THREE FORTUNATE WOMEN.
We will introduce you to the oldest one first. Her name is Mrs Jessie Russell, and she lives near the city of New York, in America. She was born m London in 1787, and is therefore ;105 years old. She remembers many incidents of her childhood, and still has traces of former beauty. . Her eyes are bright, and become animated when she talks. She retains her meutal faculties completely. She descends two flights of sJairs to every meal, and returns without assistance. Up to three yearg ago she was a regular attendant at the Greenwood Baptist Church. Her sight is excellent, and she reads the newspapers every day, and takes great interest in the news from England. She has never had any severe illness in her life, and her appetite and digestion are almost as good as they were 50 years ago.
The second woman says : ' Ever since I was a child I have suffered from illness. Thirteen years ago a fciied, languid, and heavy feeling cauie over me. The whites of my eyes became tinged with yellow, my iikin was sallow; and my hands and. feefc were cold and clammy. My mouth tasted badly, especially in the morning, and I was ollten sick, vomiting a sour, frothy, fluid.- I had a pain in the chest and sides, heartburn and flatulency. For four years 1 suffered like this, and I shall be glad to recommend the medicine thafc finally cured me.' (Signed) (Mrs.) Frances Emily Smith, 49a, Woodhouse Street, Leeds, January 25th, 1892.
The third woman says : ' I have been delicate all my life. " For the past six- years I have always felfc tired, languid, and weak. I had a poor appetite, a bad taste in the mouth, and pain after every morsel I ate. I was dizzy, and. of ten felt as if I was going to fall. I always fe^ sick, and would refceh and strain, but could bring nothing up. There was a dull pain at the right side and a dreadful pain between the shoulders. I never knew what it was to be" well. After being on my feet for a time my legs would swell very much. No doctor was able to help me, nor any medicine ; that is, up to the time I took the one which gave me my health back. I never felfc so well in my life, as I do no<v.' (Signed) (Mrs.) Sarah Sharman, Glinton, near Market Deeping, February 19ih, 1892. , . l -
Why do we put these three women in a group — the one venerable woman in America and the two others herein England ? They are perfect strangers to one another and always will be. We do it to show how long and happily a woman may Jive i: she only happens to escape the malady thafc everywhere threatens her sex ; and also to show that those who have been buidened aud cursed with it may be cued and once more txcte the joys ol health.
Mrs Smith concludes her letter in these words : ' After taking three bottles of . IVouher Ser-el's Curative Syrup all pain a d sickness left me, and I knew r.o mOre of the ailment that had troubled me so long, indiges-' tion aud dyspepsia. I know others who have been benefited- by _tbe Syrup. All sufferers shoukl use it.'
Mis Shai man adds that after she had doctored and doctored and taken everything, almost without getting any good from it, Mr Websler, a grocer of Clinton, said, ' Why don't you use Mother Siegel's Oura'oive Syrjp V She acted on his suggestion, and health wasn't long in coming. ' I cannot speak too higl^y o2 Sergei's Syrup,' she says. We should., a^jree with her in tbe,b opinion, for a remedy that wi'l in a few weelrs put an er?d to a case of chronic indigestion and dyspepsia is ce^iain'y worth a good woid or two.
Now here you have Ihene three Englishwomen — : one so fortunate as to have lived more than a century without an iMnei's; the o the -.'8 (still more fortunate) have known ihe cadness of suffering and the pleasure o" recovery.
Oh, my ! oh, my ! how ha d it is to tell who is best off in this queer world.
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Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1025, 16 March 1894, Page 6
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708THREE FORTUNATE WOMEN. Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1025, 16 March 1894, Page 6
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