WHAT DREAMS MAY COME,

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8174, 4 May 1895, Page 4

WHAT DREAMS MAY COME,

In a routnt 'eoture at the Royal Institution, Dr B. W. Riohardson says that thn - sleop of hoaith is droam'oss. "Dreams," nays Shftkocpaaro, "arc children of an idle brain." If both the doctor und tho poet »ro riyht It follows that idle brains aro un« ] healthy brain*. No doubt thore mi(?ht be truth in the inferenoo, but that 1» not quite ; the point. Aro all dreamt ligns of a diseased condition? To this the dootor 1 siyi "No." He divides droams into two olas Ob ; thoiu started by noi«oo cr other pausos outside tho sleopor. and thoie produocd by pain, fovr, or indigestion, Heo we Inject a faot. We r'oelvo mul* titudos of lettcs irnt lining thu ofiirin'»u tio , almost in identical wo"ds t /was worse tirrd in the morning than when I went to bed. To thii tho dootor hai aa answer. Ho say*» " When we fool woariol In tho morning very 11 olv it results from dteams tha f we have fo gotten." Quite ao, In ' ther wordu there is a bodily oonaitf on whtoh may p oveut a penon from working by d »y At hit na ia< otUing, but obliges him to labor nil nipht u der a mental it mulas of whioh ho know 4 nothing mve by i's to u ting exhaustion. Theio unhappy wrotohei toil harder, therefore, tor no oompen at'on, whea they are ill, than thoy have to do to esrn a living wh n they are well. Whit an inf mV and frightful faot ! And this too without taking into aocount their physio 1 suffering at all times. "Night," sa : dColerid,e, 'is my hell." From one of tho le'ters rferrod to we quote whit a woman says of h«r daughter : '* bho waa worse tired in a morning than when sho went to bed." Poor «irl. Those " forgotten dreams " had tossed her about as a rhip is tossed in a tempest, Night was her day of labor. Tho nr» hor's simple tao ii this : " Tn June, 1890, my daughter Ann Elizabeth bee >mo low, weak, and fretful, and complaine'l of pain in the ohest after oa ing. Next hor stomach was so irritable that sho voTiited all the foot) she took. It was awful to see hor hoavo and utrain. For th cc weeks noth ng patted through her stomaoh except a littlo bodt wtter and lime water. Later on, tu-r feet and legs be^an to swel and puflF from dropsy. Sho wia now pile ai death nnd lookei at thongh sho had not <% drop of blood in her body, and was always cold. Month after month diagged by aid sho got wenkor erory day. She could not walk without support, for she had lott the proper uio of hor \pf>», and horhody swayed from klde to side ns the moved. 11 A doctor attended hor for twelve months, and fl-ally said it waa no uso giving hor any more medioine as it would do no good. In May, 1891, I took her to tho Dewibury Infirmary. She got no bettor there, and I thought I was surely going to lose her. Sho was thon thirteon years of ago. One day a Inly (Mrs Lighloller) oallod at my shop, and seeing how bad my daughter was, spoko of a modioine oallod Mothor Seigol s Curative Syrup, and persuadod us to try it. I got a bottle from tho Thornhill Lees Co-operative Stores, and the began taking it. In two days she found a littlo relief ; the sioknoss was not so frequent, She kent on with tho Syrup and steadily improved. Soon sho was strong as over, and his since been in the bcit of health and can tako any kind of food* After she had taken the Syi up only two woeks the neighbors wero surprisod at her improved nppoa an co, and 1 told them whut had brought >b about— that Soigol's Syrup had done wh it tho doctors could not do ; it tavod her lifo. Youra truly, (Signed), (Mr*) Sarah Ann Shkaulj, 19, Browory La o, Thotuhill Looa, near Dowsbary, October Iltlt, 1892." The inciting <j»uho of all thii youug girl's pitiful aulloring was indlgeition and rtyspepyia, dropsy boiug ono of Us moit clangorous symptoms. It attacks both youth und ago, its fearful and ofton f.itil remits being duo to tho faot that physio iana usually troat tho symptoms instead of the disoaso itself. " A child's droams," says Dr Riohardson, 14 are signs of disturbed health, and should be rcgardod with anxiety." The same is true of tho d roams of older pooplu. They mean poison in tho stomaoh, aad point to the immediato aso of Mother Solgel'i Curative Syrup.