THEY MUST AGREE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6647, 20 November 1899, Page 4

THEY MUST AGREE.

As to matters that have no practical outcoma, it is of no consequence whether we agree or not. The earth may be, as some say it is, a molten mass (save for a shell a few miles thick on the outside) , or it may be solid and cool all the way through from London to Sydney. However it may be, we can do nothing about it. So let the scientific chaps go on speculating to their ' heart's content ; ths world will keep revolving as usual, and wo shalV, have to continue picking up our living from its sur--1 faca. Recently in my reading I have come upon articles in certain medical journals—uncanny, uninteresting publications, that they are, fop non-professional perusal — going to show that it is not the heart which impels the blood through the body, but the chemical action of oxygen inhaled by the lungs. A prodigious "discovery, if it is a discovery at all. Yet what odds would it .make? None whatever. Pair women would blush by the help of the capillaries as cf old, and we should tie rags around cut fingers just the same. It follows, my brethren, that some things may be mysterious to the end of the chapter, and no harm done, and others may differ without disturbing the serenity of our passing days — a most soothing reflection. But the advantage or otherwise cl a person's food agreeing or. disagreeing with him is not -a mere matter of opinion. There is only one way to look at that. As a whole, food must agree with us, and we with it, op we are ruined. A lady of Sheffield, Mrs S. A. Smith, suffered a long, wearisome, and costly illness, simply'because her food failed to agree with her. For three years she was weak and wretched on account of it. The light and pleasure went out of her life. Sho needed to eat. of course, just as she needed to breathe ;" yet, after every meal — commonly of light things taken in small quantities, and slowly — she was immediately seized with pains in the stomach, the chest, and the left side. Was not this a bard recompense fcr doing what Nature compelled her to do — to eat? Any act which causes pain is performed as seldom as possible, and as incompletely. For who wants to suffer? Eating so little — not half as much as her body^called for— Mrs Smith lost flesh and strength. Necessarily. Draw more money out of the bank than you deposit and presently the bank returns your cheques marked "No funds." To be sure. Nobody can make twice two equal five. " I got to be so feeble I could scarcely get about," says the lady. "I was like this for three years from the spring of 1893 — being worse in the spring than at other seasons. What to do more than I had done, I . didn't know, when one day, my aunt Mrs William Andrew, of Willoughton, urged me to take Metier Seigel's Syrup. After having done' so for a short time, the complaint — indigestion — was better, and soon it wholly disappeared. lam now entirely cured and strong and hearty as I was before my illness came upon me. * You may rest assured that, after no f ortunato an experience with Mother Seigel's Syrup, I recommended it to all my friends, and in sending you this short statement it is my wish that you should print it for the good of others if you so desire."— (Signed) S. A. Smith, 44, Ditchingham Road, Sheffield, June 3,\1898. "In April of this year (1898)," says another, "my health began to fail. I felt drowsy, and tired with lis least exertion. After evesry meal I had oppression at the chest and sides, and a great deal of "oain. What ever food I took disagreed with* me, andl grew weak. lam a dressmaker, and when at my work I had so great <pain I could hardly bear it. I tried all the usual medicines for indigestion, but got worse and worse. One day in July, I read about Mother Seigel's Syrup, and got a bottle of Mr Hattersley, chemist, West India Dock Road, and in a few days felt better. After taking a second bottle I was cured, amd have been well ever since."— (Signed) (Miss) Minni* Wyatt, 46, West India bock Eoad, London, E., October 14, iB9B. • Yes, it is true, health and life depend on a perfect agreement between ourselves and our. food. This is not a matter of opinion. It is a vital and living relationship, and nothing does so much to promote the agreement as the frequent and timely use of Mother Seigel's Syrup.