WHAT DREAMS MAY COME,

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8175, 6 May 1895, Page 4

WHAT DREAMS MAY COME,

In a rooent 'ooturo at the Royal Institution, Hr B. VV. Riohardson saya thut th* sloop of health it drtMn'oss. "Dream*," says Shake paarc, "aro children of an idlo brain," If bith the dootor nni tho poot aro right it follows tint idle brains are un< hca'tly braim. No doubt thoro miflhb be truth in tho inferenoo, but that i« not quite tho point. Aro all droami signs of a diseased condition? To this the dootor ays "No," He divides dreams into two ulai e» ; thosa itartod by noison rr other nausoi outtido ths sleeper, and thoio produood by pain, fov-r, or indigstioa He ewo Inj ob a faot. Wo rroeivo tru\« titadei of letters u nt lining tlm nfl'innitio , almost in identioal wn'ds : Iwasworsa tired in the morning than when I went to bed. To this the doo.or has aa answer, Ha bxm>, " Whrn we fool wearied in tho morning very 11 ely it> resiiltn from d teams tha 1 wo havo fo gotten." Quite io. In ' ther words there it a bodily oonnitlon whioh may p ovent a person fro.v working by day at his naaal otlling, but obliges h ! m to labor all uipht under a mental st mulns of whioh h« knows nothing lave by its ro u'ting exhaustion. Tho»e unhappy wretohes toil harder, thoroforo, Tor no oompen afon, whoa thoy are ill, than they have to do to o»rn a living \vh n thoy aro woll. What sn inf m»! ond frightful faot ! And this too without taking into aoooant their physio >l Buffering at all times. 1 ' Night," sad Coleridßo, •ii my hell." From ono of the lettors referred to we quote wrut n womun says o( her daughter : *< bho vas worso tirod in % morning than when sho wont to bed." Poor girl. Those 11 fo'gotten dreams " had toised her about m a ship is tiwod in a tompost, Night wai her day of labor • Thorn»o m» her's eimplo tao is this : " In June, 1890, my d»ugh r or Ann Elmbeth becuno low, weak, and fretful, and comp\tined of pMn in the oheit aftor ea ing. Next h*r stomach was io irritable that sho vomittd all tho food she took. It was awful to eco hor he*vo and • train. For th oe wooks noth n# pasted through hor •tomioh oxoept a httlo tody w ter and lime water. Later on, her feet and logs bogan to swel and puft from dropsy. She w&a now pile as death and looked as though she had not a drop of blood in her body, and win ulwaye oold. Month aftor morth d agged by a r d ehe goi woaker evory day. Sho cou'd not walk without suppart, for she had loit tho propor uio of hor lpgs, <md hor body swayed from tide to sido ss rhe moved. " A dootor attended hor for twelve months, and dually eaid it was no use giving hor any more modioino aa it would do no good. In M»y, 1891, I took her to tho Dowibury Infirmary. Sho got no bottcr there, uud I thought I was surely poiug to loso her. Sho was then thirteen years of age. Ono day n luly (Mrs Ligtuollor) oiUlod at tny shop, and seeing how bad my daughtor was, spoko of a medtoino called Motlior Soigel s Curative Syrup, and porauadod us to try it. I got a bolt c from the Thorohill Lees Co-operative Stores, and eho bcgiiu taking it. In two days she found a Httlo relief ; tho aioknoia was not bo frequents She kopt on with tho Syrup and steadily improved. Soon sho was strong aa over, ana has since been in tho belt of health and can tuko any kind of food, Aftor sho had takon tho yynvonly tivo wocks tho noighbora wero surprised at hor improved appca anoc, and 1 told thoin what had brought it about— that Soigol's Syrup hid dono whit the dootors oould not do ; it aavod her life. Yours truly, (Signed), (Mra) Sauaii Ann Sheauu, 19, Browory La c, Thornliill Loos, near Dowsbary, October llth, 1892." Tho inciting cause of all this young girl's pitiful suffering was indigestion and dyspepsia, dropsy being one of its mo?t dangerous symptoms, It attaoks both youth and age, its fearful »nd often fatil roiults baing due to tho faot that phyaioians usually tro.it tho symptoms instead of the disease itself. " A child's dreams," says Dr Richardson, "aro sigia of disturbod hoa'th, and should bo regarded with anxiety." Tho saiiio is truo of tho droaais of older pooplw. Thoy moan poison in tho stomach, and point to tho immodiato uso of Mothor Solgol's CurAtivo Sytup.