Sleep When Work is Done.

Manawatu Herald, 29 January 1900, Page 3

Sleep When Work is Done.

» Dubing the late summer (1396) I passed several weeks in a foreign city nearly 700 miles farther 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 awful. My brain reeled, I oould neither I understand nor do anything rightly. 1 1 walked as the good Book says, "in a vain ' show*" What a blessed thing is sleep, ! bow destructive, how killing to lose it. j In healthy sleep the nervous system is inactive— more especially that of the brain \ and Rjpinal cord. The body lies quiet, the mtttOtes relaxed, the pulse slower than %hen we are awake, and the breathing less frequent but deeper. Then nature— wise keeper of the House of Life— proceeded to renew the energies expended through the j day. To miss this renewal, even in part, ! is (o tread the edge of insanity and look ! into the mouth of dea h. "Methought I heard a voice cry, ' Sleep no more ; Macbeth doth murder sleep 1 ' " So said Macbeth himself ; but there is a power which murders more sleep than ever did Duncan's assassin ; and to that Mrs i Beattie alludes when she says of her daughter, " She got no dltep." " Ito 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 'i> tie food she took gave her great pain at the chest and side. She got no sleep at night, and became very nervous and low-spirited. 11 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 d»y she read in a book about Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup and what it had done for othu-s. She got a bottle from Mr Nicbolls, ohemis , Donpgal 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 she was stroDg 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 Beigel's Syrup had done, 1 tock it and was compete y res'ored to s und health. You may use this statement as you like. (Aligned) (Mrs) Mary Beattie, 23 Trinity Square, Belfast, August 14. h, 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 paiu at my chest and a gnawing feeling at the stomach. No matter how 1 '■\*bt <he food I took I had pain and sick headache: "For over a year I was tormented like this, when Mr John Weir, living in this place, 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 left 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, Ton are at liberty to publish this let<er. (S : gned) Alezr. Wilson, General Mrchant, Castfewel'an, Newcastle, Co. Down, Ireland Aug; 15tb, 1896." Indigestion or dyspepsia destroys the power fo 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, as 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 somewh. t asa pestilence does upon a community. Flesh in lost, strength gives way to trembling weakness, courage is supplanted by fear, and life is dreary and desolate. That Mother Seigel's Syrup should be able to cure a disease so common and so terrible is reason for gratitude to us all. For the healthywork and sleep.