Intimate Strangers.

Manawatu Herald, 7 November 1899, Page 2

Intimate Strangers.

Suppose a man to have lived 50 years with-' out ever having seen the reflection of his own f .cc. Now lead him before a mirror and let him have a look. He will, of course, recognise the outiiues and general ippearance of his body ; but his features vv;h be as new and strange to him as those of a person he had never before met. Yet he has worn that mask all his life ; and touched it with his hands times beyond counting ; has by means of it expressed the feelings and passions of half a century; has heard its pecularities remarked upon by others — yet, bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh as it is, the ''lass presents it to his gaze as a novely. Fortunately Nature bas so mad-) us that wa are common y sa isfid with our look*, otherwise this man might curse the hoar ie first b he'd his own c:mn euancj. On a page of a b ok which lies on' my able this brig .t morning is a picture which — were it published without title or 1 description —probably the most of ns .you ld not undei stand; yet the original is vitally important to every human being. No mirror throws back its structure to the eye, nor has tbe owner ever laid hands on it. Nevertheless its name is daily on our lips, and on its faithful performance of duty largely* depend our efflcienoy and happiness. Still, peoplo are continually al'udingto it in «ords of wailiog and complaint. They find no end of fault with it when it goes wrocg, .md when it goes right seldom pay it th^ compiment of doing good work. "The way of the world," and r-mind me; "alas! the way of the world." For example here i=( one who cays tbat in tha early part of 1890 she began to suffer from a bad stomach and indigestion. Now tbe s omach tries to be good and not bad. It makes constant and mighty efforts to accomp'ish its task and so furnish the rest of the body with health, strength, and beauty: ut it often fails dismally, and then its owner characterises it as a " bad " stamach.

bott'e of this remedy, and soon found that It relieved me as nothing else had done. | I cou'd eat better, all food agreed with me, and I felt better every way. Since that time— now four years ago— l have kept well, taking an occasional dose of tbe Syrup when I seem to need it. My daughter suffered from the same troub c, and Mother Seige 's Syrup had the like effect in her case. You are at iiberty to made any use you 'ike of this statement." —(Signed) MrsE izabcth Nau'ty, Foresters Arms Inn, 96, Scouringburn, Dundee, Ju y 2nd, 1887. This lady's stomach did' not become " bad " of " malice prppense and aforethought," as the lawyers say of certain crimina'B. The eanse lay in the conditions of ber life, her habits of ea'ing, maybe— with, possibly, inherit' d weakness. There are so many things and combinations of things, tbat tend t • procure or develop dypppsia, it is hard to trace them in individual insta' ees; The symptoms (or consequences), however, are move numerous, dan <rous, and deceptive than the unins ruct d imagine It is for this reason that so great a multitude of a Itged " dyspf p ia t> medics" are prewar d. But the " bad " stomach having been slow to abandon duty and ftrike woik, does not respond to any and all sorts of drugs tbat may be thrown hopefully into it. The case must be exactly adapted to the disease, and if there is a medicine which so perfectly meets this requirement as Mother Seige. 's Syrup, the world has not yet heard of it. The tired and inflamed organ receives it for the genuine stimulus and healer that it is— and the "bad" stomach is changed back into a good one.

You now guess what that picture on my table represents— a machine in your body you will never see, but which in other ways you may study and know more about.