"LET THE ELDER GO FIRST."

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 80, 1 October 1904, Page 14

"LET THE ELDER GO FIRST."

I The male joker is never weary of exercising his wit on the subject of women's efforts to look as. youthful as possible, although such efforts are the outcome of a perfectly natural desire against which no reasonable objection can be urged. Besides, if we read human character .alight, a man is no better pleased at discovering a bald patch on his crown, or grey hairs in his- moustache, than is a woman when her glass first informs her that her face is wrinkled. 'Twas ever thus. So long ago as the day of the Emperor Charles V., when two ladies of his court contended for precedence, that sagacious monarch settled the difficulty at once for ever by saying : "Let the elder go first." There was no recurrence of the dispute. Of 'course there would not be. The only legitimate object of satire in respect of woman's desire to look young is the roundabout, expensive, and altogether fallacious method by which she so frequently /seeka to accomplish her purpose; which ia strange, seeing the matter is perfectly simple. A healthy woman of 25 will appear no older than she is— very probably three or four years younger. A woman .of 25 who is out of health will generally appear somewhere between 30 and 35. Nothing wears down the face sooner than chronic dyspepsia, nor rejuvenates it co quickly as ite antidote, Mother Siegel's Curative Syrup. "Four years ago I was suffering extremely from indigestion and constipation," writes Mrs. J. Rae, of Ascot Vale, Victoria, under date 23rd December, 1903. "Food, instead of nourishing •me, used to cause sickness. I was very thin and weak, and had frequent painful headaches, flushes of heat, heartburn, and attacks of nervousness. Though drowsy and without energy by day, ab night I had no inclination for sleep. "Such was my state of health when a little booklet vras left at my house containing descriptions of a number of cases similar to my own where the sufferers had been cured by Mpther Seigel's Syrup. I was so much impressed by what I read, that I decided to try, what that medicine could do for me. I had almost finished the first bottle before I began to feel the benefit of it; but then my appetite revived, I could retain food without any feeling of nausea, and the indigestion gradually abated. Returning health and strength, soon proved to my (satisfaction the truth of all that has been said in praise of Mother Seigel'a Curative Syrup. My cure is complete. But I always keep the ' Syrup by me. It is invaluable in this variable climate." The victim of indigestion not only suffers misery, but exhibits every sign of premature age. When the complaint is ' overcome, the patient looks many years younger than before.