THEY MUST AGREE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2389, 14 December 1899, Page 8

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 ;t is, a molten mass (save for a shell a few mile 3 • thick on the outside), or it may be solid and cool all tho way through from London to Sydney. However it may be, we can DO nothing about it. So let the scientific chaps gj on speculating t otheir hearts' content; the world will keep revolving as usual, and wo shall have to continue picking up our living from its surface. Recently in my reading I have come upon articles in oartain medical journals — uncanny, uninteresting publications, that they are, for non-profes3ional perusal — going to show that, it is not the heart which impels' the blood through the -body, but the chemical action of oxygon inhaled by the lungs.' A prodigious discovery, if it is a discovery .at a 11 .., ■ - , , Yet what odds would it- "make 212 1 .Nqne.whafc'over. _ Fair women would blush by. ,the" help of "the capillaries 'as of old,' and we "should -die rags around cut fingers just thd same. It follows, my brethren, tha.t some things miCy 1)0 mysteries to the «nd of the chapter^ arid no harm done," and others may differ without disturbing the serenity of dur passing days— a most soothing reflection. But the advantage -or otherwise of a, person's food agreeing or disagreeing with' him in not a more matter of opinion. There is only ono way toj.ook at that. As a wholo, food must agree with us, and wewith it, or we are ruined. A lady of Sheffield, Mrs S. A. Smith, suffered a long, wearisome, and costly illnesp, eimoly because her food failed to agree with her. For three years she was weak ami wretched on account of , it. Tho light and pleasure"" went out of her life. She needed to eat, of course, ju*t as she needed to breathe ; yet, after every meal — commonly of light things taken in small quantities, and slowly — she was im■/.ictiiately seized' with pains in tho stomach, j Iho chest, and the left side. Was not this ! a hard recompense for doing what nature compelled her to do — to eat? Any act which causes pain is r 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 out of the bank than you denjosit and presently the bank returns your cheaues marked "No funds." To be sure. Nobody can make twice, two r equal five. ' " '' I got to be so feeble I could 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'fc know, when one day, my aunt, ' Mrs William Andrew, of Willonghton, urged me to tako Mother Seigel's Syrup.- After having done so for a short time, the complaint — indigestion — was better, and booh it wholly, disappeared. lam now entirely cured, and strong and hearty as I was before my illness cama upon me. You may rest assured that, after so forlunate an experience with Mother SeiKel's Syrup, I recommended .it to all my friends, and in sending you this short statement it is my wish that you should print it for the good of others if "you -jo desire." — ■ (Signed) S. A. Smith, 44, Ditchingham Road, Sheffield, June 3, 1398. I "In April of this year (1898)," says another, "my health began to fail. I felt 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 disagheed 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 July, I read about Mother Seigel's Syrup, and 'gob a bottle of Mr Hattersley, chemist, West India Dock Road, and in a fow days felfc better. After taking a second bottle I waa cured, and have been well ever since." — (Signed) (Miss) Minnie Wyatt, 46 West India Dock Road, London. E., October 14, 1898. Ye 3, it is true, health and life depend on a perfect agreement between "ourselves and oun 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 tho frequent and timely \;so of Mother Seigel'a Syrup. . ■ _ ; It is officially reported that at least 60 per* cent, of the cattle of North Queensland euc* cumbed to the tick plague. Growers of Turnips for winter feed should not fail to grow "Standard" Swede. It ia the most nutritious and hardiest of Swedes', (md keeps sound into spring, Price la sex Ib..— NiMMO 4£D BuaM*