NOSTALGIA.

Feilding Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 141, 13 December 1902, Page 4

NOSTALGIA.

Nostalgia ia not an English word. Jnfortunately we have no word in onr anguage which conveys precisely the ;arne meaning, hence its use in this )lace. " Home-sickness " won't do, r or that may be taken to signify disgust with one's home and a desire to cave it, whereas nostalgia means the onging or pining for one's original home md a renewal of the sweet companship af " the old familiar faceß." Nostalgia is very prevalent in all newly-eettled countries, but its symptomß are not defined with sufficient clearness to allow of its classification as a distinct ailment. • Like other forms of mental worry, it not unfreqnently prodnces suffering of a kind wi6h which everybody is more or less familiar. When two years ago Mr T. Blamires, of 46, Jeffrey's Street, North Shore, Sydney N S.W., began to suffer from indigestion, had it been possible for him to have inhaled the delightful sea breezes of Scarborough and feasted his eyes on the fresh greenness of tho Yorkshire hills, he would doubtless have escaped much, but not all of the misery, attending that complaint. Bui Mr Blamires 1 duty kept him far from his native England. " While in Queensland during June, 1900," says Mr Blamires, ■' my occupation obliged me to constantly travel through the bnsh districts of that State. The coarse fare provided at the bush hotels com bined with the strain and worry inseparable from travelling through those thinly populated districts disordered my system and brought on a severe attach of indigestion. For several months I suffered greatly from that dreadful malady, some of my symptoms beiDg distension of the stomach after eating, gnawing pains at the chest, palpitation of tbe heart, and occasional attacks of diarrhoea alternating with periods of constipation, resulting Generally in extreme nervous debility, I was advised to try the hot w»*ter cure, and did so, but found it powerless to benefit me ; and the numerous mixtnres prescribed by various -loctors and chemists which I took from time to time, were attended with no better result. At one time I feared that I was suffering from beart disease, and to eatisfy myself on that important point I consulted a doctor in Brisbane. After studying my case with great thoroughness, tbe Brisbane doctox asserted that my heart was cot affected and that my trouble was a severe attack of indigestion. His diagnosis was correct, yet his treatment entirely failed to touch my complaint. " While I was in this deplorable I state of health several persons advised me to try Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, stating that they bad themselves been cured of indigestion by it ; but for a long time I gave little heed to what they eaid, preferring, if possible. I to find a remedy in my own way. When, however, by repeated failures it become clear tbat I was unable to do this, I determined to give Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup a trial. With no great hope of any better result than bad attended my former efforts, I j bought a bottle from a storekeeper, and after taking a few doses of it was agreeably surprised to find that it was doing me good. Rejoiced at tbis unexpected good fortune, I determined to continue its nee. but found by the time I had taken four bottles I was thoroughly cured of my trouble and felt like a new man. In all honesty and with tbe utmost confidence I heartily recommend Mother SeigePs Curative Sjrup to all who snfftr from indigestion and its kindred com plaints. My business occasions me to , travel extensively throughout the Australian States, and since my experience of its efficacy, 1 should be sorry^jver to be unprovided with it." More convincing testimony than that of tbis genial Yorksnireman it would be bard indeed to find.