the other ailments on earth put together. And yet Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup cures it as fast as people hear of it and tak'j it. That's why we keep tailing about it, and printing what everybody tells about it over and over.