FOUNTAINS IN PLAY.

Timaru Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 6069, 1 October 1894, Page 4

FOUNTAINS IN PLAY.

Who doesn't enj >y looking at a fonntain in play P The bright water leaps into the air as though it were a living, oonscions thing. Then at the summit of its arch it is shattered into spray by the wind, or wafted to and fro like the skirls of a dancing girl. And all the while the roar of its rush and the tinkling melody of its fall fill the air. This is water having a good time — water in high spirits. What makes it jump, sing, and laugh in that fachion r" Wait a bit. If you pl«a»e, we will have the explanation later on. Perhaps you know already ; perhaps not. It isn't so easy to know things from tho bottom. Under date of Maroh 16th, 1892, a lad? writes that for twenty years she always felt low spirited Now what ia meant by ' spirits ' in i this sense is a condition of the mind in respeot of our being oheerful, happy, enjoying our surroundings, taking delight in all sorts of minor matter;, and, in a word, making the most of life ourselves and helping others to make the most of it. Well, then, it ia both a glorious and a profitable thing to be always in good spirits j I wish I oould be myielf. But I can't; anjhow I'm not. B either is anybody. Yet why not P What makes our hearts sink down like plummet, and then rise like a oork ? Before we answer let us read the rest of the letter. The writer says s " For twenty years I have suffered from liver complaint and indigestion. I was constantly tired, weak, and languid. My skin was a sallow oolour, and I bad great pain at the back and shoulders. 11 My appetite was poor, and I had a bad taite in the mouth, and much pain abd weight at the obest after ratiDg. I was also frequently siok, throwing up a sour, frothy fluid. I look different kinds of medicine, but none of them gave me relief, and I got weaker and weaker. "In Maroh, 1884, 1 became so bad that I called a doctor, who attended me off and on for twelve months. He gave me medioinea but I grew no better, as nothing he prescribed teemed to reaih my complaint. Abcufc tbia time I heard of Mother Ssigel's Byrup, and commenced taking ic. In lets than a month ail my pain and distress oeaied, and I have eioce been in good health. I kept a bottle of the Syrup in the houss as a family medicine and by taking an occasional dose have needed no doctor. • I may mention that my aunt, who live! at West Wj combe, Buoka, was afflicted with indigestion and dyspepsia. Bhe states that is her opinion Molhor Seieel's Syrup h»B been the means of saving her life. You are a( liberty to use this statement as you ma; see fit. Yonrs truly, (Signed) Mrs Harriet! Cutler, Barton House, 33, Kenmure Boad, Haokney, London, No philosopher has yet been able to say what is the exaot relation of the -mind to the body. This much, however, exp«nenos constantly aißures us of : that it is very intimate, and that the co~dilion of the mental facultiet depends upon that of the bed;. As birds sing when the sun shines, and are dumb in the dark, so the spirits and mental powers riae and express themselves when we are in health, and are dull acd torpid wh n tho body ii under the weight of pain and aisease. And to know that is to know all we require to acl upoD. Everything, money, influence, and aver; form of success d spends so largely upot health that by universal oonsent we don'l eipeot good service from those who are ill. And illnew, nine times in ten, means pre cisoly what Mrs Cutler suffered from such € long and weary period — indigestion anc dyspepsia— the ailment oured (when thi doctors are done with their frnitleia ex periments) by Mother Seigel's Curativi Qjrup. Tbe fountains play only when the water i; foroed powerfully through their pipes b] gravity or by machinery. So the spirits art free and elastic only when the organs withii us aot without hindrance or obstruction.