THE REASON FOR IT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 146, 21 June 1890, Page 6

THE REASON FOR IT.

Wherever men and women congregate it is frequently a subject for comment and discussion, *• Why do peoplesbow so little feympathy for their fellows undergoing a slow martyrdom of agony from neuralgia, rheumatism, toothache, or, perhaps, only a cold in the head ?" There can be no mistake about the amount of suffering which proclaims the presence of, say, a decaying toobh, or the throbbing, burping goading misery oL neuralgia; yet they elicit but scant sympathy for'the sufferer y while the abject wretchedness which characterises the possessor of a bad cold in the head is frequently the cause of very much more fun at the expense of the victim than of sympathy for his sufferings. Our grandfathers and grandmothers tell as that things were very different in the days when George the Third was King, and the only reasonable way in which to account for it is that in those days there was no known speedy and certain cure for such troublesome complaints. But with the advent of St. Jacobs Oil, whioh cures any and all of them promptly and permanently, there was no longer any necessity for the excess of sympathy, which has, therefore, been directed into a different channel, and is now kept principally for men who get married or have money left them in large quantities. But St. Jacobs Oil still keeps on curing all the troubles, as it did on its first introduction to a grateful world.