SHE CARRIES IT WITH HER.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3559, 8 May 1901, Page 4

SHE CARRIES IT WITH HER.

When Mrs Mary Wren is about to start on a trip to Sydney she always packs in her bag a bottle of Mother Seigel's Syrup. Of course she is careful to put it where it is not likely toi get broken, as she does not want to waste the medicine, neither does "she want to spoil her things. So far, I am glad to say, she has carried her precious bottle without an accident. And when she gets home to Acacia.Cottage. Bridge Street, Muswellbrook, New South Wales, she has always reason to be thankful that she took the Syrnp with her. For, you must, know," that 'on the 20th day of Sept., 1899, Mrs Wren was 75 years old, and fifty of them she has spent in the town of Muswellbrook. She has had fifteen children, ten of whom are still living; certainly a record of which she has a right to be proud. Now, to make this little tale run straight and to keep the kinks out of it, we shall have to hark back to the place where it properly starts. Better still, perhaps, to let the good old lady tell it herself, as she does in a letter dated 21st of September (next day after her birthday), 1899. "Most of my life," so she goes on, "I had suffered from indigestion and wind on the stomach. I have often been up half the night trying to relieve the terrible pains caused by the wind. " I spent a lot of money on the essence of ginger and other things, but they all failed miserably. The essence of ginger ■would warm me for a few minutes, and then the pains would be on again; just as a barking dog begins again after you have hit hrni with something. That's the way it- was with me. '" About five years ago I had a very bad time with influenza; and when I was slowly getting over that the indigestion came on worse than ever. We couldn't. do anything for it, or with it; no more could the doctors. i "Then an old friend happened' in, and she said, 'Why don't you take Mother Seigel's Syrup?" I told her I didn't believe in any of the advertised medicines. She -went on imploring and entreating,, and I said she might as well save her breath, for she couldn't move me an inch, out of mv own. opinions.

fetch it to me? Then I gave in and began trying it. That very bottle helped, and, after taking a few bottles more, I was as well as anybody wants to be. "Since using Mother Seigel's Syrup I have got rid of all my pains and aches, and to make sure of keeping them away I carry a bottle with me wherever I go."— Mary Wren.. Mr William John Davison, Saddle and Harness Maker, of Muswellbrook, writes that ha has known Mrs Wren for 30 years, and the public may put full faith in every word she says.