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New Zealand Times, Volume LXX, Issue 3785, 6 July 1899, Page 7

THE GREATEST HAPPINESS. ; •Upon no subject is there more diverger.c of opinion among mankind than up.ri wha constitutes the "greatest happiness.’ Wealth, honour, fame, beauty, goodness, power, all these and other attributes contest in men’s hearts and minds for‘ the coveted position. Yet take any one of them,, or all of them, and eliminate from its or their possession the health which, is necessary to its or their enjoyment, and what is the gift hut Dead Sea Fruit; Whence the calmer judgment of the more matured unhesitatingly decides that the greatest happiness is the possession of health, but those who cannot do so are but few and quite the exception. As a rule, the human being is the author of his own health state, and, mark you, if he has trifled with it, a heavy retribution awaits him for his breach of truth. For instance, you suffer from indigestion or liver attacks; you do, and you know it, because the symptoms are unmistakable. Yet you do nothing consistently to remedy the state of things. Beware! you are imperilling your life; shortening your days. While for merely 2s 6d you can procure at any chemist's Nurse Woodward’s Health Syrup, jwhich is a certain cure for these troubles. 655

It happened every night when father fell asleep. His little kid awoke to cough and sneeze and weep. Then father swore oiit loud, and wished his kid w r as dead, And tore his new pyjamas, jumping out of bed; He cursed the cold linoleum stuck to his feet like glue. As in his arms the child was 'Howling all . he, knew, . , But mother found a charm to make-.their ! ■ rest secure, • - l'i The kid now thrives and sleeps on Woods's Peppermint Cure. 227