A SHORT TALK ON BEING TIRED.

Otago Witness, Issue 2240, 4 February 1897, Page 17

A SHORT TALK ON BEING TIRED.

Are you a working man or a working woman P I don't mean one whc is so by clais'fication or by having been born on the sinister side of certain lines of sooial oleavage, bur solely because yon daily do some sort of real, honest- and useful work. Yes ? I shake your hand. I hope you manage to live by it without overdoing, and that (being still hearty and healthy) you sometimes find yourself tired — dog tired — and huugry as a wolf,: with plenty of good feed for supper. Then . hoy ! for bed and a genuine sleep of eight hours ; to jump from bed in th« morning, both f«et on the floor at once. That's the right kind of "tired" and the heavendescended brand of rest. It is a bleating in itself, and bear others iv its train. .But the variety of fatigue so macy neoplft are all the time writing us about is different. Listen to this one, for instance : "In September 1893," he Bays, " I was overcome by a 7a 7 feeling of languor. I was easily tired, and comparatively slight efforts served lo exhaust me completely. Indeed I never seemed rested ab all, and was a* tired in the morning as when I went to bed. Both mueoles and mind were inert and relaxed. At the same time my appetite seemed to be tired too. I had no relish for food, and after eating felt uneasiness and distress in the stomaoh and pain at the chest. Uly skin w»s sallow also, and thero was t. dull aching at my right aide in the region of tbe liver. ■ " I was constantly belching tip a nour fluid, and my food would sometimes • rtpe*t ' or rise into mV mouth. All I could do to rectify this miserable state of things I did, acting upon the suggestion of friends and others, but f»iled to come across a remedy for my complaint, which meantime obtained a stronger lio'.d upon me. " On acoounb of my inability to cat and digest food my flesh fell off, until I became so thin you might have fancied u)fi as having gone into a decline; and I was so weak I could scarcely get about. I remained in this condition month after month — unfit, of course, for work and virtually a man out of the world's fight. " Tbe doctor who prescribed for me probably understood my caie, bnt he was not able apparently to onre me. And I notioe it is in illness as in business : unless due holds bis own he is bound to be falling behind, whioh made me anxious to obtain relief soon, lesb I might pass beyond the reach of it. And in answer to tb» hope finally oame the help I no«d«d. " In July of last year (189*) I read about Mother Seigel's Byrup in a small pamphlet which was left at our house. The book described my symptoms perfeotly, and stated the disease to be indigestion, with dulness and inactivity of the liver— the latter condition a result of the former. Tho weakness and loss of weight it explained, naturally «nough, to be the effect of want of proper nourishment. Cure the stomach trouble in such cases, said an article io the pamphlet, and the consequences will vanish of themselves. •• On this I prooured a bottle of the Syrup from Mesirs Robinson and Co., chemists, Hunslefc Oarr, and after taking it for a few days I found myself much better. My food now ceased to give me pain, and I gained some s*rength with every meal. No better proof of the power of this medicine could I ask. I continued the use of it ; the bad symptoms abated and no longer tronbled me, and in a few weeks I felt as vigorous and well as ever I did. I could work as before, and experienced _ that kind of fatigue which promotes rest and is relieved by it. I have since enjoyed good health, and you are welcome to publish this shots account of my case. — (Signed) Pebcy Haedakbr, 42 Woodhousa Hill road, Hunslet Carr, Leeds, March 29, 1895." Mr Hardaker is agent for the^ Pearl Assurance Society, and is well and widely known. His own intelligent comments on hi« complaint render any words of ours a.uite needless. In private conversation ho said he looked upon that unnatural "tired" feeling as a warning that none shonld negleot. Ib means not the effect of work, bnt of exhaustion through that subtle disease indigestion. Mother Seigel's Syrup should be taken then, as he would have taken it then bad he heard "of it. We hope Mr Hardaker's timely words, based as they are on an instructive experience, will be heeded by all to whom they apply.

Mr W. W. Collins, ex-M.H.R. for Christchurch, was presented by his friends and sap* porters on Wednesday night with a cheque for £178. A typhoid case at Wanganui is attributed to the patient having been in the habit of eating watercress from the ditch in which the infection is supposed to exist. The Argus gives the following as a record of the business transacted last court day in Cromwell : — One Police Court case ; nice Magistrate's Court cases — fix struck out aa<3t three heard j one interlocutory application granted. Warden's Courts Beven cases— three heard, one struck out, one partially heard and ad* journod, two wholly heard and adjourned ; 103 mining applications — 86 granted or otherwise dealt with, seven withdrawn, 10 adjourned. Friday's sitting, 11 a.m. till 10 p.m. ; Satue» day's sitting, 10 a.m. till 5 p.m.