A CLEAN CUT INDIVIDUAL OPINION, BOLDLY EXPRESSED. 1 It is for this reason that an assertion like the following sticks up above the dead level of our stupid talk, and bacomes noticeable; " WnEy I saw IIOW PALE I HAD QKOWN I SAID TO MY- ( SEI.F, IT WAS BECAUSE SOMETHING HAD j GONE OUT OF MY BLOOD." There! that is a statement with the seed itf an idea in it. Suppose we follow it up by quoting the rest of the letter which contains it. In December, 1890, says the writer " I fell into a poor state of health. I was tired, languid, and weary without any apparent cause. My appet : t? left nie, and all food, even the lightest and simplest kinds, caused me great pain in the chest and stomach. "When I saw how pile I had grown I said to myself it was because something had gone out of my blood. " Then my sleep was broken, nnd night after night I scarcely closed my eyes. It wasn't long before I became so weak and dejected that I took no interest in things around me. I was so nervous that common sounds annoyed and worried me; even the noises made by my own children in their talk and at their play. "There was a disgusting taste in my mouth : it made mo sick, and often gave me a shivering sensation all over. When I saw others eating and enjoying their meals I felt ns though it were a strange thing; in a way I wondered how they could do it. For myself I could eat hardiy anything. Food went against me, and I turned away from it, as one turns from smells or sights that are offensive. And vet I knew, what everyono knows, that without sufficient food the body languishes and weakens And sucn was the case with me as month after montb went by. " During all this time, so full of pain and discouragement, I was attended by a doctor who did what be could to relieve me. but without success. Ido not say he did not understand my complaint; for may he not have understood it without having the means of curing it?" The answer to the lady's question is : Yes easily enough. All intelli--1 gent, studious doctors "understand" consumption, cholera, cancer, &c.. without (as yet) having the means of 1 puring them. There is usually a wide ! gap between the discovery of a want and the way to supply it. " I will now," continues the letter, " tell how I came to be cured. In April, 1891, I read in a small book or pamphlet about Mother Seigel's Syrun, The book said the Syrup was n.
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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 180, 13 May 1896, Page 3
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450Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 180, 13 May 1896, Page 3
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