HAPPIEST OF ALL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2082, 28 August 1896, Page 3

HAPPIEST OF ALL.

There is no time in the twenty-four hours when one ought to feel so thoroughly satisfied aud content aa immediately after a good hearty meal. And all healthy persons do feel so. The body's demands h-i've been met, and -we are easy and comfortable as though we had paid off an old dun and had money left. We are accessible, humane and good-

natttred. Then, if ever we will grant are qu-=si without grumbling. ' True benevolence' says a crusty old friend of mine, 'is located in a capable stomach "recently filled.' but what of the ine-pable stomachs of which there are so many ?—stomachs iha. disappm'nt and plague their owners, till the act of feeding, sj delightful to others, becomes an act to avoid the nee?saity of which they are almost willing to die ? Ah, tint is quite another thing. These poor souls are they who s-y; as Miss Wallace says in this letter of hers, ' I was no longer to be counted among those who have pleasure in eating. Far from it. As for me I was afraid to eat. I felt the need of food of course—the weakness and sinking that accompanied abstinence— but what was Ito do? The moment I ate my distress and pain commenced. No matter how light my repast -was, or how careful I was not to hurry in taking it, the re.ult was the same. The dis'ress and-gnawing pains followed, with discomfort in the chest, and a sense of choking, as if some bits of food had lodged there aud were irritating me. •" So objectionable and repugnant to hie was the act -of eating that for days together I didn't touch a morsel of solid food, subsisting entirely on milk and soda-water. Owiug to this enforced lack of nourishment I got extremely weak and about as thin as I could be. I must not forget to say that this Happened lo me, or rather it begin to happen in July 1886, when I 'Was' living at Wellington in Shropshire. It came on, as you may say. gradually and-not*with any sudden "or acute symptoms T found myself low. languid, and tired. Then came the friiure of my appetite and tbe other things-! have named. 'I took the usual medicines for indigestion, but they had no good After six months' experience of this kind of misery I read in a book about Mother Seigel's Sy;up as a remedy'for this disease, and got a bottle from Mr Bates, the chemist in Wellington. Having use-d it a few days I Ht relirf, and when I b. id consumed two bottles I was entire'y well. Since then I have heartily commended Mother's Seigel's Syrup to many friends, who have invariably been cured, as •I -was. Touliave my permission to publish my letter, if you desire to do so. (Signert) Minnie Wallace, Nursa; The Union Workhouse, Oldham, February 22nd, 1895. "In a communication dated January Bfch 1895, Mrs Henrietta McCallum of Diwnafi>ld Road, Walthamstow near states that her daughter Emma fell ill in the spring of 1886 with the same symptoms described by Miss Wallace. She craved food, yet when it was placed before her she tut ned from it almost with loathing. 'As time, went on,' so runs the mothers letter, 'my daughter so weak -she could hardly walk. Neitnerfcome medicines or those of the doctors d'd any gpdd. 'Her suferiogscontinued for over eight yeaTS. ' . '"Id June'lß94 she began taking Mother Seigel's Syrup of which we had? just read in a little book that was left at the house. In. a week she was bet! er, and in less than two months she was enjoying better health, than ever before. She has _injje ailed nothing and can eat any kind of food. (Signed) (Mrs) Henrietta McCallum. ' , •• '' ' Happy;' sings Homer, j' were they who foil under the high walls: of Tmy,".. .Happier are'they who have fallen under the weight of indigejit»«tf"or dyspepsia. Happiest, A cr h a ps, c_-'*atr are they who have been Hfted'Up by Mother? Seigel's remedy and rileced'whwe onfcragain they^cstM*._t drink and ,be merry-- And if all' these could, be gathered, together they' would make' a greater .host; than' tsbe Greek poet ever «*___«*_ of. ■ '