THE AUSTRALIAN'S RECKLESSNESS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXI, Issue 1043, 20 July 1894, Page 6

THE AUSTRALIAN'S RECKLESSNESS.

♦— — — - The Englishman and the Scotchman, and especially the latter, have much to say in and out of season, about the recklessness of the Australian, the ease with which he throws aside work for play, and his general improvidence. Especially against tha bush Australian do they level the accusation that he is, with few exceptions, a pereiodical drunkard ; that he can never earn a cheque without itching to spend it ; and that improvidence begins and ends in him. To judge superficially as the old worlders have done, without any knowledge or appreciation of Australian conditions, all the foregoing charges are true. But treat the subject intelligently and you find the Australian is just th& reverse. All that is wrong with him is: dyspepsia at the beginning, and later ore aggravated kidney diseases. The menu, of the bush is unvarying, which 'is in itself a bad thing, and of poor quality, which is vory much worse. Damper to the writ pr, and such damper as he uJ3ed to make, is a substance constituted mainly of flour, water bicarbonate of soda if you have it, no bicarbonate of soda if you haven't any, a little salt and a large fire. Six months of . such a diet finds the liushman surcharged with bilp ; his stomach coated with the ta::nin of the unspeakable tea ; his throat caked with the soot of sheepwash tobacco ; then he gets his cheque and winds up at the shanty. We have numberless instances of bush dyspepsia and fever having been completely cured by a few doses of the Cure. It gently stimulates the jaded system, and reorganises the disorganised functions. j Warner's Safe Cure is the one bush ! medicine