WHAT STRUCK HIM!

Temuka Leader, Issue 1539, 31 July 1886, Page 3

WHAT STRUCK HIM!

(Bostsn Herald.) “ How are American! liked in England P " And Mr. B. F. Larrabee, of 42 Obeiter Square, ex-director of the “New York and Boston Despatch Express Company,” who has recently returned from a considerable residence in London, answered : “If they hare good recommendations and behave themselves they are well treated, but they will like the English people, any way, when acquaintance ripens into confidence.’’ “ How do the English compare with Americans ?” The finest looking men in the world can he seen on pleasant days of the London season, promenading Piccadilly. The English ladies, however, are neither so neat in apperance nor so graceful of form and movement as the Americans, bat they seem to enjoy more robust health. “ Are English people longer lived than our people P” “ I don't know. I have not fully investigated. But I remember once hearing read a newspaper paragraph, entitled, ‘ Why do Englishmen Live Longer than Americans P’ That paragraph, by the way, once solved a great mystery for me.” “Ah, indeed, another ' tribute to the power of the press ?’ ” Suggested the reporter. “ Yes, if yon so to call it. In 1879, when I was residing at the Commonwealth Hotel, in this city, I had occasion to do some business in Washington street. When I got to the corner of Franklin, I seemed to feel a blow in the breast and fell to the pavement like a dead man. Wheal recovered censoiousness I was taken to my hotel. I first thought some enemy had struck mo, but my physicians assured me that such could not be the case, and advised strictest quiet. For six long weeks I was unable to He down. I was violently 111, and my physicians said I would probably never walk the streets of Boston again. I did not want to die, but who can expect to live when all doctors say he cannot ?'* And Mr Larrabee smiled, saroastioaUyj and expressed himself very freely concerning the number of common disorders which are controlled by remedies which physicians will not employ. “ But how shout that paragraph ?” “Yes, yes. When I was obliged to sit up in bed day and night for fear of suffocation, and hourly expected death, my nurse begged the privilege of reading that paragraph to me. I refused him at first, but he persisted. It described my condition so exactly, that for the first time I began to realise what had prostrated me, I was filled with n strange hope, lat once dismissed my physician and immediately began Warner’s Safe Cure. In a few months, I was restored to perfect health, notwithstanding mine was one of the worst possible eases of Bright’s disease of the kidneys, which all my physicians—?and I had the best specialists in was incurable. J tell j cm, when a man gets into the desperate condition I was In, he doesn't forget what rescue* him.” “ But were the effect* permanent P” “That was five years ago,” said Mr Larrabee, “ and for thirty years I have not been so well as during the past five years. I If I had known what Ido now, I would , have checked the matter long ago, for it wis in my system for years, revealipg itself in my blood, by frequent attacks of chills, jaundice, vertigo, typhoid fever, nervousness, wakeful nights, etc., etc. I took over forty bottles before I got np, and over one hundred and fifty before 1 was well. I have commended that treatment in thousands of cases of general debility, kidney and liver disorder, etc., and have never heard ill can corning it. I bank on it.” “ Speaking of paragraphs, how do English papers compare With American in this partioular P” “ Well, they have fewer witty parasraphs, but the smaller papers, like the Pall Mall Gszrtte, St. James’ Q-szette, and Truth, abound in sharp, incisive paragraphs without, wit. In general, American papers make the most of news, the London papers make the most of opinion.”