IF EATING WERE A CRIME.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 11700, 8 March 1902, Page 4

IF EATING WERE A CRIME.

There was a time when Mrs Hayes considered herself to be what she calls " a gone woman." She actually divided her clothes and other personal "effects among her children. Thank Goodness—but heie is her story, told in her own way; by all odds the best way. "Three years ago," she says, "I had dreadful pains across the left side of my stomach and.under the shoulder-blades. Mv left side swelled up fearfully. I was laid up weeks at a time, work being out of the question. While these fits were on I could neither walk, sit, or stand with comfort.

" I was really ashamed to let the neighbours see me crawling about; so I spent most of my time lying or leaning aeoinst some thing to ease the dreadful pains. "I had been a hard-working woman all my life, but now I lost my strength and dreaded .to eat anything, knowing the woeful suffering I was sure to experience afterwards; as if eating were somehow a crime against the laws of nature. And at night I rolled and tossed about instead of sleeping. " The doctor s:;id it wa« indigestion and no doubt he v.;i> ri;jhi, but he was not able to relieve me. "I considered my-e'f 'a gone wirann.' and told my h"-=bnd I was "sure T rotild not last mnc-h lorme". Tn.-'eel T so fullv persuaded n{ this, iJj;.t I n/f.-a'lv divided my oln'hes and personal effect's among my children. "Thank Goodness and Mntli»r Peel's Syrup I have since woin out most of them myself. "After a lot of •conning and ;• »"* (for I was tired of trrin,? ::".' hr.r.t had about djH •> —- v i-i mv heisrti 1 lor.jmted. to take Seigel's Syrup.

" I was not quite sure of the effect of the first bottle, but my husband insisted on my going en whli it. So I did go on with it, and after I bad got- through, half the second bottle there was no doubt of ij.';

result. I v.-:;s much better; I felt it, an; others could see it.

"• I: was hardly short of a miracle, the way SeigeFs. Syrup brought me round. From a poor, weak, and wretched woman, unable to walk or scarecely to raise my hand to do the smallest piece oi work, it gave me back health and strength, restored me to my husband and family, and enabled me to go on with my work once more, and, in short, made me as well as ever I was in my life. " I am now upwards of 60, and have reared a large family. I have lived in the district about 37 years, and am well known here." (Mrs) Julia Hayes, Mount Keira, Paradise, near Woollongong, N.S.W. October 14th, 1899. . Mr John Hickey, blacksmith, the same place, writes that he has known Mrs Hayes all his life, and (in common with many others) knows her statement to be true. He addes that she is respected by evervone.