THEY MUST AGREE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11603, 11 December 1899, Page 7

THEY MUST AGREE.

As to matters that have no practical outcome it is of no consequence whether we agree or not. The earth may be,' as some say'it is, a molten mass (save for a sheila few miles thick on the outside), or it"may be solid and cool all the way through'from London to feydney Howeyer it may be, we can do nothing about, it. So let the scientific chaps go on speculating t otheir heai-ts' content : the world will keep revolving as usual, and we suall have to continue picking up our livine from its surface. 6

Recently in my reading I have come upon articles -in certain medical journals— uncanny uninteresting publicaiions, that they are, for non-professional perusal—going to show that it is NOT THE BEAM which impels the blood through the body, but the chemical action of oxygen inhaled by the lungs. A prodigious discovery, if it is a discovery at all. Yet what odds would it make? None whatever. Fair women would blush by, the Jfielp ot the capillaries as of old, and we should he rag, around cut fingers just the. same. It follows, my brethren, that some things may be mysteries to the end of the .chapter, and no ; Jiarm done, and others may differ without disturbing the serenity of our passing days— a-most soothing reflection. ' But the advantage or otherwise of a person s food agreeing or disagreeing with him m not a mere matter of opinion. There is only one way to look at that. As a whole food must, agree with us, and we with it or we are ruined. A lady of Sheffield, Mrs S. A. Smith, suffered a long, wearisome,' and costly illness simply because her food failed to agree with her. ior three years she was weak and wretohed ■on account of jt The light and pleasure went out of her hie. fshe needed to eat, of course, 3ust as. she needed to breathe; yet, after every meal—commonly of light things taken in small quantities, and slowly—she was immediately seized with pains in the stomach, the chest, and the left side. Was ndt this a hard recompense for doing what nature compelled her to do—to eat? Any act which causes pain is performed as seldom as possible, and as incompletely. For who wants to suffer?

Eating so little— not half as much as her body called for-Mrs- Smith lost flesh and strength. Necessarily. Draw more money put of the bank than you" deposit and presently the bank returns your cheques marked "No funds." To be sure. Nobody oan make twice two equal five. 1' lug°^•»lug°^•» °be so feeble * co«ld scarcely get about, says the lady. »I was like this for three years from.the spring. of 1893—being worse in the spring than at other seasons What to do more than I had done I didn't, know, when one day, my aunt, Mrs William Andrew of Willoughton, urged me to take Mother Seigel'B Syrup. After having done so for a short time, the complaint-indiges-tion—was better, and soon it wholly disappeared, lam now entirely cured, and strong and hearty as I was before my illness came upon me. You may rest assured that, after so fortunate,an experience with Mother SeiRels Syrup, I recommended it to all my friends,, and in. Bonding yon this short statement it is my wish that you should print rt for the good of others if you so desire."— 'Wl S- T A- SjMNj. **. Ditchingham Road, Sheffield, June 3, 1898. >

« i Pnl °V B year (1898>>" says another, my_ health began to fail. I f e l t drowsy and tired with the last exertion. After every meal I had^oppression at the chest and sides, and a great deal of pain. Whatever food I took disagreed with me, and I grew weak. I am a dressmaker, and when at my work I had so great pain I could hardly bear it I tried all the-usual medicines for indigestion, but got worse and worse. One day in .Tulv I "read about. Mother Seigel's Syn.p, and got a bottle of Mr Hattersley, chemist, West India Dock Rood, and in a . few days felt better. After taking a second bottle I was cured, and Jiavo been well ever since "— (Signed) (Miss) Minnie Wyatt, 46 West India Dock Road, London, E., October 14 1898 Yes, it is true, health and life depend on a perfect agreement between' ourselves and our food. This is not a matter of opinion; it is a vital and living relationship, and nothing does so much to promote the agreement as the frequent and timely use of Mother Seipel's Syrup-