Fashion's Latest Vagary

Southland Times, Issue 15058, 30 September 1901, Page 4

Fashion's Latest Vagary

•THE SUN' ON SOCIBTY SECRETS. The latest vagary of fashion, says the London Sun, is the boom in patent medicines. Good Society, whloh a few years ago would not bave dreamed of using them, now unquestionably does so. 'Pink pill' taking s a fsshiouable orez. stimulated, no doubt, by the fact tbat the product of Dr. Williams gained high approval in a foreign Ruyai family. A smart reporter of the San went boldly to make enquiries. The manager of the Dr. Williams' Medicine Company admitted that there is a Society boom in. medioires. 'Society looks with different eyes up.n advertised remedies to what it did,' said he, 'though we have always bad liberal support from Society aod professional people, but never before to tbe ext»nt we have now.' <Wba< do yoa mean by professional peopl ? said the Sun man. 'You don't mean docfore ?' The Manager smiled. -If yon knew,' he said, 'what dootors hava said in favour of Dr. Wi liams .pit k pilis yoa woald be astonOB'ebed. B->t I refer particularly to mem bars of tbe Churoh and stage. Clergymen have always been oar good friends, -od quite a number of actors and aotreases have Ut ne know what they think of us.' 'I sapp-we it woald b« useless to ask you whether yoa think the boom a good thing or not,' aaid tbe Sac. / 'The reoogaitioo we are obtaining is doe, frank y, to the m<-rit of tbe pills,' replied tbe Manager. Dr. Williams, wbo is a qualified pbyeiciao,with a high Edinburgh University degree, geve tbe ezaet art of prepiration t ■ a ohemUt in his own oity, besaase tbe pills cannot be prepared by ar y ordinary chemist without a knowledge of the peoollar method of compoanc-Dg discovered by Dr. William.. For a long time Dr. Willi-ms' pink pi Is had only a looal reputation, spreading from patient to patient. What has really attracted widespread attention tn tbem, however, was the oase of a man in a leading benefit sooiety the Royal Templars— who had been stricken with a 'incurabl-' dis-a«e,had been examined by the ten best dootors available, and pronounced absolutely incurable— and the benefit society paid hit death dnes exaotiy as if he had beta already dead. Thia pra._io»Uy dead man WM Snbseqot-Dtiy seen to be going about quite hale and hearty. It tranrpired tlr*_t Dr. Williams' pink pills had oared bim. Then the biom tta-t-d. This happened ten yea ■ ago, and the fame of the pills has now -pr-ad a'l over the world. Then again there was the oase in Victoria of Mr W. F. Byrnes, of Toolern, near Melton. He was crippled with consumption of tbe lungs and hip, operated upon at the Melbourne Hospital iv the presence of four distinguished surgeons and subsequently declared hopelessly inour»ble. On one orc*eion be wai so low tbat the 'a-t rites of tbe Charoh were admiait* tared. Bnt Dr. Williams' pink pills raised him from wh«t eeemed his deathbed, and made a •treng.aotive mao of bin. 'Weil, bui, eugS-Bted the San mea, 'the faebionable people who are so largely oonearning yoar pills presnmsb'y take them asa tonio, or some' hing of tbat kind? 'Asa tone,ceit*ioly,' the Manager replied, 'the pills are not a purgative. As they ate proved beyond question to have oared a large number of e_aea of really serious diaordere— paralysis, locomotor ataiie, consumption, rheumatism, rbenmstio fever, soiatioa, neuralgia, aod so foi th, it is obvious that in milder disorders they will act all the more surely.' 'Bat look here,' said the Son man, 'how oan you pretend that one medicine oan oare .neb differing complaint, as yoa have named ?' •Yes, the -ymptoms are different, but Vr. Williams' pink pilla oare tbe underlying cause. This is the score' ; tbis is what makes tbem different from other medicines. Tbey increase the blood supply aod tone np tbe nerves, particularly the apical cord. Toth# former quality is due tbeir unequalled effio*cy in _t s_mia,-on»ur_ption,end all wasting d iseases ; to the latter the oures they ta*effeoed in paralyis, soiatioa, nervous exhaustion, hysteria, and the like Tbey make h<a'thy flesh and warjn,rieh blood,and they give new life to the nerves aad spine. The spoken recommendation of tbe people is the best advertisement we have, fcr we know tbat people who take onr pi ls speak well of tbem. Yoa oall the fashion for Dr. Williams' pink pills a "Sooiety Craze'" I olaim i hat it is not a oris*, bat merely a reoogoit<oa of thei*. real oiefalness Society laaiee wbo are ansemic, sallow.aod tired take them for the sake of their beauty and health Men who are nervous, wotritd.aud tired out take them for the "nerves." Both manhood and womanhood are iamediattly and obv-i ously bettered by them. I do not oall tha a era_».