Worldly ¥Yealtl Physical Health,

Otago Witness, Issue 2719, 25 April 1906, Page 81

Worldly ¥Yealtl Physical Health,

THE WISDOM^ OF THE LATTER.

The OAsa of Mrs. E. OARTER,

(B7 A LOCAL REPORTER.)

The most luxury-loving and self-centred ' of Tivomen, if given wealth beyond tW_ dreams of avarice, would find ■ that, -having ■ provided herself with the lovoliesfc plothea,- k the finest; jewels, the daintiest -food, the most artistic dwelling, with- still, > more , clothes, and jewels-and food, and dwellings, and again more, these -thingjs^ would, soon pall once the novelty had-- worn off ; but, as Mrs. Ellen Carter, of. No. 56 Dowlingstreefc, Dunedin, said to bur reporter, ♦• oue never becomes satiated -with good health." Continuing^Mrs. CAi'ttr said :— •• Tlie better^inyirheaithf -the more- 1- can appreciate all the blesiings' of life." "Perhaps you have Had' ill Tuck, \vhick makes you value good fortune in, that respebt," said the' scribe. "You arc quite right," was the reply, "for I have had a fair share" of sickness in my iime. It is fourteen years since. I, recovered ' from a dreadful illness -'that had lasted-me for many years. I had "not the energy or will to. do my work with' a cheerful spirit, and, worse still, my digestive^ organs were altogether, upset. I had ho appetite for my food, and I went right away from Bleep." " Can you assign any particular cause for the derangement of your digestion." ' "I believe it all happened through the neuralgia troubles that I had been a martyr to so long. I went to several doctors, and they all recommended me to have my teeth drawn, but I am thankful to say I did not follow their advice. Oh ! how frightfully , severe the paius were,; though ! Right along my jaws and even in my eyes I felt them — in the left one particulaily. The pains were so intense at times tnat they almost deprived me of my senses. Sometimes a benumbed feeling came into the back of my head as thq,ngh it. were cold and empty, and I used to have to keep a shawl wrapped round it to shut out- the air. Iti^ those days I had a splendid liead of hair, '" but when one of my doctors said it was too heavy for me, and that my sufferings were greater in consequence, I had it cut short, but that did not make any difference to my torments. #t. ln the .winter my. neuralgic kgonies used to start at about four o'clock in the afternoon and keep on worrying me ill night, so that at length my restlessness became chronic, and I never knew what it was to have any sleep. In this way I got ihoroughly worn out and took no interest , v life. The heavy, drowsy, and languid j feelings would not go away, and my melan:holy condition was made all the more unjearable by having to f put up with an mcomfortable feeling in the stomach after diking a little food, and a nauseous taste .vas in my mouth every morning. When I troic, after apendinf; another night in tnra.ng from one side io another, I felt that xom sheer weakness my limbs were aching, md to face the day's duties in that state /ras really more than I could bring myself .o do. What distressed me as much aa raything was the palpitation of my heart, J or when that organ is affected it makea >ne fear that the worst may happen at any noment." c " Such a gymptom would naturally make /on anxious." " Oh ! I used to fancy all sorts of horrible .hings, and I was so intensely nervous that L was almost afraid of my own shadow; vhile if anything happened suddenly it set ny nerves all of a shake. Everything beja.me a trouble. If I went to dreßS the ;hildren to take them out it seemed a ter•ible task, for I really had not the heart to jxert myself in the least. Nasty pains af:ected me in the cheat, and the pains caused ihrough wind in the stom: eh were awful. 3ften I vomited my food soon after taking it, and that weakened me all the more.# I had a terrible backache morning, noon, and tight.* lt> wa*> so bad that I could pot stand

up straight, and when my giddy fits cams on J^wiis -perfectly, helpless. • „ Agonies^of an excruciating nature laid between my slioiili ders and also on top of them. They ; weva^ just like. rheumatic pains, for they: "even af- j fected me under my knees, and made them quite stiff and swollen. 1 JOne' doctor said I. djd have rheumatism, and that I was to restas much" as" possible} -but *. with -the in- ', cessant tortures that I was enduring, therji was no peace" or "rest _ on' earth for -ino : lused to lie "about feeling absolutely helpless, and. would have, fieen.s better, .deid .thin-, living in such miserjjp ;Sljr lipdy was terribly emaciated, and >tHe lines of sorrow 'aud suffering- were deeply^furrowed'in my face. Indeed; i got so old*l6oking*4nd»fejßble.th'at- . V- thoughts! would:- nev& <be;TOre^ran'd;l - was in thaHiopeless state.*:of r mind/;when*a v friend "said one 'day that she thought 'Cle-' ments Tonic .qo.uld do me good if nothing, else was'ablo to. ' Now, I tiad jtost alt "faiths,in medicines by that -time, as all the stuff' IJiad r tukon gave, v me no relief whatever j but'it'sb 'happened, that I had been readiug * about Clements* Tonic a little while befor*my friend said -Try it,' and the two circumstances "combined seemed to .giv« Hie the idea that I ought to." ~\ '.. "And did you?" "If I had nofc I don't believe I would have been here now, for Clements Toni<. .was the only thing that saved me, and you may be surprised to hear that I had only, taken two bottles of that medicine when I began to get relief. Two bottles, mind you, gave me more ease than all the medicine I had paid for during those years oi abominable suffering; but, of course,; it took more than that to cure me But was it not, a wonder that I was ever cured after what I had gone through? People were astounded, and when I had been taking Clements Tonic a few weeks they said how fresh knd well I looked. It was the greatest'surprise_ I ever got. to find that'l was getting hungry—me, who had not known what a healthy . appetite was for years L And after .while my digestion^got better, but on'y by .de- . girees; formyinternal'organs^were'm such a badstate. In fact, what. with. my breath being offensive, and my tongue 'so furred, and my taste so I thought m,? stomach was in some way diseased ; but, » further .use. of. Clements Tonic ;aIF that, besides acting so well upon my nerves that \ lost the tortures of nejuralgin andj forgot what it was to fear anything. 4 Oh > how happy I became to find myself resenea from misery at last, for even the backache^ and chest pains, and flatulence were cured by Clements Tonic, and the best of it- all was that I got stronger and stronger a« each bottle was emptied. Before I had done with Clements Tonic such trouble; as vomiting food aud sleeplessness wer« brought to an end, and even the pains ana stiffness in my knees were gone. I believe that ClEment3-lonic jra* ten J-e»r* «v to my life, and I shall always be thankful for \ts wonderful euro." - "Statements like these may benefit others." " Surely they ought, and you may publish them in any way you please."

Aren'-t Tbngariro, Ruapehu; and- I^gau- : ruhoe active ? ' Didn't we think Taravvera dead ; but didn't he, in Kis anger, wake up and ■ burst out twenty years ago ? And what' an- awakening ! Tauranga, 75 miles away, was in- complete darkness at midday; the mountain rent itself in twain, - and formed a huge chasm 12 miles long - and a quarter of a mile broad ; the beautiful White and -Pink Terraces were* destroyed, and, according to Marshall's geography,, their place, was taken by a vast crater 500 feet beneath their site'; a magnificent- bush was destroyed ; and, worst of all, over a hundred lives were necessary to appease his wrath. To remind us what may again happen, the great geyser at Waimangu came into being a snort time ago, but he now sulks, and no amount of soap seems to arouse his ire. . Following up the line, we pass out into the Bay of -Plenty, and see the perpetually smoking White Island. The volcanic line can be traced up to the East Indies, the home of volcanoes and earthquake action, for here are found more volcanoes than in all ~the rest of the world put together. Everyone has. just read of the earthquakes in Formosa/ and . itjs only a- year or sp ago, that thousands •of" lives were r lost' iri Japan." Tha Kurile. ..Islands, Kamchatka. _ and, the Aleutian, Islands- are all of volcaiiic origin;' and.', : right , through, the two -Americas, the Pacific coast shows evidences- of terrific contortions. ,• ' . ,-, - '' , s I And one of- these ik jChili.t forty, years ago, more- or less? caused an . earthquake 1 "wave which- was felt in- New <■. Zealand, so that- Mr Hoben's- remark" that" j Auckland has nothing to. fear from atwave crossing the Pacific isn't so lightly ;to be regarded- as many , think. _• Shortly after that upheaval took place, a wave ; struck the South Island,. and J was noticed on our Ocean- Beach. Mr Fitzgerald, 'one of our inspectors, was one of those who witnessed- its effects on the coast of Canterbury.^ - # . But I, must cry a, halt ! The Atlantic is- fringed" more or less< in the same manner I have described as obtaining' in the Pacific — by the bye, I have made no note of the volcanic activity of the Hawaiian- Islands ;— and is linked up 'with it by a line of activity stretching across the Mediterranean and through the Himalayas. ' ; Next week I- shall probably return to this subject. , - i