WHAT EMPEROR WAS THIS?

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2090, 31 January 1896, Page 6

WHAT EMPEROR WAS THIS?

He was one of the greatest monarchs that ever ruled in Europe. He was always at war yet—but wait; let us take one thing at a time.

He was an enormous eater. He breakfasted at five on a foul seethed in milk and dressed with sugar and spices. After this he went to sleep again. He dined at twelve, always partaking of twenty dishes. He supped twice ; first early in the evening and again about one o'clock—the latter the most solid meal of the four. After meat he ate a great quantity of pastry and sweets, washing them down with vast draughts of beer and wine. Then he would gorge himself on sardine omelettes, fried sausages, eel pies, pickled partridges, fat capons, &c., &c. Finally he aMicated, did this omnivorous Emperor, and a friendly courtier thus described the power that compelled him to do it. "'Tisa most truculent executioner," said the orator ; " it invades the whole body from head to foot. It contracts the nerves with anguish, it freezes the marrow, it converts the fluids of the joints into chalk, and paused not until it has exhausted the body and conquered the mind by immense torture." He was crippled in the neck, arms, knees, and hands, and covered with chronic skin eruptions ; while his stomach occasioned him constant suffering. He was a wreck at an age when he should have still been active and vigorous. Thi9 is not fiction, it is history ; without a syllable of exaggeration. How many of our readers will write and tell us what man this was ? A thousand, no doubt. Alack-aday ! however. Not kings and emperors alone are thus afflicted. Great hosts of us travel the same road. We are not usually gluttons as this royal gentleman was, but people who eat sparingly often have thosame malady. Commonly they iuherit a tendency to it. On the level of this dreadful disease the rich and the poor, the great and the small, meet together. Speaking of an experience of her own, a woman says : " My hands became stiff and numb. There seemed to be no feeling in them. I was so crippled that I could not even cut a round of bread. A little later it attacked my legs and feet, the soles of the latter being very tender and sore. The pain was so severe that I often sat down and cried on account of my sufferings and my helplessness. I used rubbing oils and embrocations, but got no relief. In this way I went on month after month, never expecting to be well again. 1 felt the first signs of illness in February, ISS9. At first I had merely a bad taste in "the mouth, no appetite, and was low tired and languid. Following this came the agonies of rheumatism, as I have said. I owe my recovery to a suggestion of my husband's. He advised me to try Mother Seigel'B Curative Syrup, and got me a bottle from Mr W. Simpson's, in North Street. After taking it for a fortnight my hands got their right feeling, and I suffered no more from rheumatism, nor indigestion and dyspepsia, which I now understand to be the cause of rheumatism. From that time to this I have been in the best of health. (Signed) (Mrs) Elizabeth Ann Cook, Southwell Lane, North Street, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, February Ist, 1893 " " In the year 1879,'' writes another, " rheumatism attacked me, one joint after another. The pains were all over me, although the worst was in one knee. For two years I suffered with it—the doctor's medicines doing no good. Iu 1881 I read in a little book that rheumatism was caused by indigestion and dyspepsia, and that the true cure for it was Mother Seigel's Syrup. This proved to be true, as after taking three bottles I knew no more of stomach disorder or rheumatism. I have since recommended this wonderful remedy to hundreds of persons. (Signed) (Mrs) E. Schofield, 10, West Hill, Southhampton Street, Reading, October' 26, IS9'2.'' The great Emperor was driven toabdiction by rheumatism and gout, caused by his ruined digestive powers. His outraged stomach filled him from top to toe. \et he never lost his appetite, which was all the worse for him. Not long afterwards he died, having asthma and gravel, with the other consequences of dyspepsia. But one needs not to l>e a gourmand to have dyspepsia, and its j trailing troubles. Any one of fifty causes mav provoke it. Watch out for the earliest symptoms, and arrest them at once by using the Syrup. It stops the mischief on the spot where it begins, and then purities the blood. By the aid of common sense and Mother ! beigel the Emperor might have stayed on his j throne, he not ?

Yes, but unluckily she wasn't born in time to help him.