INFORMATION FOR WORKING WOMEN.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 2569, 19 December 1890, Page 3

INFORMATION FOR WORKING WOMEN.

Tt' is & boftst often beard that there are a greater variety of occupations open to women ! nowadays than ever before. Yet th* fact is not without its drawbacks, for women are than tempted into scores of positions for which they are not fitted, with much consequent misery. Thousands of girls, especially in America, aitallday hammering attype-writenr and telegrapb instruments, stand on their feet for a dozen hours at a stretch in fchopg and stores, and bend over desks at some sort of writing:, till their muscles and haa4 ache 4ck gether. In both England and America they Labour in f aciories long hours over hard and monotonous tasks, often in a fearfully bad atmosphere, and.for small wages. When they break down, the expense of having physicians, coupled with other costs of illness, is apt to consume their little savings. Therefor* any information which will enable them to lessen gueh an ontgo must be welcomed by the host of working .women. t . On thfe point a receot letter received by us mar throw a ray of light. The writer says : " When a woman has to depend upon her fingers solely for a living it is a terrible thing to fall ill, even though it may be only for. a few days or weeks. This was ray own situ* atioii when I was first taken bad about ten years ago. It began with what I shall nave to describe as a heavy, sinking feeling at the pit of the stomach, and a sensation of giddiness and faintness whilst at meals. On rising from the table I would often be attacked with palpitation of the heart, which beat so I didn't know what to do with myself. Some days I would not eat a mouthful of solid food, go much afraid was I of the pain it .gave me. X have gone without food for three consecutive days and nights, till I thought I must surely starve. At the same time the desire to eat was so great I could have clutched eagerly at the hardest piece of stale bread. I got so bad I had to lie in bed for days, and grew so weak I ooujd scarcely raise myself on my elbows. I consulted doctor after doctor; I think I must have had not less than a dozen altogther. One called my illness by one name, and the others by other names. No two of them agreed as to what itreally wa& that ailed me. None of them did me any, good, though my money wont fast enough to pay them, and to buy the medicine they ordered. , : , •' One day I saw in the r '• Christian Age " an account of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. Yet vow could I believe in it P I had trusted and hoped, and been deceived so often. Unlesri—which seldom happens— people get the right medicine at first, it is a wonder, to ate how they ever get it' at all. What' made me feel that Motner Seigel's remedy might be of some use I don't know ; but I think it was because it was discovered and made by s good woman who had been eared by It herself. At all events I sent lor it and began to take ifc. Up to the time when I write tali Utter I have taken it seven weeki, aid the ohaogt It kai produced has astooiahwi all who know me. TLe tain about. my heart is entirely gone, and I gain strflngta ererr dftyi" Notk.— The writer of the above letter fe* daeated that her name shouM not be published. We feel Dpund to respeot her wiahos, although we have no doubt sue will convent to oargiving her name and address to any of Her own sex who may desire to write to her, either directly or through/ us.

A somewhat sixnjjiar ca«e ii t|iat: of Mrs Annie West, of Maiior Road, "Bournemouth, Hants, who writes under a later date: "I desire to inform you of my wonderful recovery after taking Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. I was so low as to be unable to rise from my bed, aud thought I should never stand on my feet again. But, by the blessing of God, and the use of the Syrup, I am so far recovered as to be able to return to ray work. lam a poor widow and have to work for my living, and ha^e on one or two occasions sold, some of my own things to buy Seigel's Syrup. For years I«ould,not keep any food down and suffered from terrible headaohe. Now that I am wellonce more, I shall soon earn back a hundred times over the prioe of the aood medioine that drove away my complaint. 7 '