WHAT DREAMS MAY COME.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1786, 13 November 1895, Page 2

WHAT DREAMS MAY COME.

Ik a recent lecture at the Royal Institution, v Dr B. W. Richardson says that the sleep of healthis dreamless; ‘ Dreams’ saya Shakespeare; * are children of an idle brain.’ If . both the doctor and the poet are right it follows that idle brains are unhealthy brains. No doubt there might be truth in the,inference, but that is not quite the point. Are all dreams signs of a diseased condition ? " To this the doctor says ‘ No.’ He divides dreams into two classses j those started by noises or other causes outside the sleeper, and those' produced by pain, fever or indigestion* . Here we inject a fact. We receive multitudes of letters containing thia affirmation, almost in identical words: I was worse tired in the morning than when I went to bed.’ To this the doctor has an answer. He says, * When. w;e feel;-'wearied in the morning very likely it results from dreams V - that we have forgotten.! Quite so. •... In other words ;there is a bodily condition which may preventis person from working by. day at .bis usual calling, but obliges him to labour all night jincler a mental Stimulus of which he knows nothing save »by : its resulting exhaustion. These unhappy wretches toil harder, therefore, for no compensation, when they are ill, than they haye,tdr<Jo,td !e»rii a living when they are w'ell.3 WKat'an njferbal and frightful fact' ! i .'AA'cf' i this too wi.thout"tabing into at all times. .• Night,’ said Coleridge, is my hell.’ . n From one of the letters referred to we 1 quote what a woman says of her daughter : She was worse tired in a morning than when she went to bed.’ Poor girl. Those ‘ forgotten dreams ’ had :tossed ..her about as a ship 13 tossed in a tempest. Night was h r day of Jabinr.;/.: ' . ■■ 'I The mother’s simple. tale is this: ‘ln June, ,1890,- my daughter. Ann Elizabeth became low, weak, ahd 'fretful, and complained of pain m tM chest after eatihg. Next her stomach was so irritable that she vomited all the food she-took. It was awful to see her heave and- strain; For three.weeks nothing passed through her stomach except a "little soda water and lime -water. Later on, her feet and legs began to swell and puff from dropsy. She was now as pale as death and looked as though she had not a drop of blood in her body, and was always cold. Month after month dragged by and she got weaker every day. She. could not walk without \ support, for she had lost the proper use of . her legs, and her body swayed from side to side as she moved. ,A docter attended her for twelve months,and finally said it was no use giving her any more medicine as it would do no good. Tn May, 1891,1 took her to the Dewsbury Infirmary. She got no better there, and I thought I was going to lose her. She was then thirteen years of age. ,One day a lady (Mrs. Lightoller) called at. my shop, and seeing how bad my daughter was, spoke of a medicine called Mother Seigel,s Curative Syrup, and pers.uaded us to tty it 3CI ,got a bottle from the Thornhill Lees Cq-op9rative Stores, and she be wan taking.it; In two days she found a little relief; and sickness was 'not so frequent. She kept on with the Syrtlp and steadily improved. Soon she was as strong as ever, and has since been in the best of health and can"take any kind of food After she had taken the Syrup only two weeks the neighbours were surprised at her improvedappearanceand I told them what .had. brought it about—that Seigel ? s Syrup had ~-dqne. what the docters .could fiot do; it Saved heir life. Yours truly, (Singed);, (Mrs.) Sarah Ann SheArd,l9, Brewery Lane, Thornhill Lees, near Dews- . buryV. October .11 th, 1892’ 'ilio inciting cause bf all this young girl's pitiful suffering .was; indigestion and dyspepsia dropsy being fine of its most dangerous symptoins.®Ct attacks both youth and age, its fearful and Often fatal i e suits b nng due to the' fact, that physicians usually, treat the sysptoms instead of the disease itself. , ‘A child’s dreams, ’ says Dr. Richsidson.. * are signs of disturbed healtir ' should be regarded with anxiety. ~ same is true of tee dreams of older people. They mean.poison in the stomach and poing to the immediate use of Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup*. --