Explained in five Minutes.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2763, 18 April 1900, Page 4

Explained in five Minutes.

You have heard it said that the boy is father to the man. Yes. Very good. Now see what a prodigious deal may be tied up in that idea. Youth is the sowing time of life and maturity the reaping time. You agree to that. Very good—again. In youth nature puts forth every effort to build up your body, She absorbs everything she can lay hands on for that purpose. The whole bodyjihrobs with life as at no other time. Nature scrapes together building material (I mean food) from every direction. You know what eaters healthy children are. Nature is not thinking of the future. She is thinking only of now —NOW. She is greedy to make you a man , and perfectly careless of what becomes of you after that. Your appetite is gauged by the needs of growth—not by your ability to digest. So it comes to pass that, in no end of cases, young people eat too much. They eat wrong things, they eat without any thought of regularity. Hence insufficient gastric j uice (digesting j uice), stomach distension, and fermentation. Bits (small bits, of course) of undigested food get into the circulation, and through the right side of the heart into the lungs, where they obstruct the minute blood vessels at the top of the lungs. What then ? Why, they finally become organised into tubercle or changed into the chalky or cheesy deposits so often found there. The end, sooner or later, is consumption. Over feeding, irregular feeding, or under feeding, all give rise to indigestion; and indigestion Is, more than anything else, the cause of consumption, and of a lot of ailments which we suffer from besides.

For example, a woman says: “In the spring of 1891 I began to suffer from weakness. I had a bad taste in my mouth, and no desire for food. After eating I had a pain at the cheat and Bides. Nothing would stay on my stomach, and for many weaka I never tasted solid food. I had a bad pain at the back of my head; my sight was dim, and specks floated before my eyes. I got very nervous and lost a deal of sleep, feeling no better for going to bed. Gradually 1 got weaker and weaker, and so thin I was nothing but skin and bone. I got so weak I had to be liftedifrom the bed to a chair by the fire; and when I felt stronger I went about by the aid of a stick.

"I saw doctor after doctor and got medicine from the dispensary, but nothing helped me. After two years* suffering a lady who came to see me said she had been benefited by Mother Beigel's Syrup, and gave me a bottle. After taking it a week I found myself improving’; my appetite being better, and food agreeing with me. I had less sickness ami felt better altogether. Continuing with this medicine the pain and nervous feeling soon left me. Since then I have kept in good health, taking a dose or two when needed. I have told many persons what Mother Beigel’s Syrup did for me, and you can publish this statement as you wish. (Signed) (Mrs) Hannah Douglas, Main Street, Portarlington, Queen’s Co,, Ireland, August, 20th, 1896.” Now, this woman did not have consumption of the lungs as commonly understood; she had something quite as bad consumption of the whole body with attendant prostration of the nervous system- Distinct lung disease might or might not have followed a little later. The point is this, and I want you not to miss it. Consumption arises from the introduction of foreign bodies into the lungs, which come oftener from the Btomach than anywhere else, in the way

I; have describe ; ; M : euce dyspepsia causes it. '■' •,«.' t 1 . ' But dyspepsia c nises wasting (Jas in gout, impure blofc-.t' thin bioo.ijjekiieruptions, and a hundred aches anjlcomplaints from top to toe. As I have said times beyond counting I say again." hfe begins, life is nourished; and jdeatlr begins in the stomach, Keep it straight as long as you can with Mother yeigel’s Syrup. That will do for now. i