TOO STIFF TO WALK.

Evening Star, Issue 12900, 24 August 1906, Page 2

TOO STIFF TO WALK.

RHEUMATISM AND LUMBAGO. MRS JANE WELSH, KAITANGATA. CRIPPLED HAND AND FOOT. NIMBLE AS EVER TO-DAY. DR WILLIAMS’ PINK PILLS. “ The Rheumatism across my shoulders was so bad that I couldn’t do half an hour’s ironing if you paid he,” said Mrs Jane Welsh, of Kaitangata. “ The first thing I knew, the pain and stiffness got into my back and legs. Before the winter was out I was crippled hand and foot, and couldn’t walk a step. Nothing did me any good at all till I tried Dr Williams’ Pink Pills, and they set me on my feet again as nimble as ever 1 was. “I have been living in Kaitangata these thirty odd years,” said Mrs Welsh, “and I suppose my husband is ns well known as any man in the town. There weren’t many that could boast of any better health than I had up to six or seven years ago. Bar a touch of rheumatics now and again, when there was a change of weather, I never bad any cause to grumble up till then. It was something new for me when I went oif my food. By the time dinner was dished up I didn’t care if I never ate a bite of it. They used to tell me that I didn’t take enough to keep body and soul together. There wasn’t a bit of go left in me. Some days I was just able to drag through the day, and that’s all. By night time every bono in my body was aching. I went to bed fair dona out. The worst of it was I couldn’t sleep when I got there. All night long I tossed and turned. Next morning I was more tired than ever. My blood was all run down, and I hadn’t the strength of a child. It was nothing but my strong will that kept me going. “That winter the Rheumatism came on ten times worse than I ever had it before,” added Mrs Welsh. “It caught me across the shoulders, and I could never tell you how I suffered. When I woke in tho morning I was so stiff and sore that I couldn’t move an inch. It couldn’t have been worse if I had been beaten black and blue. Every move was agony. But tho house wouldn’t look after itself, so I bad to bo up and doing. As the day wore on, my shoulders might case up a bit, but it was just as bad, or worse, next morning. Little by little the pain spread down my back. It settled just above my hips, and I could never get rid of that dull, gnawing ache day or night. It would have killed me if I had tried to sweep out a room. It got so bad, that I couldn’t even turn in bed. “It wasn't long before my knees began to get stiff,” Mrs Welsh went on. “The pain got down into my joints, and I went through agony every time I took a step. Whenever we had a spell of bad weather I nearly went mad with what I suffered. The pain had my legs so stiff and crippled that it was all I could do to crawl about the bouse from room to room. You never saw a woman in such a plight. Walking was out of the question. When I sat down I couldn’t get up again till someone gave mo a hand, and then I had to cry out with the pain. I tried every mortal thing that I ever heard was good for Rheumatism, but not one of them gave me any case. Evcrv week I got worse and worse. In the end I was nothing but a cripple. I gave up hope, and made sure that I was going to bo a martyr to Rheumatism for the °resl of my days. “ Dr Williams’ Pink Pills ■were the only thing that saved me from that fate,” added Mrs Welsh. “A friend, of mine made me promise to give them a fair trial, and Mr Welsh wont down to the chemist here in Kaitangata and got me half a dozen boxes. In a week I got back my old relish for mv meals. Everyone said‘that that showed Dr W ill lam s' Pink Mils were suited to my case. But I was well on with the third box before I could see that thev were doin rr my Rheumatism any good. 'Then, bit bv bit, the pains in my legs cased up, and I began to get about the house again. Before long all the stiffness went out of my shoulders, until there wasn’t a sign of the Rheumatism left. And all this time I was getting stronger and stronger, till I felt I could do a hard day’s washing and never feel it. At last I was ms nimble as any woman ten years younger could ask to be. From that day to this I have never had a touch of Rheumatism, even in the worst winter weather, so that shows that Dr Williams’ Pink Pills cured me for food.” Ur Williams’ Pink Pills do only one thing, but they do it well—-thev actually make new blood. They don’t act on the bowels. They don’t tinker with meresymp toms. They won’t cure any disease that wn fc caused .originally by bad blood. But when Dr Williams’ Pink Pills replace bad blood with good blood they strike straight at He root and cause of aU common, diseases like headaches, sideaches, and backaches, kidney trouble, liver complaint, biliousness, indigestion, amentia, neuralgia, sciatica, nervous exhaustion, failing powers, locomotor ataxia, and the special secret troubles that every woman knows but that none of them like to talk about, even to their doctors. Dr Williams’ Pink Pills are sold by retailers and the Dr Williams’ Medicine Co., Wellington, 3s a box, six boxes 16s 6d. post free. Medical advice free.-—[Advt.]