TWO SORTS OF FATIGUE

Otago Witness, Issue 2426, 12 September 1900, Page 17

TWO SORTS OF FATIGUE

To be tired is nothing. The bodily powers are more or less exhausted for the time being. No harm ia done. The souices cf strength are not impaired. Food and rest vill set things to rights. We shall .sleep all the better for having come home under the soothing in-* flueiice of fatigue. It is Nature's narcotic, leaving no headaches or bewildered brains behind it. It is the highest license to knock off work; it is an order for to-morrow's supply of vigour. The man who v»as never tired with honest labour has missed one ot life's luxuries.

But the thing this woman talks of is very different. Rest does not relieve it ; the cheerfulness and refreshment of the evening meal cannot be used as an antidote to it ; it is a sort of weakness which neither welcomes the darkness nor ha^ hope in the dawn. " Ever since I was a girl of 12 years of age," she says, " I have been weak and ailing. I had iio strength or energy, and was always low and languid. I had a poor appetite, and the little food I took gave me great pain at the chest and through to my back. " My skin was, yellow, and I had a constant pain at my right side. , From time to time I was taken with soasms, and for ..hours was racked with pain. I lost much sleep, and had often to sit up in bed. I had a gnawing pain and a sinking in the stomach which made me feel as if I had no strength left.

" In this low state I continued for year?, being sometimes better and again worse, biit never free from pain. I got so exteemely weak that I often thought I should never live.

" In Mnrch, 1593, my mother-in-law told me about Mother Seigel's Cuiative Syrup, and how it hid done her good. I got a bottle from Mr F. Hudson, chemist, Eccleshall, and when T had taken it a short time I found great benefit. My food agreed with me and I felt stronger. I kept on taking it, and soon was better than I had been for years.

"Since then I have kept the medicine in the house, and whenever [ foel anything of my old complaint it never fails to ea&e me. I AM NOW IN GOOD HEVLTH. for which I thank Mother Seigel's Syrup. You can make what use you like of this statement. (Signed) Mrs Esther L. Palm, Cotes Heath Bank, Standon, near Crewe, November 1, 1595."

Mr Frank T. Hudson, the chemist whom Mrs Palm names, informs us that he has known her for , some years, and vouches for the accuracy of her statement.

In the absence of definite information we can rlo no more than speculate as to the original cause of this lady having become, at so early an age, a victim of indigestion. The unhappy fact, however, is that there are multitudes of children, usually girls, who suffer in the same way. They are antemic, pale, weak, low-spirited, short of breath, and generally incapable. Every doctor comes across them in his. practice, and plenty of trouble and worry he has in trying — commonly with poor success — to cure them. The fundamental defect with these young people is a congenitally bad digestion. The stomach is dull, weak, cold, and torpid ; hence food does not nourish, and all the symptoms and results of nonnutrition follow, as described by Mrs Palm. The patient may die— helpless to resist— of some acute disease like pneumonia or quick consumption, or linger along for many years, as she did, bearing a load oi illness and pain that is pitiable to see.

In these sad case« Mother Seigel's Syrup has made a record of cures, even in advanced life, which stamp it as a genuine remedy. It goes to the root of the trouble, the incompetent stomach and liver, stimulates them to normal action, and thus ensures a radical recovery. Despite their dismal past many a woman having used the Syrup, says with Mrs Palm, "I am now in good health."

A number of appointments of volunteer officers are r.otified in last week's Gazette, chief among which is the promotion of Captain Hawkins, of the Southland Mounted Rifles, to be major. Roger Kerkham has been appointed a lieutenant of the Dunedin City Rifles.

It has been decided to tender the Hon. T. Y. Duncan a complimentary banquet at Oamaru in recognition of the honour conferred upon him, and the district by his appomtment to the portfolio of Minister of Lands. The ceremony will take place probably about the same time as the ceremony of opening the new railway station at Oamaru. Arrangements are now in course of being made for the function, which it is intended to make thoroughly representative.

TUSSICURA (wild cherry pectoral balm), a reliable remedy for Bronchitis, Influenza, stubborn white-- Coughs. A powerful stomach tonic and stimulant.