SHE NATURALLY THOUGHT SO.

Otago Witness, Issue 2471, 24 July 1901, Page 75

SHE NATURALLY THOUGHT SO.

Mrs Hicken says she supposes the doctor knew what was the matter with Lizzie. Maybe he did, and maybe he didn't. Now, let me have your ear for a quarter of a minute, ac though you were a telephone, while I talk a suggestive truth into it. Read any big medical book, intelligently and honestly written, and you will be astonished to find what a lot of diseases therein described are said to be "OF unknown ORIGIN." Therefore, the doctor might not have understood what ailed Lizzie Hicken, and no blame to him. As it was, he worked, away at the symptoms (the outside presentments, you know) and trusted to luck for results. And he might have struck it right, but he did not, unfortunately : and it came to pass what Mrs Hicken is going to tell us» about. It was in 1896 that the young girl begaii to suffer terribly with pains which, as she put it, " ran right through " her, particularly across the stomach and under the shoulder blades. A continuance of this so piostrated her that she would sometimes be laid up for a month or s>ix weeks. We fancied it was rheumatism, yet it did not act quite like that complaint. " She was also greatly troubled with a nasty cough that completely took the power out of her. I called upon the doctor with my daughter, and told him how she had been handled ; and I suppose he knew what was the matter with her, but, at all events, I am certain his medicines did her no good. " Then I bought her all sorts of cough medicines, but they had no more effect than if she had used so much water. " By this time the poor girl could neithei eat nor sleep, and you may be sure we were in great worrimenfc and perplexity to know what to do. '" However, I saw one of the Mother Seigel's Syrup advertisements, and sent to the chemist for a bottle, before she finished it I could see sbf'vvab better. So we kept on giving her this remedy until the was completely cured. " I have used the Syrup myself for indigestion, and it cured, after I had worn out a deal of other medicines to no purpose. " I want to say, so strongly that there can be no doubt of my meaning, that the entire credit for Lizzie" s recovery is clue to Mother Seigel's Syrup, and aUo for my own. "We both swear by it, and are seldom without a bottle in the house. I commend it to everybody." — Mrs J. Hicken. Graham street, Auburn, N.S.W., November 27, 1599I —

— England spends £580,000 a year on blacking. — The French census shoiu that the popu btion of France has decvta-ecl by 12,683 m five years.

-— Some examples of the great variety *f occupations engaged in by women in the XJnited States are given by an American Jbontemporary. In Georgia and Teias wofcnen serve as mail carriers; in West Virginia a woman drives a locomotive engine. In the neighbourhood of New York a woman contracts for the removal of wrecks, owns her own plant, and supports her childreen bn the proc«eds; and a Virginian lady earns tier living a* a fcraiiMr of saddle horses.

— The Spalding County Court jud^e wa^ engaged in hearing an action brought by the drainage trustees to recover twopence drainage taxes from a farmer named William Drury. Solicitors were engaged on both sides, half a dozeir witnesses weie called, and judgment was given for the farmer. Two years ago a precisely similar action for the same amount was famght out between the par lie.*, and then the drainage tiuaUag woa.