"HOW SHALL DECIDE THIS QUESTION?"

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4309, 4 January 1893, Page 3

"HOW SHALL DECIDE THIS QUESTION?"

So 5, which h Ik mrtt-tt tec no (ipjie- ! titefi ■ your Miner, or lo hove no dinner for yourtppdilel • _ Th re arc lots of people on tho ono side tht other ot this question.. When "good diynjlon waits on appetite and health on both,' that is tho ideal altitude of a person towards his meals,. But most ot us aro not blessed iu that way;' wo either bavotoo much food without an appetite, or a vigorous appotito without enough to satisfy it. Different folk will answer this question differently, yet tlie common senso of it is that, within reasonable limits, it is hotter to have an appetite without a dinner, because, short of the starvation line,, a hungry man is a healthy man; whereas a man who ought lo eat and doesn't feel like eating, stands in heed of' alterations and repairs." To illustrate. Wo recently received a communication in which tho writer says, "I was afraid to eat." Did ho fancy his food was poisoned, or did his nature rebel against tho nourishmejt lived on?. If the latter, why? Let him olear tho mystery himself.

Ue says, in the year 18891 changed my work from railway borter to signalman, I hod been Bignalman twelve months, and then all ot once,- so to npeak, I did not fejl myself, My month.tasted bad, so that ordinary articles of diet seemed to loose their flavour; tho palate, to put it in that way, appeared to have nothing to eoj to thorn, Ono thing was t'ke another, and none was good, My tongue was coated and furred, with a dark line down the middle and yellow fur round it. My breath was offensive and my appotito poor, with pains through tho chest and shoulders, which were always right before I had eaten anything. Then I was greatly troubled with wind. It would gather so, itfoltlike a ball in my throat, and act as though it would ehoko me." > We cannot woudcr that under these circumstances our friend failed to dojuslice to his meals, He adds that thoro was what he| calls" a pricking sensation " at his heart, as though it woro touched with somo sharp insijument. T hen, again, at times he was attacked with spasms, the agony of which was so soveve that to sweat rolled off him, " I dreadod," be says," the thought of eutm&tta&manyaMnl'jmwllKixi I made, orlvuKafm'dloml, "After n timo I got into a low, weak, nervous condition; and felt miserable, as if something was going to happen, and this caused mete lose a good do.il of bleep," What bo means by the fear of "swiethinggoi.ig to happen" is, of course, the fear ot some calamity, such as tho loss of his posiiion, bis own death, or tho death o somebody dear to him. This was due as he intimates, to tho impoverished stato oflua blood (tho lifo bearer), his unstrung nerves, and to the brain enfeebled by lack of nourishment, Tho niyht of this form ot illness is always full of ghosts and goblins, the creatures of a restless and ungoverncd imagination,

"With great difficulty," he says, "I stuck to my work, for I had a wife and family depending on me, So I struggled on, but what I suffered for over two years is pastmypoworsofdesoriplion, lam Bine no ono has suffered so much as I have done."

In tho l?ttor statement he is undoubtedy wrong. One's own pain is one's own, oiid is always harder to bear than is one's no tion of his neighbour's pain. There is a countless multitude who woro all tho while gomg through the same wretolud experience, only we dou't happen to come in teach with them.

Well, tho writer finally mentions that a medical treatment had left hiin whereho found him he chanced to read in a book one case exactly lile his own having been cure by Mother Soigel's Syrup, "My wife," ho says, " got men bottlo at Mr Longstaff's in Woodlesford, and after using its contents the ailment left me and bos novor returned since that fortunato day. I should lib the whole world to know what it did for me,. I have been employed by the Midland Railway Company for eleven years. (Signed) "George fta, "Carßottom Road,

"Apperloy Bridge, near Leeds." We publish this by Mr Hunt's desire, in order that part of the world at least may know how thankful ho is and for what reason,