Life’s Happiest Period

Manawatu Herald, 10 March 1903, Page 3

Life’s Happiest Period

<*> YJ’hett an ancient Gretk philosopher was a.'k'-d which he considered was the happiest time in a man’s Ufa, he promptly ge oct-d the period between the ages of forty and forty-five- On being proved for the reasons which induced him t» make thi« selection, the philosopher added : •• At forty a man, If he be intallig'nt, has lost his illusions, and lo ks upon the world as it is; not as he wou'd like it to be. He is still young enough to partake of the pleasures of youth, yet has sufficient exnrrienca never to permit his heart to ru e his head ; is moderate xn all things, and wisely shy of hazardous enterprises. On being further a ked which he considered the happiest time in a woman’s life the philosopher paused a long while, and* when at last he replied he prefaced his answer by asserting that this was the more difficult question of the two. Finally he said; “ When she is too old te be BRul. end not old enough to be a woman without the w ird ‘young prefixed to it. I am unable to be more definite, for ine difference among women ate greater than the differences among men. The healthy young woman sees only \\p bria h W side of life gad to her

' tlsioa th? future is filled with golden possibilities of wh ch the mental anticipation is de'igbtfuL” la this pronouncement it will be noted thst the wise old Greek uses the word " healthy ”in a qualifying sense. Omit tha 1 word and the sentence at once loses more than half its truth. Hero is a ease which will prove our statement. “ From the age of nineteen unti I comp’eted rny twenty-third year, I did not know what it was to he well for a single day,” writes Mrs R Huntley, of 65, U 1 imo Road, IJldnio, Sydney, N S.W., under date 19th June, 1002. "But for Mother Se : ge!’s Cir alive Syrup it is doubtful if I should 1 e here to-day to describe my experiences. Words are inadequate to convey a conception of my sufferings during that miserable period. I was then a tailor’s machinist, employed in that capacity by Me-sr- Godferson & Smith, of the Royal Arcade, Sydney. Ordinary food was poison to me, and \ was obliged to exist on sodawater, mi k, p ain biscuits and dry toast. Even that fare woud sometimes distress me to an intolerable degree. My skin turmd sallow, my eves sink and were surrounded by dark, hollow circ es. I a’ept only by fits and starts, my slumbers being haunted and harassed by horrible dreams a. d nightmares. There was a dull continuous paiu between my shoulders and in my right side. I grew thinner and thinuer until I was reduced to mere skin and bone, and b came so weak weak that I could hardly walk to my place o£ business. Often the noise of my sewing-machiii ll , and the Close air of the wo- kroom, would bring on a splitting headache that maddened me. Then there were fits of retching aud vomiting, which troubled me with great frequency. When there was nothing in the stomach to come up, I would retch aud strain until I became exhausted and faint, when my workmates would improvise a couch for me with their oloaka aud jackets and I would lie for hours unable to move. I was treated by three doctors; but I believe the medicines they perscribed irritated my stomach and did me more harm than good. After foul* years of misery I Was persuad d to try what Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup cou’d do for me, and within a few days began to mend a, such a rate that everyone who knew me was amazed at the improvement in my condition. The vomiting ceased, the hue of health returned to my cheeks, my eyes brightened, and at the end of iwo months I was in every respect thoroughly cured.”