WHAT DREAMS MAY COME.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1373, 20 August 1895, Page 6

WHAT DREAMS MAY COME.

In a recent lecture at the Koyal Institution, Dr. B. W. Richardson says that the sleep of health is dreamless. “Dreams,” says Shakespeare, “ are children of an idle brain.” If both the doctor and the poet are right it follows that idle brains are unhealthy, brains, No doubt there might ho truth in the inference, but that is not quite the point. Are all dreams signs 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, fever, or indigestion. Here we inject a fact. We receive multitudes of letters containing this affirmation, almost in identical words: “/ was worse tired in the 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 from 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, than 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 suffering at all times, “ Night, said Coleridge, “ is my hell.” From one of the letters referred to we quote what a woman says of her daughter : “ She was worse tired in the morning than when 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 simple tale is this : “In June 1890, my daughter Ann Elizabeth became low, weak and fretful, and complained of pain in the 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 on, 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 of blood in her body, and was always cold, Month after month dragged by and she got weaker every day. She could not walk without support, lor she 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 no good. In May 1891, I took her to the Dewsbury Infirmary, She got no better there, and I thought I was 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 called Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup, and persuaded us to try it, I got a bottle from 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 on with the Syrup and steadily improved. Soon she was strong as ever, and has since been in the best of health and can take any 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 brought it about—that Seigel’s Syrup had done what the doctors could not do, it saved her life. Yours truly, ' Signed, Mrs Sarah Ann Sheba b,' 19 Brewery Lane, Thornhill Lees, near Dewsbury, October 11th 1892.” The inciting cause of ail this young girl’s pitful suffering was indigestion and dyspepsia dropsy being one of its most dangerous symptoms. It attacks both youth and age, its fearful and often fatal results being due to the fact that physicians usually treat the symptoms instead of the disease itself. “ A child’s dreams,” says Dr Richardson, '•are signs of disturbed health and should be regarded with anxiety.” The same 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 Symp.

Messrs Fitzgerald Bros., the wellknown circus proprietors, who left New Zealand some months ago tor the purpose of picking up novelties in America and England, expect to return to the colony via Australia before the end of the year.

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The goldfields carnival, the drapery ’ i epreeentative of the golcldelds.— W. Talboya of the London House, Cromwell, Alexandra, Roxburgh, and Lawrence is now holding a carnival for the people in above centres. It is a well-known fact that in all these places the. stocks of drapery, clothing, and boots are unlimited, and that it is purchased in the best markets so as to give tne public the best value and newest styles lor their money. W. Talboys, finding that lus s'cocka are far too large, and that the shoe pinches in the shape of shortness of casf.i, is now offering goods at unprecedented tor v prices. Bills of particulars are circula'ted throught the goldfields, and those v horn we have not done business with l.jetore, should now write for a trial parcel, they will find the country can compete with the town for value and quality. W, T, does not purchase low class stuff to advertise, but offers genuine goods at astonishing prices. Many lines we could not put in the bill will be quoted in the local papers. Childrens’ boots from Is ; ladies’ boots and shoes 7s 6d, worth T2s 6d; ladies’ jersey jackets Is lid ; kid gloves 2s ; paget coats 12s 6d, usual price 50s ; beaver coats from ss; boys’ trouser suits 10s 6d. Full particulars will appear iu front page of this pa per next week. Call early, those who cannot inspect the goods will have their m< mey returned if they are not pleased with goods sent, W. Talbojs, Loudon House, Cromwell, Alexandra, Koxburgh, Laweu gc,—[Abvx.j