Better and Brighter.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3515, 29 April 1905, Page 3

Better and Brighter.

MISS MARGARET RAVRV Of' SYDNEY T'TjLS GRAPH! 'ALLY IN A LETTER HO ■’•/ JOY OVERCAME HER . DESPAIR. There is no joy like the joy of being again in perfect health after you have been disabled, so to speak, by the pains and after-effects of a long, tedious illness. That is the dominating note struck in a letter written on December 7th. 1904, by Miss Margaret Raven, of 127, Quay street, Ultimo, Sydney, in weich she most graphically describes her pains, and the wearing, wearying effects of the disease that, in the form of indigestion, tortured her for years, and then the happiness that has come over her since her release from all these miseries. *' REACHING THE BOTTOM RUNG.” In her letter she says :—“ I dont think anyone in the world has suffered more cruedy from indigestion than I have. For years it poisoned my existence, blotted all the happiness and sunshine out of my life and brought me to the very threshold of the grave. It would take a whole ream of foolscap to describe all the pains, aclms, symptoms and miseries it occasioned me at one time or another. I was weak, thin, pale, and nerveless, unabie to eat, sleep, work or enjoy any of the pleasures of society. This was when I was residing at Hyde Park,'Adelaide, South Austra ia, of which city lam a native. I was attended at different times by quite a number of medical men, but my case kept on going from bad to worse. In the end I could retain nothing on my stomach, and the mere sight of food often made me recch and vomit. The straining from this cause fre quently brought on a bleeding from the lungs which I thought was a sum indication of consumption, I had reached the, bottom rung of the ladd r of life, t think two years back, when on a friend’s advice I began to take Mother Seigel’s Syrup.” “ HFR FRIENDS ALL M >RVF.LLEU.” That is the end of the firs phase of Miss Raven’s remarkable story. Now mark the jubilant feeling with which she describes the action of the wonderful eure which brought back the sunlight into her exis-tence-—"To my great joy Mother Seigel’s Syrup proved to be quite as good as my friend had represented it to be. From the first it enabled me to retain my food, and within a couple of weeks it created quite an appetite, a thing I had not possessed for years previously. “ I felt like a better and brighter being. Instead of moping about the eouse, du'l, dejected and listles., I was anon abb to take an active interest in the affairs of life, and go out into society and enjoy myse'f with the best. Af er a few months of steady perseverance with the medicine my health was thoroughly re-established, and I still remain quite well and happy. If they will ouly profit by ray experience I am "sure that no one need suffer from indigestion who is prepared to give Mother Seigei’s Syrup a fair trial.” The final phase of Miss Raven’s case is con’ained in the seven words near the close of her letter, " I still remain quite well and happy 1”