It Was not his Fault.
The man who sits down to his supper and refuses to eat it ia not likely to rise in the eßteem of his wife or his cook. Excellent cooks have thrown up their situations, and gone off in a huff simply because the master of the house has casually remarked that there was a trifle too muoh Bait in the soup. Nevertheless, Mr John Bennett, accord- •». ing to his own story, failed to get any satisfaction out of his meals for several years. Yet nobody complained of him becaUßeitwas not his fault. He, would not have dreaded the coming of a -meal time, as he actually did dread *hV had be possessed the power to choose^ bis own feelings. . I But alas I a deaf man may love muaia, or a Wind one long vainly for the sight of I remembered colours. ! «• From 1884 to 1889," says Mr Bennett, j " I was a helpless viotim of that torment- I ing and incorrigible complaing—indigestion. ' How it oame on me at the outset i I cannot say. It is like waking up in the j night and finding a thief in you house. How he got in you may never discovernot (-yen by the aid of the polioe. -** " What Ido know is, that it annihilated : ra . appetite and spoiled by comfort. The little I did worry down often came up 1 again— undigested, and consequently of no advantage to me. •• la tact, I dreaded the oommg of meal time, and wished it were possible to get along without eating. But this is the horror of chronio dyspepsia— that one must eat in ord.r to live, and tbat existence nnder suoh circumstances is soareoely worth having. " During all those years— about fifteen k of i hem— l never knew what is was to be well. Of all the medioines I restored to, and they comprised a'most everything I heard of that had the slightest hope in it, i none did me any good ; that is, none went to the bottom of my trouble. Any weary , and hapless dyßpeptio will understand ; what I mean. •- Some time in 1899 (just ten years ago now), I bought a bottle of Mother Seigel's Syrup of Mr Sept. Powell, the Chemist here in Paddington. He has been long in business in this plaoe, and can be trusted to recommend only what is good in his line. " I need only add that the result of my using this medioine was far beyond my hopes or dreams. Before I had finished "me first bottle I was better, and after t ting the Syrup a. few weeks longer I was cured. Yes, and really cured ; for never since then had a sign of my o!d trouble shown itself. . •• What 1 think of Mother Seigel's Syrup may be infeffed."— John Bennett, 48, Begg Btreet, Paddington, Sydney, N.S.W., AofUit 30tb> 1899. g
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 6 November 1900, Page 3
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484It Was not his Fault. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 6 November 1900, Page 3
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