A DEFERRED HONEYMOON.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16610, 5 February 1916, Page 11

A DEFERRED HONEYMOON.

It was whilst digging in Mr Brinsmaad's garden that poor Phillips [Brinsmead is tho father of Phillips's best girl) met with the disaster which compelled him to defer marriage nem. di 6. Phillips, who had been notoriously an athlete: good on the towpath as a sprinter, and on the football field as a most reliable forward, had become, merely by attempting to turn a sod without proper leverage, a most pronounced invalid whom doctors could not cure, unless, may be, by an operation! For three years he tried trusses; each was effective for a week or so, but all and every _ one of them required tho continuous addition of pads, till disfigurement and weight compelled their rejection. Phillips began at last to feel that an operation was inevitable, particularly as each suooeeding month brought an increase of pain; and it was with doubtful steps that, as a last experiment, he followed the advice of a friend and proceeded to interview tho specialist, Mr A. W. Martin. That visit was made on the occasion of Mr Martin's last return to Dunedin, after his ninth trip through New Zealand and Australia, and Mr Martin is now happy to report that, having completed his tenth visit to all tho principal cities of Australia, one of his first visitors was _Mr Phillips, full of eagerness to thank him for his skilful treatment. "Mr Martin," said Mr Phillips, " I have to thauk you for a new lease of life, and for a chance of future happiness and usefulness. This young lady is my wife, and she is as anxious to express her gratitude as I am, for she avers she would not fully enjoy our honeymoon trip to tho north if she omitted to express to you her thankfulnefs." This was no new experience for Mr Martin. He says: "I scarccly ever visit a district where I have been before without receiving a warm from some former patients," and it is this fact which compels me to keep on trying to induce sufferers to submit themselves to the only treatment which is absolutelv scientific and at the same time pronouncedly successful." Sufferers from rupture are urged, in their own interest, to accept it as a fact that Mr Phillips's experience at tho hands of Mr Martin is merely typical. Hundreds of others have equal cause to _be thankful, and there is not a reader of this, be he (or she) a sufferer, who need despair of cure provided he avails himself of Mr Martin's skilful treatment. All consultations free. Booklet on rupture and its treatment posted free to sufferers. Hours: 10 a.m. to 12, 2 p.m. to 5; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Extra hours: Friday evening,_ 7 to 8. Address: Samson's Building, Dowling street, Dunedin. —3/2/16.