EXPLAINED IN FIVE MINUTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2410, 10 May 1900, Page 65

EXPLAINED IN FIVE MINUTES.

You have heard it paid that the Loy is father to the man. Yes. Very good, yev sec •fcWt a prodigious deal may be tied \\i in Irvit idea.

Youth is the sowing timo of hit, and maturity the reaping '.ime. You agree to lliafc. \ T cry good — again. In youth Nature puts forth every effort to build up youv body. Sho absorbs everything; she can lay hands on for tli at purpose. Tbo whole body throbs with life ;>s at no other time. Nature scrapes together building material (I mean food) from every direction. You know what eaters healthy children are. Nature is not thinking of the future. She is thinking only of Kenv — NOW. She id greedy to make you a JfAic, and perfectly careless of vrhat becomes of you after that

Your appetite is gauged by the needs of growth — net hy j-our ability to digest". So it c0m.83 to pass that, in no end of cases., young people c-at tuo much. They eat wrong things, they ca*^ without any thought of regularity. Hence insufficient gastric juice (digesting juice), stomach distension, and fermentation. Bits (■small bits, of course) of undigested food get into the circulation, and through the right side of thp heart into the lungs, where they obstruct the minute bloodvessels at the top of iha lunc=.

Ye hat ihen? Why. they finally become or-* g r anised into tubercle or changed into the" chalky or cheesy deposits so often-found there. The end, soner or later, i& cONStjitPTios. Over-feeding, irregular feeding, or under-feed-ing, all give rii-s to indigestion ; and indigestion is, moio than anything else, the cause of consumption, and of a lot of ailments which we suffer from besides.

For example, a woman says : "In the spring of 1691 I began to suffer from weakness*. T had a bad taste in the mouth, and no desire for food. After eating I had pain at the chest and side?. Nothing would -stay on my stomach, and for many vieaks I never tasted solid food. I had a bad pain at the back of my hepd; my sight was dim, and spocks floated before my eyes. I got very nervous, and lost a deal of sleep, feeling no better for going to bed. Gradually I got weaker and weaker, and so thia I was no tiling but &kin and bone. J got so weak I had to be lifted from the bed to o^ chair by the fire ; and when I felt stronger I went about by the aid of a stick.

" I saw doctor after doctor, and got medi•cins from the dispsnsary; but nothing helped me. After two years' suffering a lady who came to see me said sl~e had been benefited, by Mother Seigel's Syrup, and gave me -a,' bottle. After taking it a week I found myFf!f inrprovine : my appetite being betier,, and food agreeing with me. I had les' sick-" nes-, jiikl folt better oltop,ether. Continuing with tins medicine the pain and nervous feeling soon left me. Since then I have kept in. good » hepllh, taking a dose or two when needed. I have tolcl many persons of what Mother Seigel's Syrup clicl for me, and you can publish this statement as you wish. (Signe-1) (Miv) Hannah Douglas. Main street, Portarlinston. Queen's County, Ireland, Auou&t 20. I£°6."

Nov/, this woman did not have consumption of the lunas as commonly understood ; she had something quite as bad — consumption, of tl>e whole body with attendant prostration of the nervous system. ' Distinct luiic; di=3ase might or might not have followed a little later. The point is this, and I want you not to mi-,3 it. Consumption arises from the in'■.reduction of foreign bodies into the lungs, which come of toner from ih^ stomach than aiiywlicve else, in the way I have* described. Hence dyspepsia causes it.

But dypepsia causes -wasting (as 'in this instance) rheumatism, bronchitis, gout, impure blood, thin blood, skin eruptions, and. a hundred riches and complaints from top to toe. As I hove said timpd beyond cotmtine; J-say aaaii: — life begins, life is nourished, and death begins i>" the stok* ch. Keep it straight as. lor.y as yon can with Mother Seigal's Sj-rup. That vull do for now.

— Venison is only Id per 1b at St. John's, Neu founcllaad. It is the staple food of the people of that colony during the first fivo months of the year, in which they are isolated, except Ly cable, from the rest of the world. Two or throe thousand caribou are killed eteij autumn by the colonials, and the flesh is cured or salted down for winter use. In spite of this wholesale slaughter, the number of deer on the island shows no diminution : they range undisturbed over an area as large as that of Ireland, to which no railway gives access.

— "A very curious thing about the Chinese is their indifference to pain," says a missionary who has laboured in ths Celestial land for many years. "We do a great deal of surgical work in the great city hospital conducted by the united missions at Canton, and it was at first supposed that there would be endless trouble in persuading the natives to take anesthetics ; but the doctors found, to their surprise, that anassthetics were rarely needed, and thofc their patients endured the mo=t serious operations without flinching the fraction of an inch. The average Chinaman, will assume the required position and hold it like a statue. Whether this is due to nerve bluntness or stoicism, or a combination oi both. I have never been able to determine, but the foot remains that the Canlou Hospital use:, less ehloroiorm or ether than any large institution of the kind ou earth."