VERA.

Waikato Argus, Volume VI, Issue 414, 25 March 1899, Page 4

VERA.

A TALE FOR MOTHERS AND FATHERS. Away in Rockhampton, Queensland, where, after the rain, the summer sun shines mercilessly upon the streets and upon the winding roads which lead to the township, resides Vera. Vera McCullagh is her full name, but everybody who knows her calls her Vera. Vera's father is Mr S. McCullagh, a gentleman engaged in the Telegraph Department, and Vera's home is in Talford-street. Mrs McCullagh is never tired of talking about Vera, who, although the heroine of this tale, is but 5i years old. " When Vera was two years old," she says, " she became sick. We could not tell what was the matter with her. She lost her appetite completely. She nearly starved herself ; w e could not get her to eat. We took her to a doctor ; she was under his care, off and on, for fifteen months. For nine months at a stretch he attended her, but he did her no good. Then we took her to another doctor. She got only temporary relief—that is, the tonics she took seemed to do her good, but they only ' set her up ' for the time. There was no permanent benefit. We tried several patent medicines, but in spite of it all she grew weaker and weaker. She would be better for a few weeks, and then she would decline again. At times we hud to carry her about ; Bhe could not put her feet to the floor. Then we took her away for a month for a change, but it did her no good. One day I was reading the Rockhampton Bulletin, Rockhampton, and I came on an advertisement about a cure that seemed to me to fit her case. It was nob a child's case, but it made me try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I bought a box ; that was about three months ago. I gave her half a pill after each meal. She had not been taking the pills more than three days when her appetite improved, and it has never failed since. She took three and a-half boxes altogether, but I have stopped them now. I weaned her from them gradually that is, I lessened the dose every week. At first I used to give a half-pill after each meal, then I gave a half-pill twice a day for a week. The next week I gave half a pill once a day, and then stopped them.

" Before she took the pills she had been lyiDg about for weeks, and had had a very bad attack. We had to carry her about for quite three weeks. We had no hope she would recover. For three and a-half years it had been a constant round of medicine. The poor child could have had a path in the midicine she has swallowed. In addition to being unable to eat or get about, Vera could not rest as a child should at night. "She now eats anything you put before her. She cats things she would not touch before. Besides that, she has been putting on flesh ever since she started Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and she is still getting fat. She plays and runs about as well as any of the other children ; she also sleeps splendidly. " I followed the directions to the leiler, and am very agreeably surprised. I wish this published for the benefit of other poor children who may be in the same state as my little one was," This was the story as told by Mrs McCullagh to a reporter of the Rockhampton Bulletin ; and thus we tell it to fathers and mothers. If your little one is ill, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are a certain cure. Minute directions, showing how children should take them, are sent with each box. But they are good for grown-up men and women too. The tonic properties of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills build up the constitution, strengthen the system, enrich the blood, and improve the train. They are a certain cure for indigestion, ailments arising from the heat, pimples, skin diseases, liver and kidney troubles, biliousness, amemia, sleeplessness, rheumatism, lumbago, loss of physical strength, neuralgia, all female irregularities, debility, sick headache, loss of vital forces, etc. Obtainable from all chemists and dealers, or from the Dr. Williams' Medicino Company, Wellington, New Zealand, who will forward six boxes for IBs 6d, or one box for 3s, post free. 13eware of poisonous imitations, sold at greatly lower prices than the genuine pills. Insist upon seeing the full name, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Pe . on each box purchased. Imitations most dangerous.