WHY NOT LIVE A CENTURY?

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2059, 5 June 1896, Page 2

WHY NOT LIVE A CENTURY?

"In the coming time," said a famous English poet, "a man-or woman eighty or one hundred years old will be more beautiful than the youth or maiden of twenty, as th©! ripe fruit is more beautiful and fragrant than the green. These ripe men and women will have no wrinkle* on the brow," no grey hair,, no bent and feeble bodies. On the contrary they will havepe'fect hening. clear eyesight, sound teeth, step, and -mental vigour. ' Does this sound absurd and impossible? Why should it ? People over one hundred years old a»e frequently met with in these day, as they hive been as far as human re-'i cords go back. A man "is 6t no ival value until he is past fifty and gained-emit ml of his pissions and acqui-ed some pr actio il wisdom. Afer that he ought to have from fifty to seveity-five working years before him. Whose di-s short of one hundred (bir violence) dies of his oivn folly or that of his ancestors. One chief thine however we must learn. What is it ? Take an illustration— surh as we see multitudes of on every fide. Mr Richard Leeatte of New near Boston. Lincolshire. is a man now somewhat above seventy. Hs is a farmer wellknown and highly respected in his district. In the s'pting of 1891 he had an attack of inom which he never fully recuperated. The severe pa-sed away of course, but he/remained weak. No doubt food would have built bim up. piovided he could have eaten a"d digested it. Yet here was the trouble, his appetite was poor and what Utile he t-V'k. as a matter of necessity rather than of .relish, seemed to act wrong with bim. Instead, of giving him strength it ac'ually produce! pain and distress in the sides, chest and stomach.

Then agiin -which is a common experience ne wouTdf-'el a craving for something to eat, yet on sitting down to a meal in the hope Io enjoy it, the stomach would suddenly rebel awinst the proceeding, and he would turn from the tab'e without having swallowed a mouthful. . .. . Nothing com? of this but mceasing weakness, and it w-isn't long-before it was all he could do to sumtaon strength to walk about. As for working on bia f*rm, that to be sure, was not to be thought of. He had a doctor attending him as we should expect. If the services of a learned medical man are eve«jieeded they must be in snch a case— seems to be broken up; and the machinery runs too slow, as our domestic clocks do when we have forgotten to wind them at the usual hour. Well Mr Leggate took, the prescribed medicines, but got no better. He asked the doctor why that was, and he appeared to be puzss'ed for an answer at first. Natunlly enough a doctor doesn't like to admit that his medicines are doing no good, because he expects to be paid for them ; and then there is h ; s professional pride, besides. However, he finally said,' If my medicines fail to raa.ke you better it is owing to yonr age.' That idea was as .plain as a pikestaff, and if the pa'ient had never got any better afterwards, why who could dispute what the doctor said ? Nobody, of course. It would look just as though Mr Leggate were really going to pieces from old age. But something subsequently happened which spoils that easy theory of the ca«e. What it was he tells us in a letter dated February 3rd, 189?. v ' After doctoring several months without receiving ady benefit*. I determined to try Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. I got a bottleifroni Mr ■'&. H. Hanson, Chemist, New Bolingbrokg. After tajting.the Syrup for a week I wis much better. I had a good appetite.,, and what -I ate digested and "strengthened me; and by the time I had taken two bHfclear I was ' well and strong as ever.' you. maypbblish this statement if you think proper. (Signed) Richard Leegatei' So itproyed, alt'r all, tbat Mr 'Leggate w« nit suffering from old age (at seventy? Nonsense !). but from indigestion dyspepsia. When Mother Seigel's great discovery routed that he felt well and strong as ever.' Now for the mornl: It is not Father Tim ■ who mows people down thus early in life ; it is thei)emon of Dyspepsia,... Keep him away, and—barring accidents—you may .live a century.