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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 61, 20 May 1895, Page 2

ANO I N G Miss Brewer wishes to inform her many friends that, should sufficient inducement oiler, she will re open her Dancing Classes, for the winter months, at an early date. Calisthenics and deportment, if desired, at afternoon class. Intending pupils will oblige by for warding their names as early as possible, o Mr R. W. Hamer ton, Patea. WHAT DREAMS MAY COME. In a recent lecture at the Royal Institution, Dr B. W. Richardson says that the sleep of health is dreamless. “ Dreams,” says Shakespeare, “ are children of an idle brain.” If both the doctor and the poet are right it follows that idle brains are unhealthy brains. ■ No doubt there might be truth in the inference, but that is not

quite the point. Are all dreams signs ot a diseased condition ? To this the doctor says “ No.” He divides dreams into two classes; those started by noises or other causes outside the sleeper, and those produced by pain, fever, or indigestion. Here we inject a fact. We receive multitudes of letters containing this affir mation, almost in identical words : T was wor<e Ured in the morning than when I went to led .” To this the doctor has an answer. He says, “ When we feel wearied in the morning very likely it remits from dreams that we have forgotten.'’ Quite so. In other words there is a bodily conditiou which may prevent a person from working by day at his usual calling, but obliges him to labour all night under a mental stimulus of which he knows nothing save hy its resulting exhaustion. These unhappy wretches toil harder, therefore, for no compensation, when they are ill, than they have to do to earn a living when they are well, What an infernal and frightful fact! And this too without taking into account their physical suffering at all times. “Night,” said Coleridge, “ is my hell.” From one of the letters referred to we quote what a woman says of her daughter; •* She has worse tired in the morning than when she tvent to bed.” Poor girl. Those “ forgotten dreams ” had tosiod her about as a ship is tossed in a tempest. Night was her day of labour. The mothers simple tale is this : “In June 1890, my daughter Ann Elizabeth became low, weak, and fretful, and complained of pain in the chest after eating. Next her stomach was so irritable that she vomited all the food she took. _ It was .awful to see her heave and strain. For three weeks nothing passed through her stomach except a little soda water and lirag water Later on. her feet and legs began to swell and puff from dropsy. She was now pale as death and looked as though she bad not a drop of blood in her body, and was always cold. Month after month dragged by and she got weaker every day. She could not walk without support, for she had lost the proper, use of her legs, and her body swayed from side to side as she moved. “A doctor attended her for twelve months, and finally said it was no use giving her any more medicine as it would be no good. In may, 1891, I took her to the Dewsbury Infirmary. She got no better there, and I thougbil was surely going to lose her. She then thirteen years of ,age. “ One day a lady (Mrs Lightoller) called at my shop, and seeing bad my daughe , was, spoke of a medicine called Seigel’s Curative Syrup, and persuaded us to try it. I got a bottle from the Thornhill Lees Co operative Stores, and she began taking it. In two days she found a little relief; and sickness was not so frequent. She kept on with the Syrup and steadily improved. Soon she was strong as ever, and has since been in the best of health and can take any kind of food. After she had taken the Syrup only two weeks the neighbours were surprised at her improved appearance and I told them what had brought it about—that Seigel’s Syrnp had done what the doctors could not do, it saved her life. Yours truly, (Signed) (Mrs) Saiuii Ap SHEARP, 19, Brewery Lane, Thornhill, Lees, near Dewsbury, October 11th, 1892 ’

The inciting cause of all this young girl’s pitiful suffering was indigestion and dyspepsia, dropsy being one of its most dangerous symptoms It attacks both youth and age, its fearful and often fatal results being due to the fact that physicians usually treat the symptoms instead of the disease itself. ‘ A child’s dream s, ” says Dr Eichardson, “ are signs of disturbed health, and should be regarded with anxiety.*’ The same is true of the dreams of older people. They mean poison in the stomach and point to the immediate use of Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup. HOTEL, PATE A. M. KELLY ' Proprietor. M. K. having taken over the above favourite Hotel, which having just received a thorough overhaul, both insido find out, is now equal to the best on the coast, affords splendid accommodation for travellers and visitors. Nothing but the very best brands < f iler, wines and spirit,s kept, Good Sample Rooms on the Premise?. The are under efficient management; country settlors and others can therefore rely on the most careful attention being paid to all animals placed in these stables for long or short periods, Good and Secure Paddocks, WANTED KNOWN thaMrs McOomisky has just opened up a larrro stock of Crockery Glpss and Fancy Goods imported direct from England, and which will be sold at ridiculous prices for one month. A present will be made to each cash purchaser of 5s and upwards during |his and flbriptww week,