Vera.

Manawatu Herald, 18 March 1899, Page 3

Vera.

. » A TALE FOR MOTHERS AND FATHERS. Away in Rockhampton, Queensland, where, after the rain, the summer sun shines mercilessly upon the streets and upon the winding roads which lead to the township, resid-s Vera. Vera McCullagh is her full name, but everybody who knows her calls her Vera. Vera's father is Mv S. McCullagh, a gentleman engaged in the Telegraph Department, and Vera'a home is in Ta'ford street. Mrs McCullagh is never tired of talking about Vera, who although the heroine of this tale, is but 5$ years old. " Whfn Vera was two years old," she says, " she became sick. We cou'd not tel what was the mat'ev with her. She ost her appetite c mpletely. She nearly starved herself; we cou d not get her to «at. We took her to adoc^or; she was was under his care, off and on, for tiftepn months. For nine months at a stretch he attended her. but he did her nn gnod. Then we took her to another doctor. She ontv got temporary r-lief — that is, the tonics she took seemed to do her good, but they only « set her up ' for the tirao. There was no pfrmanent benefit. We tried several paten' medicines, but in spite of *t all s c grew weaker and weaker. She wou'd be bet^r for a few week*, and then she would decline again. At times we had to carry here nbo t ; she could not put hcv fpet o the floor. Then we took her away for a month foi change, but it did her no good. One dav I was reading the Rockhampion Bulletin Rockhampton, and I came on an advertisenv nt about a cure that seamed to ta°. fit her case. It was not a child's crsp, but it inadp mp try Dr. Williams' Pink Pi Is. I boußht a box ; that was about three months ago. I gay» h»r ha'f a pill after each nipa 1 . *he bad no been taking the piUs morp than three days when her appe it > improved, and it has never failed Fine*. She took three nd a . alf boxes altog ther, but I have stopped hem now. I wean- d h r r from them gradually— that is, I Vss^ned the dops cv ry we k. At first f used to give a halfpill after each me»k then I gay* a halfpill twice la day for a week Th° next week T gave ha'f a pill once a day and then stop ed them. " Ifcfore she took the pils she had been Iving about for weeka^and had had a very bad att ck . We had to car?v her about for quite three weeks We had no hope she tooidd recover. For thr^e and a half yea s it had been a constant round of m dicine. The poor child could have had a bath in the medicine she had swallowed. In addition to being unable to eat or get about Vera could not rest as a child should at night. "She now eats anything you put before her. She ea's 'hings she wou d not touch before. Besides that, she has been putting on flesh ever since she s arled Dr Williams' Pink Pills, and she is stiU getting fat. She p'aya and runs about as well as any of the other children ; she also sleeps sp'endidly. " / followed the directions to the letter, and am very agree bly surprised. I wish this pub ished for the benpfit of other poor children wno may be in ths same state as my little one was." This was the story aa told by Mrs McCv lagh to a reporter of the Rochh'impton Bulletin ; and thus we tell it to fathers and moihrr. If your little one is ill, Dr Williams' Pink PiUs are a certain cure. Minute directions, showing bow chi'dren shou'd take them, are se t with each box. Bnt they are good for grown-up men a- d women, too. The tonic properties of Dr Williams' Pink Pills build up the constitution, strengthen the system, enrich the blood, and Improve t c brain. They are a certain cure . for indigestion, ailments arising from the h< at, pimples, skin diseases, iver and kidney tronb'e", M iousoess, antemia, rheumatism, lumbago, loss of physical strength, npura'gia, all fema'e i-regu'anties, s : ck headache, 'oss of vital forceo, &c. Ob ainable from al' chemists and d-a'ers, or from the Dr Williams' Medicine Company, Wellington, N Z., who wil' forward six boss for 16s. Cd., or one hox for 3*., post free. Beware of poisonous im'tittons, sold at gr atly lower prices than th? genuine pi Is. Ins'S f upon seeing the full name, Dr Wilinms' Pink Pi 'ls for Pa'e People, on each l>ox purchased. Imitations ore most dangerous. -'"'