UNAVAILING REGRET.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 7927, 2 August 1886, Page 3

UNAVAILING REGRET.

• Towards the close of life—no matter how virtuously that life may have been spent—regrets of greater or less intensity are experienced by all. It may be for what we did, or it may be for what we left undone, but the bitterness of despair can only be realised by those who neglected to prolong their lives, protect their credit, and add to the happiness of all around them by an intelligent use of St Jacobs Oil. PETTY WORRIES. The heaviest strokes of misfortune are borne by some men without wincing; they have nerve enough at least to hide their troubles from the public gaze and bear a brave front to the outside world, no matter how great their actual suffering may be. But the petty worries of life are the ones which try even the strongest natures, and break down the most determined wills. The giant in nerve, who can bear sickness, pain, sorrow, suffering, and poverty without any visible sign of distress, will break down sooner or later under a succession of petty annoyances—the mosquito bites of life—which he can neither guard against nor avenge. The man who can calmly. endure these is the real hero. There is no | cure for most of them; but there is an alleviator for many, easily obtainable, cheap, and certain. St Jacobs Oil is the recognised conqueror of pain, and with a sound body it is astonishing how trivial all other afflictions seem, and with. what comparative ease they are shaken off. The man who can illustrate the old proverb by bearing the sufferings of his neighbour with fortitude, may bear his own equally as well by the aid of this wonderful remedy.