BE CAREFUL WITH THAT LAMP!

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2148, 30 April 1897, Page 2

BE CAREFUL WITH THAT LAMP!

I SINCERELY hope that Mra Filmer has abandoned the custom of keeping an oil lamp burning in her room at night*- She does not say what the necessity was, but I trust it no longer exists. If possible to avoid it, no light should burn in a room wherein people are sleeping. The reasons ought to be plain enough, yet we all need lessons in common cautron* Tins l.dy h»d hers, and was fortunate in coming out of the affair as well as she did.

Wri'iig about it she says : ' It waa in the summer of 1888, not 10112 affear the death of my husband* I had been used to keeping an oil lamp burning in my room for convenience during the wght. One nighi I accidenfcly overturned the hmp* and a blaze kindled iv an instant. Tenified half out of my wits I sprang itom bed, seized tho burning articles t»nd fan down stairs w th tnem just in time to prevent further disas'ev. Happily for me I escaped with sltght burns, bnfc not from consequences of another kind. 'The fright and sh'ck quite rated me Do what I would, after the d< tiger was all over, I was uaable to banish the subject from my thoagbtsi My nerves seemed completely unhinge.l, and I rapidly grew feeble, excitable and debilitated. My appetite failed and I had no relish for my ordinary food. There waa a bad taste in my mouth, headache, distress after eating, loss of tleah and ambition, with a disposition to worry and fret over things which, when 1 *as well, had no influence with me whatever I sought to build up my strength with beef tea and other nutritions and digestible forms of diet, but without anccessi

' The doctors whom I consulted said I was suffenng from nervous debility and weakness. They gave me preemptions which the chemist made tip for me , but they had no effect and what I suffered I have no words to tell you. My health appeared to have been all broken tip suddenly as a railway train goes to pieces ia a collision. Month after month I strU2g)ed with this strange ailment, but cou'd find no remedy to relieve me. Not until Jann-iry, 1887. did I see my way out of the trouble wqieh followed my adventu'e of that fearful night.

' At that tim« (January 1887) I chanced to come upon a little book about Mother Seig«l's Sjrap as a cure for indigestion and dyspepsia and the complaints attending iti Letters that were printed in that book from others . who had been cred by tltys remedy, gave me confidence, and I got a bottle from Mr J- H. Brown, patent medicine dealer, 15 High Street, Margate.. After taking it I felfc decidedly better. I could eat and digest needed focd; my nerves we>e more under con'rol, and I got better sleep and rest. I will merely add that, feeling sure Mother Se'gel'e Syruj) was helping me, I continued to take it, an , ! cv ntually tecoveied mybealtb. For this I thank Mother Seigel's Sytup; and if yon ih'mk b> singular »n experience as svine would be of interest or use to any one you may bare my consent to publish it. (Signed) (Mrs) C» L. Filmerj Thsnet Co tage, Draper's Kod, Marga'e, July 24th, 1895." Now I invite the reader's attention to n double fact: First (a b is daily shown in the r e articles), tb«t indigestion w>ll disorder and disease the neivous system; and (second) that a violent shock to the nervous system will prodace indigestion of a profound and intractable type- The latte? fact is illustrated by the case we are now considering. There is no space here to treat of it at lengths Let it suffice for the present that, ci her way, the jgrcejy moafc be addressed to the digoetion—

treats a eo-cslled f nervous 'disease a nervous disease. He seeks for the location o f the evil forco, wh'ch .is commouly fcbe stpmach , corrects that if ne and leav -s the nerve* to right themselves ac they always do. This is what Mother Sdgel's Syrnp did for Mrs Filiner, and wdl do for you, i* caee (which Providence ferbid) you are ever ovetthrown in like manner.