A Subject for Thought.

Evening Star, Issue 8772, 12 March 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

A Subject for Thought.

It is no simple matter to state in terms at all precise what forces are directly connected with the production of hale and happy old age. More, certainly, is involved in the process than mere strength of constitution. Healthy curroundings, contentment, and active, temperate, and regular habits are most valuable aids. Hard work, so long at leatt as it is not carried beyond the limit necessary to permit of the timely repair of worn tissues, is not only harmless, but a conducive circumstance. It is, in fact, by living aB far as passible a life in accordance with natural law that we may expect to reap the appropriate result in its prolongation. Great care should be taken to protect the system against the changes which disease makes therein; coming misery casts iU shadows before it and intimates its approach by various signp, as a feeling of general weakness, neuralgic pains, nervous beadaches and rising of sour wind from the stomach, backache and lumbago, failure of virility and gradual diminution of mental power and similar symptoms, all tend to show that general debility is increasing in the patient's system. Such persons should take notice of the experience of Mrs C. Whittington, 11 Coventry place, South Melbourne, who for some years was afflicted with excessive nervous prostration, and who writes:— *• I have been suffering over four years with noises in my head, caused by a fright a few days after confinement. During the whole of this time the least excitement would make me very nervous, and it was with great difficulty that I could do my household work, and have scarcely ever had a proper night's rest, being continually disturbed with terrible dreams. I tried many remedies and was also under medical treatment, but nothing did any good until a friend recommended Clements' Tonic. I took a large bottle, and have much pleasure in testifying to the good it haß done me; the noises in my head are removed and I can rest at night now, and am fully convinced that Clements' Tonic does all that is claimed for it, and I recommend it to all I come in eontact with, suffering as I have done." Clements Tonic is sold everywhere. Offices and Laboratories, 212 A'Beckett street, Melbourne and at Sydney.—[Advt ]