BE CAREFUL WITH THAT LAMP!

Otago Witness, Issue 2242, 18 February 1897, Page 8

BE CAREFUL WITH THAT LAMP!

' I sincerely hope thafc Mrs Filtner has abandoned tha custom of keeping an oil lamp barning in her room of nights. She does not say what the necessity wa«, but I trust it no longer exists. If possible t j avoid it, no light should burn in a room wherein people are sleeping. The reasons ought to be plain enough, yet we ■ all need lessons in common caution. This lady bad hers, and was fortunate in coming out of the affair as well as she did. Writing about ib she saya : "It was in tha summer of 1886, not long after the death of my husband. I had been used to keeping an oil lamp burning in my room for convenience! during tbe night. One night I accidentally . overturned the lamp, and a bUze kindled in an ■ instant. Terriliod half out of my wits I sprang from bed, seize,} the burning articles, and rau 1 downstairs with them just in time to prevent further disaster. Happily for me I escaped with slight; burn*, bub not from consequences of another kind. " The fright and shock quibe prostrated me. Do what 1 would after tbe danger was all over I was unable to banish the subject from my thoughts. My nerves seemed completely unhiugeil, and I rapidly grew feeble, excitable, and dsbilitated. My appetite failed, and I had no relish for my ordinary food. Tuero was * < bad taste in my mouth, headache^distress after eating, loss of flesh and ambition, with a disposition to worry and fret over things which when I was well had no influence with me t wnatever. I Roughfc to build up my strength i with beef tra and other nutritious and digestible I forms of diet without success. I " The doctors whom I consulbed said I was ) suffering from nervous debility and weakuess. They gave ma prescriptions, which the chemist I mada up for me ; but they had no effect, and I what I mffered I have no words to tell you. My | health appeared to have beeu all broken up > suddenly, as a railway train goos to pieces in a I collision. Month after month 1 struggled with this strange ailment, but could find no remedy to relieve me. Not until January 1887 did I see my way out of the trouble which followed my adventure of that fearful night. "At that time (January 1887)1 chanced to come upon a little book about Mother Seigel's Syrup as a cure for indigeition and dyspepsia and the complaints attending it. Letters that were printed in that book from others who had been cured by this remedy gave me confidence, and I gottt botblefrom Mr J. H. Brown, patent medicine dealer, 15 High street, Margate. After taking it I felt decidedly better. I could eafc and digest needed food ; my nerves were more under control, and I got better »leep and rest. I will merely add that, feeling sure that; Mother Seigel's Syrup was helping me, I continued to take it, and eventually recovered my j health. For this I thank Mother Seigel's | Syrup ; and if you think so singular an experi- ; ence as mine would be of interest or use to anyI one you have my consent to publish it.— (Signed) (Mrs) C. L. Filmer, Thanet Cottage, Draper's road, Margate, July 24, 1895." No w I invite the reader's attention to a double ; fact : First (as is daily shown in these articles), that indigestion will disorder and disease the nervous system ; and, second, that a violent; shock to the nervous system will produce indigestion of a profound and intractable type. The latter fact is illustrated by the case we are now considering. Tnere is no space here to treat of it at length. Let it suffico for the present that, either way, the remedy must ba addressed to the digestion —not to the nerves* No competent physician treats a so-called "nervous" disease as a nervous disease. He seeks for the location of the evil force, which is commonly the stomach ; corrects that if he can, and leaves the nerves to right themselves, as. they always do. This is what Mother Seigel's Syrup did for Mrs Filmer, and will do for yon in case (which Providence <prbid) you are ever overthrown in like manner.

William Cuudy, one of the oldest settlers at Fealbersfcon, has died from a paralytic ftroke. The secretary of the Danedin Shorthand! Writers' Association has received from Sic Isaac Pitman and Co., Bath, England, tha results of the speed examination held in October last. The five candidates who sad, have been awarded first-class certificates for tin following rates : — Miss M. A. Permit* at 12tf words a minute, Miss W. Whinam and Mr T. Hilliker at 110, Mr C. D. Smith at 100, »n(l UiuA. Dftlziel »t 80.