Little Davy Sloan is for ever asking questions. " You'd better keep still or something will happen to you," his tired mother finally told him one night. "Curiosity once killed a cat, you know." Davy was so impressed with this that he kept" silent for tliree minutes. Then : " Say, mother, what was it that the cat wanted to know?" Two men met on the 6treet. They hadn't seen each other for months. One of them had a wife who occasionally figured in the society columns. After they had exchanged views on things in general, the other man asked : "Is your wife entertaining this winter''" "Not verv," was the expressive reply.
DEFYING FATHER TIME. ♦
Time seems inopportune when ne brings a woman to the tarn of life. Life is, or should be, at its ripest and best for her, and she approaches this chance with a dread of its effect born
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>f her knowledge of the sufferings of v other women at this season. There is not the slightest cause for fear or anxiety at this period if Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills are taken occasionally to keep the system toned and the stomach in proper working order. Doctors prescribe them, nurses recommend them, and thousands of women who havo successfiAly and cheerfully passed through that stage can testify to tho value of these pills. Mrs Margaret Banfield, Thomas street, Mount Morgan, Q., says:— " During that period which occurs to all women when arriving at a certain agi in which the organism undergoes a change, I became very ill and suffered in a most distressing manner, and was incapacitated from work for a considerable time. I tried all kinds o{ medicines without results, and the doctor did not seem .to be doing me any good. At length I was persuaded to try Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills, and I am pleased to state that they did me a wonderful lot of good after the first few doses. These bad turns suddenly became less frequent after using Indian Root Pills, and now whenever I feel the hot flushes a dose of your wonderful remedy wards off tho attack. My daughter, who is just twenty-one years of age, has had much sickness in the past, now takes Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills, which overcame her weakness, and au occasional dose keeps her in perfect health. We always keep them in the uouse, and we would ooi be jdthoui. them*—£A/brfJ
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Evening Star, Issue 14575, 25 May 1911, Page 2
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