MOTHER, YOUR CHILD NEEDS A LAXATIVE!
IF TONGUE IS COATED, STOMACH SICK, OR THE CHILD IS CROSS, FEVERISH, CONSTIPATED GIVE CALIFORNIA SYRUP OF FIGS. Don't scold your fretful, peevish child. See if the tongue is coated; this is a sure sign that the little stomach, liver, and bowel.- are clogged with bile and imperfectly digested food. When listless, pale, feverish, with tainted breath, a cold, or a ore throat; if the child does not eat, sleep, or act naturallv, or has stomachache, indigestion, or diarrhoea, give a teaspoonful of California Syrup of figs—" CaJitig"—and in a few hours all the waste-matter, bile, and fermeriting fo»d will pass out of the bowels, and jou have a healthy, playful child again. Children love this harmless, fruit laxative, and mothers can rest easy after giving it, because it never fails to make their little " insider " sweet and wholesome.
Keep it handy, mother A little given to day saves a sick child to-morrow, but get the genuine. Ask your chemist for a bottle of "Califig"—California Syrup of Figs —whioh has directions for babies, children of all ages, and for grown-ups plainly on the bottle. Remember, imitations are sometimes substituted, 60 look and see that' your bottle bears the name of the California Fig Syrup Company. Hand back with contempt any other fig syrup. All chemists sell " Caiifig" —California Syrup of Figs— bottles of two sizes la 3d and 2s.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19190715.2.110
Bibliographic details
New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17213, 15 July 1919, Page 9
Word Count
235MOTHER, YOUR CHILD NEEDS A LAXATIVE! New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17213, 15 July 1919, Page 9
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the New Zealand Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence . This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Auckland Libraries and NZME.