Information for Working Women.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7249, 25 October 1890, Page 3

Information for Working Women.

It is a boast often heard that there are a greater variety of occupations open to women nowadays than ever before. Yet the foot is not without its drawbacks, for women are thus tempted into scores of positions for which they aro not fitted, with much consequent misery. Thousands of girls, especially in America, sit all day hammering at tipe-writers and telegraph instruments, stand on their fe&t for a dozen hours at a Btretch in shops and stores, and bend over deßks at some sort of writing, till thfir muscles and head ache together. In both England and America thoy labour in factories long hours over hard and monotonious tasks,often in a fearfully bad atmosphere, and for small wages. When they break down, the expense of having physicians, coupled with other costs of illness, is apt to consume their little savings. Therefore any information which will enable them to lessen such an outgo must be welcomed by the host of working women. On this point a recent letter received by us may throw a ray of light. The writer says : " When a woman has to depend upon her fingers solely for a living it is a terrible thing to fall i'l, even though it may be only for a few days or weeks. This was my own situation when I was first taken bad about ten years ago. It began with what I shall have to describe as a heavy, sinking feeling at the pit of the stomach, and a sensation of giddiness and faintness whilst at meals. On rising from the table I would often be attacked with palpitation of the heart, which beat so I didn't know wliafc to do with myself. Some days I, would not eat a mouthful of solid food, bo much afraid wa3 l of the pain it gave me. I have gone without food for three consecutive days and nightßjtill I thought I must surely starve. At the same time tho desire to eat was so great I could have clutched eagerly at the hardest piece of stale bread. I got so bad I had to lie in bed for days, and grew so weak I could scarcely raise myself on my elbows. I consulted doctor after doctor ; I think I must have had not less than a dozen altogether. One called my illness by one name, and tho others by other names. No two of them agreod as to what it really wbb that ailed me>. None of them did me any good, though my money went fast enough to pay them, and to buy the medicine they ordered. One day I saw in the Christian Ago an account of Mother Seigle's Curative Syrup. Yet how could I believe it f I had trusted and hoped, and been deceived so often. Jnless — which seldom happens — people get the right medicine at first, it is a wonder to me how they ever get it at all. What made me feel that Mother Seigle's remedy might be of Bomo usd I don't know ; but I think it was because it wa3 discovered and made by a good woman who had been cured by it herself. At all ovents I sent for it and began to take it Up to the time when Iwritethisletterlhavetakonitsevon weeks, and the change it has produced has astonished all who know me. The pain about my heart is -entirely gone, and I gain strength every day." Norß. — The writer ot the above letter requested that her name should not be published. "Wo feol bound to respect her wishes, although we have no doubt she will consent to our giving her name and address to any of her own sex who may desiro to write to her, either directly or through us. A somewhat similar case is that of Mrs. Annie West, oE Manor Road, Bournemouth, Hants, who writes under a late dato: " I desire to inform you of my wonderful recovery after taking Mother Seigle's Curative Syrup, I was so low as to be unable to rise from my bed, and thought I should never be able to stand on my feet again. Bnt by the blessing of God, and the use of the Syrup, I am so far recovered as to be able to return to my work. I am a poor widow and have to work for my living, and have on one or two occasions sold some of my things to buy Seiglo's Syrup. For years I could not keep any food down and suffered from terrible headache. Sow that I am well once more, I shall soon earn back a hundred tunes over tho prico of tho good medicino that drove away my complaint.