COSTIVENESS.

West Coast Times, 17 March 1910, Page 1

COSTIVENESS.

<••► The Cause of Much Suffering.

To maintain a healthy system the bowels should operate at least once every 24 hours. This is one of Natures provisions which is too often ignored, and the result is untold suffering. Women are the greatest offenders, hut sooner, or later they must pay the penalty. Many women’s ailments are due to the straining and purging", following upon habitual constipation, and in many eases displacements of the pelvic organs may be attributed to the same cause.

T have always found Dr Morse s Indian Root Rills a splendid corrective medicine,’ writes Mrs 31 ary Hands Chaucer road, Napier, ‘and my experience of two years use enables mo to conscientiously state that they do all that you claim for them. They relieve costiveuoss at once, and do not cause pain or sickness. At one time I suffered from rheumatics, but am now quite. free. Dr Morse’s Indian Root Pills are our family medicine and we always keep a bottle in' the house.’ Nature often requires a little assistance, and if this assistance is given at the first indicatou much dstross and suffering may he averted. Mothers, especially, should guard the health of their children, and inculcate regular habits from infancy. As a family remedy for costiveness Dr M orse’s Indian Root Pills have a their action, causing neither weakness. IHiHUririliiiUttftMa

f The heaviest man in Canada died on ~ December 6. His name was Muldo m, and he was a postmaster in a Quebec < village, near Ottawa. Ho weighed 4CII lbs, which was only a. pound and a half less than the record Canadian heavyweight, one John Miller, who died in Goderich, Ontario, a couple of months ago. A unique circumstance about the family is that Mr Muldoon and his five brothers married six sisters, daughters of a neighbouring fiatyner named Kennedy. The oldest Muldoon married the. oldest Kennedy girl, the next oldest Muldoon married the. next Kennedy girl and so on. The deceased was fifty-five years of age and is survived by a widow, six sons and four daughters. Win. Ross, an employee at Tye Bros.’ Allendale .stud farm, at Mentone (Vic), .'and a boatman, had a sensational encounter with two large sharks off Mentone Pier last week. The men were engaged in swimming on of Mr Tye’s trotters, and when about half a mile from the shore two huge sharks made their appearance, and one of them dashed for the swimming horse. Seizing an oar Rc.-s dealt the shark a blew on the body, and the monster swam off. Both sharks then made for the horse, and for fully ten minutes Ross beat them off, his companion mean ■ while rowing his hardest for the shore. When the boat was abreast of the pier the sharks became more daring, and darted at the boat, diving beneath it and almost upsetting it. The cries of the men collected a crowd on the beach and later an effort was made to catch the sharks, but they bit through the, linos each time.