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Otago Witness, Issue 3430, 9 December 1919, Page 23

IF FOOD DISAGREES DRINK HOT WATER. "When food lies like lead in the stomach, and you have that uncomfortable, distended feeling, it is because of insufficient blood supply to the stomach, combined with acid and- food fermentation. In such cases try the plan now followed in many hospitals and advised'by eminent specialists of taking half a teaspoonful of bisurated magnesia in half a glass of water as hot as you can comfortably drink it. The hot water draws the blood to the stomach, and the bisurated magnesia, as any physician or chemist can tell you, instantly -neutralises the acid and stops the food fermentation. Try this simple plan, and you will be astonished at the immediate feeling of relief and comfort that always follows the restoration of the. normal process of digestion. Soldiers at the front and travellers who are frequently obliged to take hasty meals poorly prepared should always take two or throe five-grain tablets -of bisurated magnesia after meals to prevent fermentation and neutralise the acid.—644.

Booking at the local hotels and boarding houses is going on steadily (says Tuesday's Lake Wakatip Mail), and there are indications of the 1919-20 tourist season being one of the busiest ever experienced in Queenstown. There is a keen demand, too, for furnished houses, as well as for furnished rooms. Many city people—presumably people with families —are also seeking an exchange of houses, which solves to a large extent the problem of the expense of a holiday.