MOTHER AND DAUGHTER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7731, 15 June 1903, Page 1

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER.

It is remarkable how greatly our estimate of ourselves and our qualities differs from the estimate formed of us by others. If the thing were practicable, many folks would realise heavily by selling themselves at their own valuation (if they could find customers), and afterwards buying themselves back on the basis of other people's notion of their worth. The more numerous and the harder the blows aimed at our selfconceit in the days of our youth the better for us. They pulverise, as it were, the worse part of our nature, and nothing surI vives the process but what deserves to endure. "And what are you?" asked a Lord Chief Justice of England of a witness who had just given some rambling and discreditable evidence. "I employ myself as a surgeon," said the witness. " But does anybody else employ you as a surgeon? Are you a surgeon?'' asked the^Judge. And thereat the witness collapsed. ; . It is claimed for all medicines that they effect cures, though the fact 'is that some do arid some do not. Mother SiegelV Curative Syrup has been very extensively used for thirty years,: and. is to-day the jirincipal domestic medicine in sixteen different countries. The number of cures it has effected (especially among persons suffering from indigestion and bilious diseases) is quite incalculable. Of the many thousands of testimonials as to its efficacy voluntarjly given, here is an interesting one from a mother and daughter. "For several year's," writes Mrs Hutchison, of Newcastle Road, Jesmc-nd, N.S.W., on , Oct. 19, 1902, "I suffered agonies from indigestion anil liver complaint. I could neither eat, sleep nor work — in fact, did not know what it was to enjoy a single hour of freedom from pain. I was attended to two of the cleverest medical men in the Newcastle district, but their treatment, failed to bring me any relief. Indeed, I went steadily down hill, and began to fear that my case was beyond the aid of medicine. I grew weakly and thin, anil became dejected, when, two years ago, I was advised to try what Mother Siegel's Curative Syrup could do for me. It was a happy decision, for before I had taken a quarter of the first bottle my health* was much improved. I continued to take the medicine, According to the directions, for five weeks, by the end of which time. I was cured. . The cure is evidently a permanent one, for I have remained well and so*und to the present day." ' ( This is good testimony — testimony to be proud; of. But it don't stop, here. Mother Siegel's Curative~Syrup not only cured Mrs Hutchison of her indigestion and liver complaint, but, ,;in the case of her daughter Agnes, arrested the progress of an insidious and dangerous malady, which, if rllowed to range unchecked, might have had fatal results. Here is Mrs Hutchison's own description of "her daughter's case : — " My daughter," she says,; " was in a. very bad way. ■" She wa*> suffering from severe nervous debility. She wasted aiway to a skeleton, and appeared to have no blood in iher body. »She was so weakly that she ; could not walk without assistance, and was often compelled to keep to bed for days together. The doctors seemed to be much in the dark as. to her ailmentj and as impotent- in treating her case as they had been in their treatment of mine, so I determined to experiment on her with the medicine which had proved such a boon to myself. The result was that within two months * few boty^.or-'j^toth'err.^jg.el's -GWasye?/Syr^p^clii^^ less invalid/ into a heartyi healthy,' happy girl/ ■ She remains as wfcll as one could wish her to t>o."|; Mrs Hutchison* is well known in jesmond and JCambton, amid has 'lived in these places for twenty years. She is a native of Scotland, an&jcame to Australia in 1872.