FAIRLY WELL ISN'T WELL ENOUGH.

West Coast Times, Issue 11289, 11 May 1899, Page 4

FAIRLY WELL ISN'T WELL ENOUGH.

Ltt us Bay that your wages are twenty shillings a week. You have worked hard, done your .best, and feel that yon have earned your money. Very good. Now imagine that - when Saturday night comes your employer hems and haws, and wants to put you off with fifteen. I'll be bound you wou'd think yourself hardly treated. What are the great strikes in this country c mmonly about 1 Why, in some fashion they are about wages or hours ; it comes to the same thing. Be it understood that the writer uses this fact as an illustration of another fact — that is all. What is that other fact ? We will work it out of the following personal statement.

"Nearly all my- life," says Mrs Sarah Dalby, " I have been subject to attacks of biliousness accompanied with sickness, but fcot on fairly well up to the early part of 1882. At this time I began to feel heavy, dull, and tired, with an all-gone, sinking sensation. My skin %\a» sallow, and the wbit s of my eyes of a yellow tinge."

• As everybody knows, or ought to ki:o ?, the colouring matter was bile. The liver being torpid, and, therefore, failing to remove. the bile from the blood, it entered the skin; and showed itself on the suifice. But the'discolouration isn't the worst- mischief done by the vagab jnd bile, containing many poisonous waste elements; it disorders the whole system anet sets up troublesome and dangerous symptoms, some of which the lp.dy names.

" I had a bad taste in the mouth," she goes on to say ; " and, in the morning particularly, was often very 4ok, retching so violently that I dreaded to see the dawn of day.

"My appet te .was poor, and after eating I had pairi at my chest and side. Frequently I couldn't bring myself to touch food -at all ; my stomach seemed to rebel at the very thought of it."

[This was ba'l, but the stomach was right, nevertheless. More food would have made more pain, more indigested matter to ferment and turn sour, more of a v load for tlfre sleepy liver, more poison for the- nerves, kidneys, and skin. And yet/ without the food, how was she to live } It was' like being ground between the- upper and the nether millstones,]

" After this, " runs the letter, " I had great pain and fluttering at the heart. Sometimes^ I/yj)uld have fits of dizziness .and 'go off into a faint, which leftTme quite prostrated. Then my nerves became, so Upset and-ex-citable that I got no proper sleep at' night, (-aft ol on account of loss of strength I was obliged to lie in bed all day for days together. I went to one doctor after another, and attended at Bartholomew's and the University Hospitals, but was none the better for ft all.

" In September, 1883, my husband read in Reynolds' Newspa])er about Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and got me a bottle, of it. After taking it for 'three days I felt relieved. Encouraged and cheered by this I kept on faking the Syrup, and in a short time all the pain and distress abated, and i was well — better than 1 had ever been. That is ten years ago, and since then I have never ailed anything. With sincere thanks, I am, yours truly (Signed) Mrs Sarah Dalby, 93, Tottenham Road, Kingsland, London, N., January 2nd, 1894."

Now run your eye back to the first sentence^,of Mrs Dalby's letter, and you w^ll come upon these words, ' c I got on fairly well, " &c. lids is the sad thought. Her life Has always been at a discount ; she has always got less than her due ; she lost part, of her health — wages. Do you take my meaning 1 Of course. Whatever may be our differences of opinion as to the rights of capital and the value of labour, it is certain that every human being is entitled to perfect health — without reduction, without drawback. All the more, as nobody else loses what one person thus gains. No, no. On the contrary, a perfectly healthy person is ,a benefit and a blessing to all who are brought into relations with him.

But do all have such health ? God help us, no very, very few. Why not? Ah, the answer is too big; I can't give it to-day. To the vast crowd who only ge<fbn "fairly well" I tonder niy sympathy, and advise a trial of the remedy mentioned by Mrs Dalby,