Mother and Daughter.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 371, 18 June 1903, Page 5

Mother and Daughter.

It is remareable how greatly our estimate of ourselves and our qualities differs from the estimate formed of us by others. Tf the thing were practicable, many folks would realise heavily by selling themselves at their own valuation (if they could find customers), and afterwards buying themselves back on the basis of other people's notion of their worth. The more numerous and the harder the blows aimed at our selfconceit in the days of our youth, the better for us. They pulverise, as it were, the worser part of our nature, and nothing survives the process but what deserves to epdure. " And what are you ?" asked a Lord Chief Justice of England of a witness who had just given some rambling and discreditable evidence. " I employ myself as a sureeon," said the witness. " But does anybody else employ you as a surgeon? are you a sivrgeonV asked the judge. And thereat the witness collapsed. It is claimed for all medicine that they effect cures, though the fact is that some do and some do not. Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup has been expensively used tor thirty-five years, and is to-day the principal domestic medicine in sixteen different countries. The number of cures it has effected (especially among persons suffering from indigestion and bilious diseases) is quite ! incalculable. Of the many thousands of 1 testimonials as to its efficacy voluntarily given, here as an interesting one from a mother and daughter. " For several years," writes Mrs Hutchison, of Newcastle Road, Jesmond, N.S.W., on October 10th, 1902. " I suffered agonies from indigestion and liver complaints. I could neither eat, sleep nor work—in fact, did not know what it was to eDjoy a single hour of freedom from pain. I was attended by two of the cleverest medical men in ths Newcastle district, but their treatment failed to bring me any relief. Indeed, I went steadily downhill, and began to fear that my case was beyond the aid of medicine. Igrew weakly and thin and became dejected, when, two years ago, I was advised to try what Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup could do for me. It was a happy decision, for before I had taken a quarter of the first bottle my health was much improved. I continued to take the medicine according to the directions for five weeks, by the end of which time 1 was cured. The cure is evidently a permanent one, for I have remaiccd well and sound to

the present day." This is a good testimony—testimony to be proud of. But it don't stop here. Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup not only cured Mrs Hutchison of her indigestion and liver comcomplaint, but in the case of her daughter Agnes, arrested the progress of an insidious and dangerous malady which, if allowed to range unchecked, might have had fatal results. I':' ere is Mrs Hutchison's own description of her daughter's case: "My daughter," she says, '* was in a very bad way. She was suffering from severe nervous debility. She wasted away to a skeleton, and appeared to have no blood in her body. She was so weak tbat she could not walk without assistance, and was-often compelled to keep to bed for days together. The doctors seemed to be much in the dark as to her ailment, and as impotnet in treating her caee as they had been in their treatment of mine, so I determined to experiment on her with the medicine which had proved such a boon to myself. The result was that within two months a few bottleß of Mother Curative Syrup changed her from a helpless invalid into a hearty, healthy and happy girl. She remains as well as one could wish her to be." Mrs Hutchison is well known in Jesmond and Lambton, and has lived in these places for twenty years. She is a native of Scotland, and came to Australia in 1872.