INFORMATION FOR WORKING WOMEN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5979, 3 November 1890, Page 4

INFORMATION FOR WORKING WOMEN.

It is a boast often heard that there are a greater variety of occupations open to women nowadays than ever before. Yet the fact is not'without its drawbacks, for women are thus tempted into scores of positions for which they are not fitted, with much consequent misery. Thousands of skirls, especially in America, sit all day hammering: at typo-writers and telegraph instruments, stand on their feet for a dozen hours at a etroteh in shops and stores, and bend over desks at somo sort of writing, till their muscles and head ache together. In both England and America they labor in long hours over hard and monotonous tasks, often in a fearfully bad atmosphere, and for small wages. When thny break down, tho expense of having physicians, coupled with other costs of illness, is apt to consume their little savings. Therefore any information which will enable them to lessen such an outgo must be welcomed by the host of working women On thN point a recent letter received by us may 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 bo only for a few days or weeks This was my own situation wheu I was first taken bad about ten years ago. It be* an with what I shall have to describe as a heavy sinking feelinsr at. the pit of the stomach, and a sensation of jTiddiness and fnintncw whilst at meals. On rising from the table I would often be attacked" will palpitation of tho heart which bout so I didn't know what to do I with myself. Some days 1 would not eat a mouthful of solid food, so much afraid was I of the pain it sravo me. I 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 pi> "■) of stale bread. I got so bad I had to lie in bed for days, and grow so weak I could scircely raise myself on my elbows. I consulted doctor after doctor : I think I muat hiivo had not less than a dozen altogether. One called my illness by one name, and tho others by other names. No two of them agreed as to what it really was that ailed me. None of them did mo any cood, though my money went fast enough to pay them, and to buy the medicine they ordered. '• One d«v I saw in tho Christian Acre an account of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. Yet h)W could I believe in it? I had trusted and hoped, and been deceived so often. Unless — which seldom happens — people iret the right medicine at first, it is a wonder to me how they ever get it at nil. What made me feel'that Mother Seigel's remedy miirht be of some u«e I don't know ; but i think it was beeiuso it was discovered and made by a good woman who had been cured by it hers»lf. At all events I sent for it and began to take it. Up to tho time when [ write this letter I have taken it seven weeks, and the change it has produced has astjiiished all who know me. The pain about my heart is eutirely gone, and I gain strength every day." Notk.—The W rilcr of tho above letter requested that her r.iime should not be published. Wo feel bound to respect her wishes, although we have no doubt s-hc will consent to our iriving her name and addrcsn to any of her own sex who may desire to write to her, either directly or through us.

A Bomowlmt similar case is that of Mrs

Annie West, of Manor road, Bournemouth, flint*, who writes under ft late date : " I desire to inform you of my wonderful recovery after taking Mother Scijrel'H Curative Syrup. I was so low as to be unable to rise from my bed, and thought I should never stand on my feet it gain. But by tho blo-sing of God, and the use of tho Syrup, I am so far recovered as to be able to return to my work. lam a poor widow and liavo to work for my living, and have on one or two occasions sold some of my thinsrn to buy Seiwel'H Syrup. For years I could not keep any food down nnd suffered from terrible hetidaeho. Now that lem well once more, I shall soon earn back a hundred times over tho price of tho <rood medicine that drove away my complaint."