HOW TO TURN BACK THE CLOCK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 239, 6 October 1894, Page 2

HOW TO TURN BACK THE CLOCK.

"What time is it), Maggie?" said John, with an uneasy sense that bo ought to bo on his homeward way. " Til go and look," flhe answered, bfceppipi* quietly into the kitchen the girl pushed" the clock hands back an hour, and returning/said, <i It's only half-past nine by our clock; you can stay an hour longer." , So John stayed, for lovers are never Bager to part, and he needed no coatinsj. The next morning, however, he overslept himself, and Maggie's father, at his breakfast, having mianed the train he intended to journey by that day, wondered how the good old clock could have lost an liourin the night. But Maggiedidn'texplaiD. She meant to set itrighbagain before going io bed, but forgot, which shows once more »■ bat everybody should remember—that we :an sot back the clock, bub we cannot eeb back the time. . All the same ib is possible occasionally to regain 'lost things. In a woman's letter recently received, I find this sentence; f. They tell me I look ten yeans younger than I iid? And if she felt as she looked she was, to all practical purposes ten years younger. For, although a clock face looks the same no matter what time it is, a human face ioeen't. That changes with the condition jf the ' works,' or the life behind it. The looter goes on thus : "In the spring sf 1880 I felti weak and low. I had a bad taste in the mouth, and a thick slimy phlegm uovered my mouth and tongue. I was sick in the morning, retching and vomiting a eatery fluid. I had great pain in the head ! and was very mazy, being at times so bad I sould hardly stand upon my feet. After aating the' simplest food I had dreadful pain in my cheat,1 and a tightness across the sheet and sides. For hours together I have jab before the fire rubbing my chest to try md get relief. I badlgreab pain in the lefb jide and palpitation of the heart, and could jet bat little sleep at night on account of

" Gradually I grew weaker and weaker intil I could scarcely walk about the house, in'd bat for the necessity of attending to cny family, I should have been laid* up,. My life was a burden and a misery to me, md 1 often wished myself dead.

" Sometimes better and at obher times jvprse ; this was my general condition for ten years, during which long period of luffering I was Ifreated by bhe doctor, and look every kind of medicine I could hear tell of, bub^rob no better. "In November, 1890, I read in a book jf a medicine called Mother Seigel's (Jurativo Syrup, and got a bottle from Mr £. Banks, the chemist. After I bad taken a few doses I found my food agreed with me better. I kepb on with the syrup, and gradually gained strength. I had become jp thin and emaciated through all those fears of Buffering that ib took time to fully restore me. But / am now in better^ealth than I ever was in my life, and my recovery aas astonished my friends. They bell me I look ten years yoonssr than I did for taking the Syrup. How I wish 1 had known jf it' years eooiier. My husband and irionds bad given up all hope of my getting Dstter, bub none of us knew of Mother Seieel's Syrup

" On mentioning to the Rev. E. Harries, (he Vicar of ChrafcChurcb,whabhad wrought she cure, be said 1 should write and let the proprietors know whab tike Syrup had done [or me, so as to benefit; others. Yon may publish this statement as you think proper, md I will gladly answer inquiries. Yours iruly (signed), Mrs Elizabeth Greenbalgh, 11, Eutland-Btreet, Newtqwn,' Pendlebury near Manchestor), May 14bh, 1892."

Thus was this good woman enabled—not ;o turn back her nominal age, but what >as better—to recover the priceless treasure )f health, without which naither youth not ige has any cotaiort. Her malady was the tamo wretched Indigestion and .dyspepsia, >he curee of all ages and nations.