Comfort for the Old Folks

Manawatu Herald, 4 October 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 a 9 though yon were whisked away and dropped on the planr-t Jupiter, You would find no railways in England, no telegraphs, no running water in the City houses, and mighty f--w of the houses themselves that are standing now. Between 1814 and 1894 the difference is as great as between 1814 and 1600. Yes; and greatpr. Yet a lady who was born in 1814 writes us the fo lowing letter. She says: "la the ear y part of 1884 I commenced >o feel week and ailiny. My appetite was bad, and after meals I had an aching pnin in the chest and a most uncomfortable feeling in the st mach. My mouth tasted 1 badily, and I spat up a sour, sickening fluid. I was much troub ed with wind, belching it up frequently. It w**s about all I could do to get around here and there in the house. " A wom>m that I knew to d me of a medicine that sbe said had done her a gr at deal of good ; she called it Mot ci Seigel's Curative Syrup; She said nc douht 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 feltinuct better. The bad symptoms I have spoken of went away, and soon I was as strong and hearty as I bad been before the trouble caxne on me. • ; ■•■' • '..-... .

" I am 80 years of agp, " and can do al- ; most any kind of work easily and with . comfort. I owe it to Mother Seigel'a t Syrup, and by taking an occasional dose r when I f ailing it has kept me in good Jiealth for ten years. I recommend the Syrup to all my friends, and if by printing | my letter in the papers you think other ' persons - especia'lf those who are advanced • in life— may come to hear of the Syrup ' and use it, I sha Ibe very pleased to havi • yon do bo. (Signed) Mrs Ann Woollett • Wheeler's Lane, Linton, near Maidstone Jan. 16, 1894." ! We do think Mrs WooUett's letter wil ' do good and so you find it printed here | Now, there are a great many old people ii . j this country, some of them perhaps evei ■ older than she. And they need a gentk and good medicine ike Mother Seigel's 1 Syrup. Old age is a time when life is apt i to seem a heavy thing to bear, particularly i if there is more or less pain and illness. , And this is sore to be the case. The stomach gives oat. Old i eople can't digest as they once did. Their food sours and ferment* in the stomach, and makes all those bad feelings that Mrs Woollett herself had. And when they cannot eat and digest their they food, of course they get weak and feeble, and have to tie in bed or ; sit in the corner, unabe to take the air and go about for necessary exercise. Then they get to thinking they are in the way, and grow downhearted ad low spirited. Besides, they are likely io 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 ail- j ments of o d people, there is nothing in the world o good as Mother Seigel's Syrup*. It doesi'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 beter. For indigestion, dyspepsia, rheumatism, and all the aches, pains, and discomforts of age, it is just right. Mother Seigel, who discovered it, knew what her elderly friends needed —nobody better. We'l, we can't go back to 1814, and we don't want to. In spite of all t c gr wlers and grumb ers, 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.