WHAT DREAMS MAY COME

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10291, 25 April 1895, Page 2

WHAT DREAMS MAY COME

Inar.cfnt lecture a'the Royal InßtJtalion, Dr. B. W Richardson eay 8 that ilia sleep of bealt'i is dreamless. '' Dreams,"' Bays Shakespeare, " nro children 'o£ 8a idle brain." If both the djctor and tha. poet are n\ ht it fol'owa that id c brains are unhealthy brains. No doobt there might be truth in the inference, bnt, Ibat ia not gui c the point. Are a'l dresma signs of a diseased condition ? To this ■ the doctor bits "No." Ho divides drearrs into two cla 6es ; those started by noisea or other cauaoa outsiJe the s'eeper" ami tboao produced by paiu, fever, or iadigostioD. Here we inject a fact, Wo receke multitudes of leltera containing this' affir(nation, almost in. identical nordt; I teas vxtrse tired in the m tn'ttg than tchen I uxntjo bed," To this the doctor has an ' answer. He faya, •' Whinwhfifl'vmritd' »'i Vie morning vary liiity it rswufo /Vobi ' drtctma that tee have forgotten."- Qftite ao,' In other words thero is a bo.lily con dition which may prevent a p'erain" from working by day at hia nsaal calling, tut obliges h!m to labour all night under a mental stimulus of which lie . knows no* thing aave by ita resting exhaustion. 1 heae unhappy wretches tail harder, therefore, for no compensation, wliea they ar» ill. than they have to do to earn a livine when they are well "/hatan infernal and fmhtful fa-el And this toa without taking into account I heir plnaicnl sufforio£ at all times. "i>.ighl," tVd Cole idjre. "in my he:l " F oca one oc the Jeltera referral <6 wo quote wl at a woman cays of herd ughtor : ' Shi was tcom tired tithe morning than when the went to br)." I'oor girl. Thosa "forgotten dreams"hid tossed ber about ns a t-hip ig tossed about in tempeg.. :s ight was I.er day of labour. The m ther's simple ta!o is thfo: "Ia • June, 1890, my daughter Ann Elißibeth be amo iow, weak and fret'ul, aodr complained of pain id tha chert %'ttt ea-ing. Next hor stomaoh was so irritable (bat aba vomited all the food she toofr. It w?i awful to see her brave and strain. For three weeks nothing passed through her stomach except a iitt'o foil water and lima wa'er Lal er on, ber feet and' legi begau to swell and puff from drop By. Sh" was now pale a* death and looked as though slia had not a. drop of frood i Q hot body, ami was always cold. ' Month aftor month drogged by and she got weaker every day. tbe could not wal« without support; for he lia-1 loot tho proper u«eof her 1 ga, and ber body swayed from side to side as sl.e uioved "A doctor atUndid hor for two"re months, and finally said it vas no use eivJDg her BDy more medicine aa it would do no good In May, 1891, Ttook her to tho Dewebury- Infirmary. She got no be ter there, and 1 tbo-jght I waß surely goiag to losober. Kbe was th.n thirteen years of cge "Ona (?ay a lady (Mrs Ligbtoller) called nt my shop, and seeing hjw b*d my daughter was, spoke of a modicuie ca'lod Mother Soigel s Curative Syrup, aod prTSt U?-nrlry£ JsotabotiUfiom tho inornbul LeesCooporativoStoies ami sbe began taking it. In two dais sbe founi a li tie relief;; tile sickness was cot so frequent. £he kept oa with the Syrup and steadily improved. i?oon sJie'waa strong as ever, and has since been in the beat of health and' can takeaDyk'nd of food. After she l.a • taken tbo byrup only two weeks the neighbours' wero surprised at her improve.! appearance ijnd I tdd tb.m what had br. ught it obout—tbafc Seigel s Syrup had done wbat the doc-ora could not do, it saved hor life. Your truly,f-igriQd),(Mrt.)«\p.AuAw^uEAnD. 19, Ureworv Lane, Thornhill L.cs near Dewßbury, Oo obor lth, 11892 " Tbo inciting cause of all this young girl c pitiful suffering was indigestion nnd dysp pua, dropsy beinp one of iU most dangerous symptoms. It attacks both youtlr and ago, its fearful and often fatal results beingdueto thefaot thatphyeioi.ng a»aatly tra.t tho sym;toini (n«tead of tbo disease itself. '•A child s dreams," fays Dr Richa daon, " arc i-i^ns o~ disturbed h< a!th f-nd ebould bs regarded with anxiety." Tb« cmc is true of tbe dretmo of older people. They metn poison in the stomach acd point to the immedin'e use if Mother fieigel'a Curative Syrup.