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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9325, 30 March 1889, Page 3 (Supplement)

Is marriage a failure? To an old man living in a small village near Malton it would appear to b6 a very miserable one indeed. He has jusb successfully applied to the guardians for admission to tl*e workhouse because his wife allowed him no peace at home, from which she was always driving" him. He made a request which is probably unique in our poor law annals. He Wished to take his own bed with him into the workhouse. " I have," he said, "a nice feather bed to lay on, and plenty of good blankets, but I have no sheets." On being told that he might bring his own bed if lis liked, the old man went away delighted with the prospect of entering a habitation which the poor generally shun. Digestion is simply the reduction of food into a°liquid form. Before the food passes into the blood-vessels, as it necessarily must before it can nourish the system, it is essential that it should bo emulsified. In this condition it is taken up by the absorbents, and by some mysterious process converted into blood. This transmutation or conversion must bo complete, else follow, in unmistakable train, dyspepsia, indigestion, heartburn, and like ailments. To perfect the process, use Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam AromatioSohnapps. S The shipment of new winter jackets, mantles, dresses, and millinery by the Arawa for McMaster and Shalders, has just arrived in time for the great change in weather. j