Sleep When Work is Done.

Manawatu Herald, 23 January 1900, Page 3

Sleep When Work is Done.

During the late summer (1*96) I passed several weeks in a foreign city nearly 700 miles further south than London. We had about ten days intense heat and for six nights, when it was worst, I do not think I slept as many hours together. The resulting nervous collapse was simp'y awfu\ My brain reeled, I could neither understand nor do anything rightly. I walked as the good Book says, " in a vain show." What a blessed thing is sleep, how destructive,, how killing to lose it.

In healthy seep the nervous system is inactive— more especially that of the brain and spinal cord. The body lies quiet, the muscles relaxpd, the pu'se slower than when we are awake, and the breathing lessfrequent but deeper. Then nature— wise keeper of the- House of Life— proceeded to renew the energies expended through the day. To miss this renewal, even in part, is to tread the edge of insanity and look into the mouth of dea'h.

"Methought I heard a voice cry, • Sleep no irore ; Macbeth doth murder sleep ! ' " So eaid Macbeth himself ; but there is a nower which murders more sleep than ever did Duncan's assassin ; and to that Mrs Beattie aUudes when she 4iays of her daughter, " SJie got no skep." "In May, 1891," writes the lady . "my daughter Letitia fell into a low, weak condition, and could not get up her strength. She had no appetite, and what little food she took gave her great pain at the chest and side. She got no sleep at night, and becaTie very nervous nnd low-spirited. " As time passed by she grew weaker and more feeble, and we thought she would never get better. A doctor attended her, but none of his medicines seemed to suit her case, and for two years she continued to suffer.

"One day she read in a book about Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup and what it had done for others. She got a bottle from Mr Nicholls, chemis, Donegal Place, and after taking it began to improve, being able to eat, and her food agreeing with her. After having used this medicine a short time Bhe was strong and well as ever and has since been in good health. For a long time I myself suffered from weakness and indigestion, and seeing what good Mother Seigel's Syrup had done, 1 took it and was' completely restored to sound health. Tou may use this statement as you like. (Signed) (Mrs) Mary Beattie, 23 Trinity Square, Belfast, August 14th, 1896."

"In the early part of 1894," writes another, " I began to suffer with indigestion. I bad a poor appetite, and all food gave me pain at my chest nnd a gnawing feeling at the stomach. No matter how light the food I took I had pain and sick headache.

"For over a year I wag tormented like this, when Mr John Weir, living in this pace, told me how he had been cured by Mother Seigel's Syrup, and recommended me to try it. I did so, and soon all pain eft me, and I have since enjoyed good health. I know many persons residing in this district who have been benefited by taking the same medicine. Often in my shop I hear persons say what it has done for them, You are at liberty to publish this letter. (S : gned) Alexr. Wilson, General Mrchant, Castlewel'an, Newcastle, Co. Down, Ireland Aug. 15th, 1896."

Indigestion or dyspepsia destroys the power to sleep by starving, and thus weakening, the nervous system. Indeed the whole body starves, and is thrown into profound disorder. Food may be taken into the stomach, but, a? people constantly say "It does no good." No ; but in a sense it does harm. Fermented, .soured, undigested it develops poisons which act upon the system somewhat as a pestilence

does upon" a community. Flesh ia lost, strength gives way to trembling weakness, courage is supplanted by fear, and life in dreary and desolate. That Mother Seigel's Syrnp shou'd be able to cure a disease so common and so terrible ia reason for gratitude to ua all. For the healthywork and sleep.