HOW THE BOTTLE WAS SMASHED

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1511, 14 February 1901, Page 15

HOW THE BOTTLE WAS SMASHED

A bad place to carry a bottle, and almost sure to end in disaster. And so it proved- in the case of Mrs Jones’s little girl. Yon see, her mother, had/sent the child. to the shop of Mr Ayres, the chemise, for a bottle or medicine, and when he had given i t to her she put it inside of her closed umbrella to carry home.On her way back it began to rain, ana the child thoughtlessly raised the umbrella? Half the contents of the bottle was saved, and the mother was obliged to make the best of it. ' t ' ' Writing under date 'of Nov. 27th, 1899, the lady says : -—“About four years ago come Christmas I became bad with what I can only dewscrihe as a nasty, loWj weak feeling. I was so weak that when I wanted to move from one plane to another in tlie room I had to go liamd over and around the tables and chairs. “This was sq aggravating, and I really was so feeble, that I often felt like throwing myself down, only I knew I couldn’t get up again.,, At times I would have such a dreadful pain across my chest that I was afraid I should sinother; and the sickening, coppery taste in my mouth of mornings was hard to bear. “For the life of me I could not say what was the matter or what was the cause of all this. • I had been to the lodge doctor regularly for about six months, and he told me T was a/puzzle' to him, and that he didn’t know what ailed me. , Jg, “All he could say was if X did not give up lifting water well, cutting wood, milkimfe): ancl hard work I had to do, Ijpouldjpqt b© long for this world. ThjflPwas Jgpt a very cheering view to tags?; btyj||pp have no doubt that he was and the state, I was in sejflpcl tdjpbar him out in it.' Bet his mejjgpne Mjprnot effect on me at “Chi'o. dsA jjlppehed to read ' acoufc Mother Seigel’slHyfup. cases lathe book worgip one (Here MrigpTones tellsmow shlptidied up one of Jip* children, and .apjPnbr- to* the chemjgfPs for a- bottle f which iraiipL'ent. with its amity, ]mjs' related). “I continues miflfe was in the bottle, TheppCsent for another, whicn came safe to h|pd. By the time I had finished this onesp # was ever so much better, but I kept right along with the medicine until I got perfectly well ; which I did, and have not had any illness since. ' y “I am seldom wihout a bottle of Mother Seigel’s Syrup in the, house, and itis part of my common tala to tell people what it has done for me, and: wliat 1 am sure it- will de for anybody who suffers from the complaints we are all liable to have-”—Mrs Tabitha Jane Jones, Graham street, Auburn, N.S.W.

Referring to the little girl’s bad luck on her first visit to the chemist, Mrs Jones adds that it is a comfort to refleet that a half a bottle of Mother Seigel’s Syrup is more good than a full one of anything else.