COMFORT FOR THE OLD FOLKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10908, 12 November 1898, Page 3

COMFORT FOR THE OLD FOLKS.

Suppose the wheels of time could suddenly bo reversed, and we could, in an instant, go back to the year 1811. Why, man, you wouldn't recognise England. You wouldn't know how to speak, what to do, or how to understand the tilings around you. You would be as completely lost as though you were whisked away and dropped 011 the planet Jupiter. You would find no railways in England, no telegraphs, no running water in the City houses, and mighty few of the houses themselves that are standing now. Between 1814 and 189+ the difference is as great as between 1814 and 1600. Yes; and greater. Yet a lady who was born in 1314 writes us tho following letter. She says:—"ln the early part of 1884 1 commenced to feel weak and ailing. My appetite u:u bad, and after meals .1 had an aching pain in the chest, and a most uncomfortable feeling in the slomacn. My mouth tasted badly, and I spat up a sour, sickening fluid. 1 was much troubled with wind, belching it up frequently. It wan about all I could do to get around hero and there in the house. " A woman that I knew told mo of a medicine that she said had done her a great deal of good; she called it Mother Scigel's Curative Syrup. She said it would no doubt do as much for me. On hearing this. I sent and got a bottle from Mr. F. Daniell's, grocer and draper, in Linton, and began to take it. lam glad to say that in a very short time I felt much better. The bad symptoms I have spoken of went away, and soon I was as strong and hearty as 1 had been before tho trouble came on me.

" I am 80 years of age, and can do almost any kind of work easily and with comfort. I owe it to Mother Scigel's Syrup, and by taking an occasional doso when I fuel ailing, it has kept me in good health for ten years. I recommend the Syrup to all my friends, and if by printing my letter in the papers you think other persons—especially those who are advanced in life—may coino to hear of the Syrup and use it, 1 shall be very pleased to have you do so.—(Signed) Mrs. Ann Woollett, Wheeler's Lane. Linton, near Maidstonj, January 16, 1894." We do think Mrs. Woollett's letter will do good, and so you find it printed here. Now, there are a great many old people in this country, some of them perhaps even older than she. And they need a gentle and good medicine like Mother Seigel's Syrup. Old age is a time when life is apt to seem a heavy thing to bear, particularly if there is more or less pain and illness. And this is sure to be the case. The stomach gives out. Old people can't digest as they once did. Their food sours and ferments in tlia stomach, and makes all those bad feelings that Mrs. Woollett herself had. And when they cannot eat and digest their food, of course they get weak and feeble, and have to lie in bed or sit in tho corner, unable to take the air and go about for necessary exercise. Then they get to thinking they are in the way,' and grow down-hearted and low-spirited. Besides, thoy are likely to be troubled with rheumatism, which is a complaint peculiarly common to old people, and comes from a bad digestion. Now, for curing and mitigating the ailments of old people, there is nothing in the world so good as Mother Seigel's Syrup. It doesn't sicken them, and tear them all to pieces, as some harsh medicines do. It operates gently and thoroughly; it doesn't make them worse before it makes them better. For indigestion, dyspepsia, rheumatism, and all the aches, pains, and discomforts of age, it is just right. Mother Seigel, who discovered it, knew what her elderly friends needed— better. Well, we can't go back to 1314, and we don't want to. In spite of all the growlers and grumblers, we are better off whero we are'. In 1814 Mother Seigel's Syrup was never heard of; it didn't exist. But everybody knows it in 1894. It is one of the great and good things of this end of the century. .