Comfort for the Old Folks

Manawatu Herald, 27 September 1898, Page 3

Comfort for the Old Folks

Suppose the wheels of time could suddenly be reversed, and we could, in an instant, go back to the year 1814. Why, man, you wouldn't recognise England. You wouldn't know how to speak, what to do, or how to understand the things around you. You would be as completely lost as though you were whisked away and. dropped on the planet Jupiter. You would find no railways in England, no telegraphs, no running water in the City houses, and mighty few of the houses themselves that are standing now. Between 1814 and 1894 the difference is as great as between 1814 and 1600. Yes ; and greater. Yet a lady who was born in 1814 writes as the following letter. She says: "In the early part of 1884 I commenced to feel week and ailiny. My appetite was bad, and after meals I had an aching pain in the chest and a most uncomfortable feeling in the stomach. My mouth tasted badily, and I spat up a sour, sickening fluid. I was much troub'ed with wind, belching it up frequently. It was about all I could do to get around here and there in the house. " A woman that I knew told me of a medicine that she said had done her a great 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 bottle from Mr F. Daniell's, grocer and draper, in Linton, and began to take it. I am glad 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 and hearty as I had been before the trouble came on me. "I am 80 years of age, and can do almost any kind of work easily and with comfort. I owe it to Mother Seigel's Syrup, and by taking an occasional dose when I feel ailing it lias kept me in good health f or ten years. I recommend the Syrup to all my friends, and if by printing my letter in the papers you think other persons— especially those who are advanced in life— may come to hear of the Syrup and use it, I sha'l be very pleased to have yon do so. (Signed) Mrs Ann Woollett, Wheeler's Lane, Linton, near Maidstone, Jan. 16, 1894." We do think Mrs Woollett's letter will do good and so you find it printed here. 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 medicine Uke Mother Seigel's Syrup. Old age is a time when life is apt to seem a heavy thing to bear, particularly if there is more or less pain and illness, i And this is sure to be the case. The j stomach gives out. Old people can't digest j as they once did. Their food sours and i ferments in the stomach, and makes all those bad feelings that Mrs "Woollett her- . self had. And when they cannot eat and j digest their they food, of course they get weak and feeble, and have to lie in bed or sit in the corner, unable to take the air and go about for necessary exercise. Then they get to thinking they are in the way, and grow downhearted a r d low spirited. ] Besides, they are likely to be troubled with rheumatism, which is a complaint ppculialy common to old people, and comes from a bad digestion. i Now for curing and mitigating the ailments of o'd people, there is nothing in the world fo good as Mother Seigel's Syrup. It doesn't sicken them and tear them all to pieces as some harsh medicines do. It operates gently and thoroughly ; it doesn't . make them worse before it makes them , better. • For indigestion, dyspepsia, rheumatism,' and all the aches, pain?, and dis--1 comforts of age, it is just right. Mother Seigel, who discovered it, knew

what her elderly friends needed —nobody betterWell, we can't go back to 1814, and we don't want to. In spite of all the growlers and grumblers, we are better off where we are. In 1814 Mother Seigel's Syrup was never heard of ; it didn't exist. But everybody knows it in 1894. It is one of the great and good things of this end of the century. ,