Comfort for the Old Folks

Manawatu Herald, 20 September 1898, Page 3

Comfort for the Old Folks

S.apposa the wheels of time could suddenly l>e reversed, and we cou d, { n an instant, go back to the yea - 1814. Why, maa, you Wouldn't recognise England. You wouldn't know ho^v to speak, what to da, or how to understand (he things around you. You would be as comp'etely lost as though you were whisked awoy and dropped on the planet Jnpiter. You would find no rail- { ways in England, no telegraphs, no running ' water in the City houses, and mighty few of the hoQsee themselves that .re standing i now. Between 1814 and 1894 the difference is as great as between 1814 and 1600. Y?b; and greater. Yet a lady who was born in 1814 write? us the fo 1 lowing letter. She says; "In the ear'y part of 1884 I commenced to feel j week and ailiny. My appetite waß had, and after meas I had an aching pain in the cheat and a moat uncomforfcbh feeling in the-atimaoh. My month tasted i bodily, and I spat up a sour, sickening fluid. I was much troubed with wind, be/oning it up frequently. It wos about all fttould do to get around here and there' in the house. " A woman that I knew tod me., of a j medicine that she said had done her a gr< at deal of good ; she called it Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup; She said no doubt it would do as much for me. On ; hearing this I sent and got a boUle from Mr F. Daniel i's, grooer and draper, in Linton, and began to take it. I nm glsi° to say that in a very short time I felt much better. The bad symptoms I have spoken of went away, and soon I was as strong j and hearty as I had been before the trouble came on me. "I am 80 years of age, and can do al- . most any kind of work easi y and wi r h comfort. I own it to Mother Seigel's Syrup, and by taking an occasional dose I when I fflel ailing it has kept me in good i health for ten years. I recommend the Syrup to all my friends, and if by printing my letter in the papers you think other persons— egpooially those who &re advanced in life— may come to hear of the Byrnp and use it, I sha 1 be very pleased to have you do so. (Signed) Mrs Ann Woollett; Wheel rr's Lone, Linton, near Maidstone, Jan. 16, 1894." We do think Mrs WooUett's letter will | do good .and bo you find it -printed here, j Now, there are a great many old people in this country, some of them perhaps even older than she. And they need a gentle and good medioine like Mother Seigel's Syrup. Old age is a time when life is apt to seem a heavy ihing to bear, particularly if there is more or less pain and illness. And this is sure to be the case. The stomach gives oat. Old people can't digf st as they once did. Their food 6onrs ■nd ferments in the stomach, and mrkea >t 1 those bad feelings that Mrs Woo"ett h.iaelf had. And when they cannot eat and digest their they food, of course they get weak and feeble, and have to lie in bed or sit in the corner, unab'e to take the air and go about for necessary exercise. Then they get to thinking they are in the way, and grow downhearted a d low spirited. Besides, they are likely to be troubled with : rheumatism, which is a complaint p"CuHaly common to old people., and comes from a bad djgeshon. '-1 ' ' . Now lor ouring and ' mitigating the ailments of o d people, there is nothing in theworld RO good as Mother Seigel's Symp. 1 It doesn't sioken them and tear them all .'o ' pieces as some harsh medicines do. If > operates gently and thoroughly ; it doesn't > make them worse before it makes them I be ter. For indigestion, dyspepsia, rheum- : atism, and ail the aoh°p, pains, and disl ooojfortf of age, it is just right

Mother Seigel, who discovered it, knew what her elderly friends needed— nobody better. . : - ■ Well, we can't go back 1 to 1814, and we don't want to. In spite of all tie growlers and grumb'ers, we are better of! where we are. In 1814 Mother Seigel's Syrup was' never heard of ; it didn't exist. Bat everybody fcnows it \a 1894. It is one of the great and good thioga of this end of the century.. ... ;