WHAT MAKES THEM CRY?

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIX, Issue 11542, 31 March 1898, Page 6

WHAT MAKES THEM CRY?

You have a very sore finger, let us say. It may be a hurt, a boil—or, worse still, that fearfully painful thing, a felon. Oh, my! oh, my! What a time you have been trying to protect that poor finger. It is all the time getting hit, or knocking against something. Simply to keep it out .of harm’s way worries you more than doing- a day’s work; and you don’t suceeed—and you wouldn’t, even with a dozen policemen to help you. You are scared of a fly threatening to light on it. That'is the principle on which Mrs Elizabeth Allen couldn’t bear the least noise. She had no sore finger, but she had what was still more sensitive—a body full of sore nerves; weak, starved, unstrung nerves. So the prattle of children, the closing of a door, the momentary roar of a waggon in the street, the clatter of dishes in the kitchen, the thousand and one sounds and noises that are in the air constantly—why,'the smallest of' them struck : her like a blow from a club. Noises which, are not regarded by a well person are like volleys of musketry to one in this condition. Millions of women know all about it, and plenty of men, too—crowds of them. You recognise them on sight—those who are subject to this affliction. Their lined foreheads, their bright, suspicious eyes, .their self-protecting gestures ' and manner; —you’ve seen - them. , Perhaps you are one i of them" yourself. ■ If so, ;you’d give - all > your money and mortgage your future to * have -a ’-stronger- of -nerves; .-wouldn’t you P Let’s talk about it two minutes, first quoting.,the lady’s letter, which is dated May llth; IS’93; and written from’;'-her . home, 263, Syston Street, Leicester. | “ For many years,” she says, “ I suffe from indigestion and weakness. After meals I had a -great pain at my chest. Every few days I had an attack of sick headache, and had to be constantly lying ; down on the couch ; I strained and heaved a good deal, and spat up a sour nauseous ’ fluid. As time went bh I got very weak and nervous, and couldn’t bear , the least , noise.

“ I took all sorts of medicines and consulted doctors, but nothing did me much good. Later on I came to hear of Mother Seigel’s Curative Byrup, and after taking jt a short time, the disease left me, and I was able to relish and digest. my foqd. Owing to the \irtuo of this remedy I nbw keep in good health.. (Sighed) Elizabeth Allen.” - . . . ■

And here is Mr W. Nash, who says:. “ For fully ten years I suffered from periodic attacks of biliousness. At times a .severe headache, - preceded by excessive drowsiness ; at othieF'times vomiting, and refhliing fpr a -yiboie.dhy ; at v ot’^ertimes sightlessness, pain in the chest, sidejjahd stomach, coated tongue and ; rbad that was the 1 way it acted with me. I grew very melancholy, and was not iable.to follow my business, I consulted’ doctors and used tonics, &c., but they only made me worse, . ; ■

“I had constantly heard of.your, wonderr ful remedy. Mother Seigel’s Syrup, but didn’t believe in it. Then 1., read in Wit and . Wisdom of a case like mine that the Syrup had-cured; so I tried ,it,- and the first bottle acted like inagio. The pains left me the first week, I repeated my food no more, and in a month all my ills were gone. Bless Mother Seigelfor ever, I say.— Yours gratefully, (Signed) W. Nash, 331, Goswell Road," E.C., London, Oct. ‘,2, 1893.”

Now, where is there room enough on paper to sufficiently praise a medicine that will do what this one did for-these two good friends of ours ? All pain, remember, is nervous pain, and in the above case it was the foul and inflamed stomach which, by stopping -digestion, starved' the nerves and made them' cry out. What won’t cry out-when it is starved? Babies will, men will,.women will, nerves will. Mother Seigcl’smedicine set iii J order and tfib uerves soriie food. -Thenwhat? Why,-quiet, comfort,strength, rest, .enjoyment. “ Bless Mother Seigel,” indeed.