OUR LETTER BOX

Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 965, 26 June 1897, Page 24

OUR LETTER BOX

I'fljDi^B^irekaurir.^GlaQ to -make ~yonr acr *v" ' ' lfß^^^'tjLCUve).'^bjrtaini^ ShalT3>e~ glad i3 outcorre3ponaents. - - can of - headway by admitting -you are not.' <■ " v ->? The^nroat swagger rv - gifts now— barring jewels—^ seem to be silver ;?-photo-lrames or" -leather "pookeinbooks and ~ ;; cases xnonogramea hi raised metal. •A.o.O.— Your youngster vas- not quite so - fsmart as the urcMn^ho, when.- askea which tcaveUed-faster, heat or cold, promptly- an- - - swef ed, -Heat, o£ course ; anybody can catch>cold^ -„ a . *&Mi— fi was Pundh who said British society •^ ..was divided into, four closes — 'the Haver '-- beenß, Would-bes, Haven't-beens.and NeverT - wlll-bes. "" x The desoriptidtt will also apply to ,the Colonies. " . ■■ - -Cook a-doobliH-doo (Tauranga).— Make it as" - fanny aa you like, but let it always be good- ■\ - naturedtun. No one can object to gossip, .which is free frr m .malice- and strongly flavoured with pleasant good humour. Tommx Eot.— We believe in homoepathy: 'One yerae will prove quite filling enough :— - Z stood on the bridge at midnight, The rain pouring down in a slab, And Lfouud that my.poctets were empty, I hadn't a bob for a cab. , ' AngliO-Colonill.— Your poem, entitled 'The Colonies to England,' is good enough of its kind, but tons of it are being turned out at this t|ine. We have enough MS. verse now ~ on hand to keep all the butter shops and . porkjbutcheries going lor months'. Holt Kussia— Your contention is probably' right." We have seen it stated that the proper name of the capital of Russia' is simply 'Petersburg.! and that the English are the '-.only people which insist ontacktag on "the - ' Saint.' It waß named after Peter the Great, ' ' -of course. -"

r \'*(EromJhe "JLt^oKew 'Workman.) " ' >0n Thursday afternoon, our represents^ tive made his "way to "the 1 humble- home .oft Mfr Thomas Jarvis,~4s-Brown LanerUltimo:.' wasrdiscovered nursing a two-year-old^ ,baby,\and-his face declared ►him to be one" iof the" happiest men in Sydney. He -was up and/about, and able to answer the knock 'at the door.. Although, pale and bearing still the marks of' a critical illness, and a period of pain," it- was very clear that he was an invalid .on the rapid-road to-conva-lescence. " , ' In reply to the, preliminary questions, he- | said: 'You; want to know all about my, , case?* Wellf I am glad of an opportunity to tell you. The facts may be of -value to. those who are stricken as I v?as.' . - -'- ' How long were you suffering.' ' ' Well, twelvemonths agd I got so bad that I 'had to leave off -work, and I have done nothing since then! About five years ago, next Christmas, -I met with an accident, ; I was badly scalded while taking a bath in Pitt-street,-Sydney. Since the accident I have been in failing health, and after four years of gradual- development of the malady, I was forced to give up my billet at the Glebe Island.' , ' What .where the symptoms ?' 4 Simply indescribable. The pains were something terrible. They were just about as. much as I could bear. They were for all the world like as if a saw were cutting my bones in two in every part of me. I had no control over my bowels ox bladder, and was a nuisance to myself and everyone else. I was incessantly shivering and shaking, and could neither eat nor sleep. On the 23rd March last, I saw a wellknown doctor and he told me that my case was utterly hopeless. However, he .. gave me an order to the Director of Charitable 'Institutions. '- „ „ ' Did you make use of the order ?

'No I came home and went to bed, and have been pretty well in bed ever since. Five weeks ago I could not walkacross the floor; in fact, I coulcl-not get out of bed. If« It then that it was all over with me,and only a 'question of days when I -would give up the ghost. "My doctor was att'eDding me, and did- all he could, by opium and morphia nills.to ease the agony I was in. I was under him- for five or six weeks'. He came to the conclusion that I was suffering from Locqmotor. ataxia, or Progressive locomotor ataxy, a disease of the spinal cord characterised by peculiar disturbances of gait, and difficulty in coj ordinating voluntary movements. He tojd me that I might last for ten years, and that I might never get tbe use of my legs. (Just then tbe patient kicked his legs about with energy to show Ithat medical opinion is not infallible.) " Well, just as a drowning, man -will grasp at a straw, I grasped at an idea conveyed by. the advertisement describing .the cure- effected, in the case .of another " boiler-maker J ln England, which I read. in.tbe~- c ;Atistea2iatr Workman,' by Dr. -William's^ PimVPills; for Pale People:- I- read in ihe, advertise: merit of a casewffichßeemed^ofit mv-ownr I determined to give -the PinkiPills a .trial anyway, and- ae£t for' : a.l>ox:. ;.The effect was as marvellous asftt^^as xbagfcalr I was able to eat and sleep\as^bough nothing' was the matter^with,. me*-' ~%t was tbe first appetite and'resfr Ihad for-.many, aLday. It was incredible v , I immediately

tp"'do'''witnont : it;- aTTot. jscfe .1-; am »radidly 'Regaining my' strength.' ■;*'** - ' ' -■^•Htf •&• 100 per cenfe better,'- said Mrtf 'Jarviß;>hoHaU,icbnie in and" taken the baby^onpunf knees. ;',The Pink PJll's havesalved hia' life, and made another man of ( A friend who called in... at this -point saidthat Jaryis looked ten years younger thai —j s '! oan'itoWj'^contintied Jafvis, 'have a cold Bath, and -all the feeling has come back in mv-legs. If I keep on going the v?ay I am, I hope to be able to -resume wbrk as a boiler-maker, and yon know I have to be in the very "pink of health and Btrength, to work at that trade. I am better to-day thaTLl have been at any time during the past-five years. I ascribe all the- change and benefifrto these Fink Pills. They have saved my life. lamin no pain now, whatever,. Ibnd feel like a new man. On the mantlepiece there is a hox of opium and' morphia pills which the doctor gave me.to deaden the" excruciating pain. But they can stay where they* are, for I no longer need them: Everybody who knows me

' loss of appetite, shortness; di'S^Sb^'M&^m^/^ in iUe back; nervous hf^&he£&B&^^£S~* *Mx J. S. T. McGimenfAw^&^M* -*EKFs *^ Labour party- in"- iheC&^|Ml^£§pe&bly^^ seen byoitt/reporte^'tQ^cSn^'e^acanL^:.^, with the remarlofcblefCcaae" of ;Thoma& '"' : s < Jarvis. Me McGoweh says^be has^dwa'-, - '" Jarvis from infanoy, -He "also «. he had io givelnp~hiswotkittt.Qlel)^^telaiia^ ,- abattoirs twelve* months- ago, dwing'^' a' i malady -which -he developed.*' -He :»»ef-s*; wards heard that Jarvis was bed-ridden; <~ and that there was, little xhance- othia)ret% ~ covery. He understood Jarvis was xefaseot^ admission to the Sydney. Hospital, as~hier ' case had been pronounced incurable.^ "Mr ~ McGowen was, therefore like everyoneelae "„ who knew the facts, astounded 'at thffcomplete recovery of Jarvis. •Dr Williams' Pink-Pills -are obtainable- , from all leading .chemißts, or from the I>r Williams - Medicine Coinpany/WeHuigton, , N.Z , who will forward ,(P° bE ~ paid)- on receipt of stampß or post order 1 box for 35., or J dozen for 15s 9d. - " -