WASTING AWAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13353, 6 December 1906, Page 7

WASTING AWAY.

MISS ROHLOFF, TIMARU TOO WEAK TO WALK. SLIPPING INTO A DECLINE. HEALTH PERFECT TO-DAY. DR WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS.

" When I entered my teens, it would have been hard to find a stronger girl anywhere," said Miss Stella Rohlotf, Lo Cren's Terrace, Le Cren-street, Timaru. " Soon after I turned fifteen, I started to fade away, and the only tiling that saved mc from the grave was Dr. "Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. I took them for six months, and it is just wonderful the way they built me up. When I started them I was a skeleton —but I weighed list 41b when I knocked them off. " .My blood must have been over-taxed, for 1 grew pale and weak," added Miss Rohloff. " 1 had no life, and just weut about the house ill a half-dazed way. Mother never dreamed I was so bad. She used to get annoyed, and tell me that I gave way too much. ] wouldn't let her know that there were times when I had hardly the strength to put one foot before the other. I .would not give in till one day, when I was helping her, 1 staggered to the sofa .and fell back in a dead faint. That was a terrible shock to them all. The doctor was sent for and he said I fainted from sheer weakness and want of blood.

" ' She will need every care, Mrs. I'ohlofF were his last words to mother. 'The least, chill might end in her death. She has hardly enough blood in her body to keep her alive as it is.'

"I jlidn't look as if I had any blood, for I was the colour of Death," Miss Eohloff went oil. "My lips and gums were almost purple. Mv cheeks fell in,' and my eyes sank away back in my head. ] was a ghastly sight. Every few weeks great dark circles cam© under my eyes, showing what a terrible state my health was in. The doctor sent me medicine and mother did her best to build mo up with good food and no end of carebut, in spite of everything, I kept going down, down, down. " Soon I was nothing but an invalid. I had not the. energy to do a hand's turn. In fact, I had not the strength. My back was never done aching, and my head felt as if it would burst. When these headaches came on I could not lie still for two minutes. I grew restless, and could not get rid of the feeling that something dreadful was going to happen. Then suddenly my head started to swim, and nil the blood in my body rushed to my face. The next minute I was stretched on the floor in a dead faint, as lifeless as a corpse. " These fainting fits came oftener every nionth. Sometimes I had as many as three in a week. When I came round each time 1 was all of a shake. My hands were stonecold, and I was so weak that I could hardly move. A terrible weight seemed to be lying at ray heart, and I could get no relief till I had a good cry. Next day, 1 was fit for nothing. All my nerves were on edge, and I was t.co down-hearted for words. The least thing startled me, and set my heart beating like mad. I always felt that the next fainting fit would carry me off. "After doctoring for years, I gave up all hope of ever getting well," added Miss KohlolF. "As the Sundays went by I used to wonder if I would be" alive that day week. T was so thin and weak that it was plain T could not last more- than a. few months longer. I couldn't boar the thought of dying and leaving all at home behind me — but I knew I would be better dead. "Father was heart-broken, and used to fell everyone how I was dying before his very eyes, and he couldn't find any doctor or medicine that could do me the least good. One day a. man told him that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills had cured a young girl a few doors from him, when she was going straight into Consumption. Father got six boxes before he came homo that night. They only made, mo hungry—-but everyone at home said that I must have patience, and not expect wonders in a few clays. So 1 kept on. It was a month before I felt them doing me goad in other ways. Then 1 had to own up that I was ever so much better. Every day 1 kept gaining in weight arid strength. Sometimes a whole fortnight passed and I didn't faint once. The colour came back to my face, and my cheeks filled out. I had no | more headaches or backaches, and I always wanted to be helping about the house. After I had taken Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for four months 1 had not had a fainting fit for weeks— I have never had one sine*'. Still I kept on taking the pills for six months, tin 1 was just brimful of life and health. I weighed over list then, and' I haven't, had a day's illness since. Mother and father, and all the neighbours, will tell you that I would be in my grave to-day but for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People." Dr. Williams' Pinlk Pills do onlv one thins, but they do it well— actually make new blood. They don't act on the bowels. They don't tinker with mere symptoms. They won't cure any disease that isn't caused by bad blood in the first place. But when Dr. Williams' Pink Pills replace, bad blood with good blood, they strike j straight at the root and cause of all common diseases like headaches, sideaches, and backaches, kidney trouble, liver complaint, biliousness, indigestion, anasmia, neuralgia, sciatica, nervous exhaustion, failing powers, fownnotor ataxia, and the special secret trouble*- that, every woman knows but that none of hem like to talk alxwt, even to their doctors. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by retailers and the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Wellington—3s a box, six boxes lbs 6tl, VKjhl. free.