WHAT STRUCK HIM!

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5554, 27 February 1886, Page 1

WHAT STRUCK HIM !

(Boston H-erald.) " How are Americans liked in England ?" And Mr B. F. Larrabee, of -42, Chester Square, ex-director of the "Now York and Boston Despatch Express Company," who has recently returned from a considerable residence in London, answered, " If they havo good recommendations and behave themselves they are well treated, but they will like the Engliah poople, any way, when acquaintance ripens into confidence." " How do the English compare with Americans ? " "Tho finest looking men in the world can be seen on pleasant days of the London eeaeon promenading Piccadilly. The English ladies, howevor, are neither so neat in appearance nor so graceful of form and movement as the Americans, but they seem to enjoy more robust health." " Are English people longer lived than our people ? " " I don't know. I have not fully investigated. But I remember once hearing read a newspaper paragraph entitled ' Why do Englishmen Live Longer than Americans '. ' That paragraph, by the way, once solved a great myHtery forme." "Ah, indeed, another 'tribute to the power of the Press ? ' " suggested the reporter. "Yes, if yon so please to call it. In 1879, when 1 was residing at the Commonwealth Hotel in this city, I had occasion to do some business in Washington street. When I got to the corner of Franklin, I Becincd to feel a blow in the breast and fell to the pavement like a dead man. When I recovered consciousness, I was taken to my hotel. I first thought perhaps somo enemy had struck me, but my physicians assured me that such could not be the ease and advised strictest quiet. For six ' long weeks I was unable to lie down. I was violently ill, and my physicians Baid I would probably never walk tbe stroets of Boston again. I did not want to die, but who can expect to live when all doctora say he cannot . " And Mr Larrabee smiled, sarcastically, and expressed himself very j freely concerning the number of common ' disorders which are controlled by remedies ' which physicians will not employ. " But how about that paragraph ? " " Yea, yes. When I was obliged to sit ! up in bed day and night for fear of sufio--1 cation, nnd hourly expected death, my ; nurse begged the privilege of reading that r paragraph to me. I refused him at first, but he persisted. It described my condii tion so exactly, that for the first time I began to realise what had pro.trated me. j I wa« filled with a Btrange hope. lat once I dismissed my physician, and immediately . began Warner's Safe Cure. Jn a few

months, I was restored to perfect health, notwithstanding mine was one of the worst possible cases of Bright's disease of the kidneyß, which all my physicians— and I had tho best specialists in Boston — said was incurable. I tell you,when a man gets into the desperate condition I was in, he doesn't forget what rescues him." " But were the effects permanent ?" "That was five yfears ago," said Mr Larrabee, " and for thirty years I have not been so well as during the past five years. If I had known what I do now, I would havo checked the matter long ago, for it was in my system for years, revealing itself in my blood, by frequent attacks of chills, jaundice, vertigo, typhoid fever, nervousness, wakeful nights, &c, &*.. I took over forty bottles before i got up, and over one hundred and fifty before I was well. I have commended that treatment in thousands of cases of general debility, kidney and liver disorder, &c, and have never heard ill concerning it. I bank on it." "Speaking of paragraphs, how do English papers compare with American in this particular ? " " Well, they have fewer witty paragraphs, but the smaller papers, like the * Pall Mall Gazette/ * St James' Gazette,' and 'Truth/ abound in sharp, incisive paragraphs without wit. In general, American papers make the most of news, the London papers make the most of opinion."