HEADLTH AND HARD MUSCLES.
If John Bimpson were not a blacksmith we might not have occasion to allude to him at tbe very outset of this writing. But he is a blacksmith, and will thus serve an important purpose ; that, too, without having to put on his leather apron to do it. And he will do it by standing in front of his forge for five minutes while we all tate a leok at him. He is a strong and robust man, a* Mr Dicken's Joe Gargery was— as all blacksmiths ought to be. Ought to be, I say. Bnt are they ? a? a matter of fact ? No, they are not— not by maty a length of nail rod. Now it is somehow a common notion that all men who work hard, especially amid rough surroundings and in the fresh al'. ara apt to be vigorous, healthy fellows ; they are supposed to joke at doctors, to have no use for apothecaries, and even to regard undertakers as the necessity of a distant future. Is this view a true view ? Are health and hard mugclea alwsys found together ? Take your 4i ? e *?, "*•*""*'*'• Meanwhile we will hear what Mr Simpson himself says :— . " V P J° th , e 'P""*? of ***•*•.' he writes in a letter dated May sth. 1593, '• I waa strong as most men— perhaps stronger than most. Then I began to suffer from illness. My victuals and I had a falling ont After every meal I hai great pain and fulness of the chest. Then I got into inch a oondition that I had theeo feelings nsarly all the while. I tried to I avoid them by eating nothing bnt light food, bnt the result awe just the asmo. I think a morsel ef bread would have hurt «e almost as much aa a round of beef. Then I began to loee weight, and had all I conld do to keep np with my work. The dootor gar* ma medicine, bnt I got no help from ifc. " I was wondering how this would end srhca I heard of Mother Beige] 's Curative Syrnp. and bought a bottle of it from Mr James Creesley, tbe grocer at Mile Walk* The e*eet in speedy. It appeared to go taaWit to the right spot, and it wasn't enffbaCes* I was ahU to eat witheat any
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXII, Issue 174, 2 August 1898, Page 4
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