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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3940, 16 October 1891, Page 3

Little of tbe Sua; XTotbi&sr of tie Bo?"When Rip Van Winkle awoke from his nap in the Catskill Mountains ,in America, he found himself an old man. Bis deg was dead long asp, tnd nothing was left of his gun but the lock and barrel. And when he went back to the village of Falling Water, where he used to live, nobody recognised him. His wife, believing him dead, had married the innkeeper. Eight enough too, for Rip had lain on the mountain side, sound asleep for twenty years. A long Bnooze ; bnt it seems to me I'd rather be asleep half my life at a stretch tban to stop awake and be miserable. Yet here is a woman who say* "I can truthfully say that for eighteen years I was never free from pain for a single day.". Mercy J think of that. What a wretched way to live! Yet I- suppose millions of tolk crawl along.thrnugh the world in that style. Jiot because they want to. Heavens, no I But because they can't help it. This was her situation, and an army of other women (besides crowds of men) can sympathise with her. She says] "For over twenty years I was weak and sick. At first I had a bad taste in my mouth, poor appetite and an uncomfortable feeling at my chest and sides, and often tried to obtain ease by holding" up my sides with my hands. After eating I had great pain : it was like a load at my chest, and I could not bear it until I vomited all my food up. 1 would be quite faint from the want of food but teas afraid to eat. At tiroes 1 Jnacl baft attacks of spasms which nearly me up, and 1 rambled up and JAdown the hquse fqr hours together, for I not even he down Of coursa I lost p deal of sleep, and |n a morning was so freak and faint 1 scaicely knew how .o get out of bed and downstairs. For (ighUeep. years I was never free from paixifo r « single day. . '■ 1 paw doctor after doctor, and took a great quantity of medicine without finding any real relief. They would not say yhat was fche cause of my ailment. I was fait wastijw away, and did not think J J could live much longer, when one day }n 188). my husband heard from Mr Joseph Cooper, of Bourne, of a medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, which he said h*d cured nim. 'lf I am spared," I said to my husband, ' I will fcry it,' I did so and before I had taken the first bottle I found relief, and after taking four bottles more I was quite well and strong. *' That is now ten years ago, and 1 have been in good health ever since, taking just an occasional dose of the syrup. After my recovery the clergyman said to toy husband, 1 Your missus pets about & Ter y different now to what she used to do,' and be told him that Mother Seigel's Syrup had wrought the cure. People te]l me I look better than I did twenty yeard ago, and I feel so strong that 1 can £bw fljg'pqtaljpes'and do the iyork of anyonfe, ufctwithstan'ding lam 65 years of age. " My husband suffered terribly from rheumatism and flux, and has found wqcdsrful benefit from the same raedipnie; He says he would haye been in the churchyard ion? ago but for Mother §eigpl'f Syrup. ' For myself I can say it paved my life, and I wish others ut know what it has done for me and mine. (Signed), Mrs. Esther Avb, wife or William Ayr, near Bourne, Lincolnshire." - In this brief and simple way Mrs Ayr tells a story the full details of which jOqld till » b«'k. What hopes and