CHILDREN AFRAID TO SAY THEY ARE ILL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6963, 1 November 1909, Page 6

CHILDREN AFRAID TO SAY THEY ARE ILL.

The confidence of children, is as easy to lobe as it is difficult to regain. Yet the implicit confidence of the child in tho yyisdom and kindness of its elders is essential to the happy and healthy bringing up of tho children. In sickness this trust most often breaks down. The dread of “nasty medicine” will often lead a child to conceal tho fact that it is not feeling well. Can anything be more pitiful than tho -state of a child afraid to say that it is ill ? This fear of medicine is too often the beginning of serious, because neglected, illness, for it is the natural bent of childhood to prefer the pains it has rather than the nauseous remedies too frequently inflicted. Such oldfashioned remedies as brimstone and treacle, castor oil or Epsom salts may possess tho virtues claimed for them, but it is forgotten that children are as sensitive and susceptible in constitution and habit as their elders. For parents to retain such drugs in the nursery is to impair both the confidence and health of their children. California Syrup of Figs is as superior to them medicinally as it is superior in palatablcness. Large tracts of land in California are devoted to the cultivation of the “mission” or “ blue ” fig for-the California Fig . Syrup Company, and their California Syrup of Figs is known everywhere as “Nature’s Pleasant Laxative.” Children like it, and, being perfect in purity and gently efficient in action, it' not only relieves but tones up the whole system. Of all chemists. Is 3d and Is lid.