NOSTALGIA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2539, 12 November 1902, Page 77

NOSTALGIA.

Nostalgia is not an English word. Uai fortunately we have no word in our language which conveys precisely the sam* meaning, hence its use in this place. "Home-sickness" won't do, for that may be taken to signify disgust with one's home and a desire to leave it, whereas nostalgia means the longing or pining for one's original home and a renewal of the sweetf companionship of "the old familiar faces."Nostalgia is very prevalent in all newly.settled countries, but its symptoms are not defined with sufficient clearness to allow, of its classification as a distinct ailment. Like other forms of mental worry, it nob unfrequently produces suffering of a kind with which everybody is more or less familiar. When, two years ago, Mr T. Blamires, of 46 Jeffrey's street, North Shore, Sydney, N.S.W., began to suffer from indigestion, had it been possible for him to have in* haled the delightful sea breezes cf Scar-* borough and feasted his eyes on the fresh greenness of the Yorkshire hills, he would doubtless have escaped much, but not all^ of the misery attending that complaints But Mr Blamires's duty kept him far frontf his native England. "While in Queensland during June, 1900," says Mr Blamires, 1 "my occupation obliged me to constantly travel through the bush districts of ,thafc State. The coarse fare provided at tha bush hotels, combined with the strain and worry inseparable from travelling through those thinly-populated districts, disordered my system and brought on a severe attack 'of indigestion. For several months I suffered greatly from that dreadful malady, some of my symptoms being distention o£ the stomach after eating, gnawing pains aft the chest, palpitation of the heart, and occasional attacks of diarrhoea, alternating; with periods of constipation, resulting geiier-; ally in extreme nervous debility. IS was advised to try the hot water, cure, and did so, but. found iH powerless to benefit me; and tha numerous mixtures prescribed by various doctors and chemists which I took from time to time were attended with no bettec result. At one time I feared that I was suffering from heart disease, and to satisfy myself on that important point I consulted a doctor in Brisbane. After studyine my case with great thoroughness the Brisbane doctor asserted that my heart was nob affected and that my trouble was a severe attack of indigestion. His diagnosis was correct, yet his treatment entirely failed to touch my complaint. "While I was in this deplorable state o£ health several persons advised me to tiy ' Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, stating; that they had -themselves been ■ cured 04 indigestion by it ; but for a long time I gave little heed to what they said, preferring, if possible, to find a remedy in my own \ray. When, however, by repeated failure? Ib became clear that I was unable to do rbisi I determined to give Mother Soigel's C'uraV tive Syrup a trial. With no great nope of any better result than had attended my former efforts, I bought a bottle fr' m a. storekeeper, and after taking a few dose£ of it was agreeably surprised to find thaf it was doinfr me good. Rejoiced at thia unexpected good fortune, I determined tc continue its use, but found by the timp 1 had taken four bottles I was thoroughly cured of my trouble and felt like a new man. In all honesty and with the utmost; confidence I heartily recommend Mother Seifjel's Curative Syrup to all who suffer from indigestion and its kindred complaints. My business occasions me to travel extensively throughout the Australian States, andl since my experience of its pfficacy I should be sorry ever to be unprovided with it." More convincing testimony than thaf of this genial Yorkshireman it would be hard indeed to find.

The Jones's in Wales are even mora numerous than the Smiths in England. Afe the Baptist Union held at Mrrthyr Tydvii there were " 600 delegates. Beside* :n*n? Koberts's and Hughos's. there wor« -7i Jones's, 50 Williams's, 47 Davis"*, 41 l'>aaa'» and 39 Thomas's. A correspondent writes to The Tinr» s . :— > "Japan gives frequent instances nc'.v.i<jayn of her desire to ascertain the tvnth ii. ■>!! thinj??. One of the most interesting of -lu'se is the archaaologic-al expedition \vhicli 'iaS just "left for Central Asia under the niana^c< ment of Count Otani Kozm and M. Watax nabe Tctstishin, both members of the Japan Society. Oount Otaui is also a member of the Royal Geographical Society. The pun poso of the expedition in to search for tin Buddhistic remains in Central Asia, India, and China, and ro trace as far ac is possible the courte of Buddhism from its aourt^ northwards and eastwards to Japan,"