The origin of words is not; only a pleasing, but a moat important and instructive study. The ramifications of certain roots are often very singular and striking. Thus the word cordial, Medicinally used, according to the lexicographers, ■. means " that which cheers, or invigorates, increases strength, raises the spirits, and gives life and cheerfulness Co a person, when weak and depressed." ■;. It springs Irorn the Latin "cor," the heart, because anything that comforts, gladdens, and exhilarates, like Udolpho Wolfe's Schisdarn Aromatic Schnapps, must be grateful to the heart, and a " cordial 10 the soul." s ■ Baldness, graynesa, and other .imperfes* tious of the hair will be regarded aa inexcusable after a trial of Mrs. S. A. Allen's World's Hair Restorer. Sold where. ■ .-..■; - •. ■" •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7974, 14 June 1887, Page 3
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121Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7974, 14 June 1887, Page 3
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