THREE FORTUNATE WOMEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9503, 5 May 1894, Page 3

THREE FORTUNATE WOMEN.

We will introduce you to the oldest one first. . Her name is Mrs. Jessie Russell, and she lives near the city of New York, in America. She was born in London in 1787, and is therefore 105 years old. She remembers many incidents of her childhood, and still has traces of former beauty. Her eyes are bright, and become animated when she talks. She retains her mental faculties completely, She descends two flights of stairs to every meal, and returns without assistance. Up to three years ago she was a regular attendant at the Greenwood Baptist Church. Her sight is excellent, and she reads the newspapers every day, and takes great interest in the news from England. She has never had any severe illness in her life, and her appetite and digestion are almost as good as they were fifty years ago. The second woman says : — 11 Ever since I was a child I have suffered from illness. Thirteen years ago a tired, languid, and heavy feeling came over me. The whites of my eyes became tinged with yellow, my skin was sallow, and my hands ana feet were cold and clammy. My mouth tasted badly, especially in the morning; and I was often sick, vomiting a sour, frothy fluid. I had a pain in the chest and sides, heartburn, and flatulency. For four years I suffered like this, and I shall glad to recommend the medicine that finally cured me."—(Signed) (Mrs.) Frances Emily Smith, 49a, Woodhousestreet, Leeds, January 25th, 1592. The third woman says.— have been delicate all my life. For the past six years I have always felt tired, languid, and weak. .1 had a poor appetite, a bad taste in the mouth, and pain after every morsel I ate. I was dizzy, and often felt as if I was going to fall. I always felt sick, and would retch and strain, but could bring nothing up. There was a dull pain at the right side, and a dreadful pain between the shoulders. I never knew what it was to be well. After being on my feet for a time my legs would swell very much. No doctor was able to help me, nor any medicine; that is, up to the time I took the one which gave me my health back. I never felt so well in my life as I do now." — (Signed) (Mrs.) Sarah Sharmax, Glinton, near Market Deeping, February 19th, 1892.

Why do we put these three women in a group—the one venerable woman in America and the two others here in England ? They are perfect strangers to one another, and always will be. We do it to show how long and happily a woman may live if she only happens to escape the malady that everywhere threatens her sex; and also to show that those who have been burdened and cursed with it may be cured and once more taste the joys of health. Mrs. Smith concludes her letter in these words " After taking three bottles of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup all pain and sickness left me, and I knew no more of the ailment that had troubled me so longindigestion " and dyspepsia. I know others who have been, benefited by the Syrup. All sufferers should use it." Mrs. Sharman adds that after she had doctored and doctored and taken everything, almost without getting any good from it, Mr. Webster, a grocer of Glinton, said, "Why don't you use Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup?" She acted on his suggestion, and health wasn|t long in coming. "I cannot speak too highly of Seigel's Syrup," she says.. We should agree with her in that opinion, for a remedy that will in a few weeks put an end to a case of chronic indigestion and dyspepsia is certainly worth a good word or two. Now, here you have these three Englishwomen—one so fortunate as to have lived more than a century without an illness : the others {still more fortunate) have known the sadness of suffering and the pleasure of re- i covery. | Oh, my : , oh, my! how hard it is to tell j who is beat off in this queer world.