GIRLS OF THE RIGHT SORT.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1163, 15 June 1894, Page 27

GIRLS OF THE RIGHT SORT.

" My daughter, unless you can work the ship off the coast, she will soon strike the rocks, and wo shall pH bo lost." So said the captafci of a fine merchant vessel to his daughter. Ho was right; it was their only chance. Tho bark Aniua, 700 tons, was bound from Cuxhavon to Rio with a general cargo. Sho had scarcely left port when the captain was disabled by a broken leg. A mutiny followed. Under threat of bad weather tho Anina anchored in a bight of a bay on the dangerous coast of Cornwall. Hero the officers and all of the crew deserted. A furious cyclonic south-west gale arose. Tho anchors dragged, and the girl burned a flare on deck. The lifeboat responded, but was staved against the ship's side by a sea. All the boat's crew were lost except tho coxswain, who gained the deck. He was not a sailor, yet with him alono under her orders, tho girl, who was a sailor, cut both cables, set some headsail, and got out into the open. It was touch and go, but true grit won. Three weeks longer the girl com-, manded beforo help came. Yet it did come finally, and so did the wedding of the handsome young coxswain and the captain's beautiful and heroic daughter. And yet there are some fools left who say we must look to men chiefly for courage and intelligence. Stuff and nonsense ! Any woman will scream when she sees a mouse (that's mere nerves), and ten minutes later sho will meet disaster or death with a quiet smile. Then, too, women have a genius for throwing in a suggestion exactly when it is wanted. A man writes this way:—" I came home dejected," so he goes on, "anddidn't know what to do, but my daughter said " But wait a minute. Beforo wo hear what his daughter said, let's have his story from the start, shipshape and Bristol fashion. He says: "In docember, 1890, I was suddenly taken ono day with an excruciating pain in tho pit of the stomach and in tho right side. For over twelve hours I could neither sit nor lie down. The medical man who examined me gave me some medicine, but on the second day jaundice sot in, and from that time I suffered from a similar attack about once every three weeks. Every remedy Was tried without avail; nothing did the slightest good. The kidney secretion was something frightful, being a mass of matter, blood and bile. ° This continued five months, and I grew weaker and thinner every day. My friends thought nothing could save me. Many urged me to have further advice, as at this. time the secretions were much wose, and the motions resembled white clay. Another attack came on, and as I was daily getting worse, I said, ' I will see the doctor first, and if he can do me no good, I will seek further medical aid/ " Accordingly I went to see him, but he was from home, and would not return until late at night. I came home dejected and did not know -what to do, but my daughter said; 'Why don't yon try Mother Saigel's Curative Syrup ? We hear it has cured so many. If it does you no good, it will do you no harm.' ' Well,' I said to her, ■ I will try a bottle." " I then began to take it, and oh! how thankful I afterwards was, for on the third day I could see such a change. The secretion, instead of being nothing but corruption, became clear, and the motions a healthy colour. From that time I daily gained health and strength, and in a short time I was as well as ever in my life, and have had no return of the disease. " I can, therefore, speak of this medicine in the highest terms, for, under God's blessing, it cured me when nothing else had the slightest effect." Tho above communication is from a business man of high character in the county of Brecon. For especial reasons ho desires his name to be withheld for the present, but we freely pledge our own reputation for the truth of his statement. Tho date is February 12,1892. The attacks which would probably have soon ended his life were of severe kidney and liver congestion, growing out of profound indigestion and dyspepsia, His system was flooded with bile acid poisons, and he may thank heaven for having a daughter who made the right suggestion at a critical moment. In courage' and good sense she is like the other noblo girl who saved her father's ship from wreck while ho lay helpless in his cabin. Success attend them in their own life voyages, say we.