THEY MUST AGREE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 277, 22 November 1899, Page 6

THEY MUST AGREE.

As to matters that have no practical outcome it is of no consequence whether agree or not. The earth may be, as some say it. is, a molten, mass (save for a shell a -few miles thick ou .the ontside), or it may be solid and cool a.ll the way through from London to Sydney. However it may be, we can do nothing about it. So let the scientific chaps go on speculating to their heart's content; the world will keep revolving .as usual, and we shall have to continue picking up our living from its surface.

Recently in my reading I have come upon articles in certain medical journals —uncanny, uninteresting publications, that they are, for nonprofessional perusal—going to show thalt it is not the heart, which impels the blood through the body, but the chemical action of oxygen inhaled by the lungs. A prodigious discovery, if it is a discovery at all.

Yet what odds would it make? None whatever. Fair women would blush by the help of the capillaries as of old, a?nd we should tie rags around cut- fingers just the same. It follows, my brethren, that some things may be mysteries to the end of the chapter, and no barm done, and others may differ without disturbing the serenity of our passing days—a most soothing reflection. .

But the advantage or otherwise of a person's food agreeing- or disagreeing with him is not a mere matter of opinion. There is only one way to look at that. As a whole, food must agree with us, and we with it, or we are ruined. A lady of Sheffield, Mrs S. A. Smith, suffered a long, wearisome, and costly illness simply because her food failed to, agree with her. For three years she was weak and wreJtched on accounlt of it. The light and pleasure went out of her life. She needed to eat, of course, just as she needed to breathe; yet, after every meal —commonly of light things taken in small quantifies, and slowly—she was immediately seized with pains in the stqmach, the chest, and the left side. Was not this a hard recompense for doing what nature compelled her to do —to eat?

Any act: Which causes pain is performed as seldom as possible, and as incompletely. For who wants to suffer?

Eating so little —not half as much as her body called for—Mrs Smith lostflesh and strength. Necessarily. Draw more money out of the bank than you deposit and presently 'the Jbank. returns your cheques marked

"No funds." To be sure. Nobody can make twice two equal five.. "I got to be so feeble I could scarcely get about," says the lady. "I was like this for three years from the spring of 1893—being worse in the spring than at other seasons. What to do more than I had done, I didn't know, when one day, my aunt Mrs William AndreAV, of Willoughton, urged me to take Mother Seigel's Syrup. After having done so for a short time, the complaint—indigestion'—was better, and soon it wholly disappeared. I am now entirely cured and strong and hearty as I was before my illness came upon me. You may rest assured thrift, after so fortunate an experience with' Mother Seigel's Syrup, I recommended it to all my friends, and in sending yon this short statement it is tny wish that you should print it for the good of others if you so desire."— (Signed) S. A. Smith, 44, Ditchingham Road, Sheffield, ,Tune 3, 1898.

"In April of this year (1898)," say* another, "my health began Ito fail., I felt drowsy, and tired with the leant exertion. After every meal I had oppression at the chest and sides, and a great deal of pain. Whatever food; I took disagreed with me, and I grew weak. I am a dressmaker, and when alt my work I had so great pain I could hardly bear it. I tried all the usual medicines for indigestion, but got worse and worse. One day in July, I ■read about Mother Seigel's Syrup, and got a bottle of Mr Hatters-ley, chemist, West India Dock Road, and in a few days felt better. After taking a second bottle I was cured, and have been well ever since." —(Signed) (Miss) Minnie Wyatt, 46, West India Dock Road, London, E., October 14, 1898.

Yes, it is true, health and life depend on a perfect agreement between ourselves-and our food. This is not a matter of opinion. It is a vital and living relationship, and nothing does so much to promote the agreement as the frequent and timely use of Mother Seigel's Syrup.