WHAT DREAMS MAY COME.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1372, 13 August 1895, Page 3

WHAT DREAMS MAY COME.

la a recent lecture at the Royal Institution, Dt B. W. Richardson says that the sleep of health is dreamless. " Dreams, says Shakespeare, "are children of an idle brain." If both tho doctor and the poet are right it follows that idle brains are unhealthy brains; fto doubt there might oe truth in the inference, but that is not quite the "point. Are all dreams si»n« of a diseased condition ? To this the doctor says "No." He divides dreams into two classes ; those started by noises or other causes outside the sleeper, and those produced by pain, f«yer, or indigestion. Here we inject a fact. We receive multitudes of letters containing this affirmation, almost in ■ identic il words : " / was worse tired in ike morning than when I went to bed. ", To. this .the doctor has an answer. He says, " When we feel wearied in the morning very likely it results Jrom dreams that we have forgotten." Quite so. In other words there is a bodily condition which may prevent a person from working by day at his usual calling, but obliges him to labor all night under a mental stimulus of which he knows nothing save by its resulting exhaustion. These unhappy wretches toil harder, therefore,,-for no compensation, when they are ill, th'an they have to do" to earn a living when they are well. What an infernal and frightful fact! And this too without taking into account their physical sifferiirg at all times. " Night," said Coleridge, "is my hell." , , , \ From one of the letters referred to we quote whar a woman says of her daughter : " She was worse tired in the morning than wJien she went to bed." Poor girl. Those "forgotten dreams" had tossed her about as a ship is tossed" in a tempest. Night was her day of labor. The mother's simplo tale is this : " In ; June 1890, my daughter Ann Elizabeth became low, -weak and fretful,, and complained of pain- in ~J>he chest after eating. Next her stomach was so irritable that she vomited all the food, she took. It was awful to see her heave and strain. For three weeks nothing, passed through her stomach except a little soda water and lime water. Later,ou, her feet and legs began to swell and puff from dropsy. She was now ; pale as death, and looked as though she had not a drop 6F blood in Her body, and was always cold, Month i after month dragged by and she got weaker every day v She could not walk without support, lor sbe had lost the proper use of her legs, and her body swayed from side to side as she moved. , A doctor attended her for twelve months, and finally said it was no- use giving her any more medicine as it would do mogood,. In May 1891, I took her to the Dewsbury Infirmary. She "got 1 no better there, and I thought I was 5 surely going to lose her. She was then thirteen years of age. ; One,day a lady (Mrs Lightoller) called at my shop, and seeing how , bad my daughter Was, spoke of a medicine exiled Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and persuaded lis to'try it; 'I got a bottle froih the Thornhill Lees Co-operative Stores,' and she began taking it. In two days she found a little relief; the sickness was not {So frequent. She kept oh the Syrup and steadily improved. Soon she was .strong • as; ever, and has since been in the beat of health and can take auy kind of food. , After she had taken the Syrup only two weeks the neighbors were, surprised At her improved appearance and I told them what had broughtUt about—that Seigel's Syrup had done what the doctors "could not do, it saved, her life. Yours truly, Sighed, Mrs Sarah Ann Sherap, 19 Brewery Lane, Thornhill Lees, near Dewsbury, October lltli 1592." The inciting cause of all this; young girl's pitful suffering was indigestion and dyspepsia s dropsy being; one of its most : dangerous symptoms. It attacks both youth and• ag£, its fearful and of ten fatal results being due to the fact that physicians usually treat the symptoms instead of the disease i.self. " A child's dreams," says Dr Richardson, '■are sighs of disturbed health and should be regarded with, anxiety.' ; The sauie is true of the dreams of older people. They, mean poison in the stomach and point to the immediate use of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. ' >