IT IS EASY TO ASK QUESTIONS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8517, 8 April 1895, Page 4

IT IS EASY TO ASK QUESTIONS.

A child can asfc questions that s wise man can't anewer. Yes; and there are lomo questions that the ablest doctors don't like to have people »«k them. Say a question of this sort— while w« are about it, however, we might as well tell the story straight away and have done with it.

Mrs Sarah Maoe wag very ill with influenza. That was in February, 1892, the time of the epidemic. The attack was severe. She was suddenly leined with ■> violent pain in the head (both front and baok) and tempto. She had pain in all her jointi too, and wss hob and f«veri»b. ' She went to bed and sent for the doctor. H« came, examined her, took her temperature —over 100 degrees-— and naio very little, like a wise man. The lady could not turn herself in bed. She lired on slops, snob a« milk and broth} abe could not swallow a morsel of solid food. Her husband preued her to take strong food, saving, "If you don't eat, you will starve." Bight enough ; but he forgot that when one can't eat ho can't eat. and there's an end.

Well she got weaker and weaker, and fell away until there wasn't much left of her but skin and hone. Then, in her anxiety, she put her question : " Doctor, do you think I shall get well?"

The doctor's answer was true and hoae'sr; we like and respect him for it. He aaid : " Mrs Mace Ido not know." Ho couldn't; tell. Neither could any other doctor. No, not even if ho had a string of titles to his name as long m a kite's tail. Bub did *he get well P Watt a bit. We must hark back a minute now.

Along about the 10th March, 1880, Mrs Mace began to feel tired, languid, and weary, as if her work were too muoh for her, »he said. She had a b«d lasts in the mouth, poor appetite, and whatevlr sho ata garo her pain at the oheit and heart. " I had," she continues, " a dull, heavy pain at the right sido and between the shoulders, and a sinkieg feeling at the pit of the stomaoh.nud a rising of foul gas in my throat. Later on I had rheumatic psinßjnmy hearfc.ohesfc, and baok. I 8?nf; for a doctor who attended me for six weeks, but I got worse. One day the cook said, • Why don't you try Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup ?'— this ' being a medioine my mistress (I was living with b> lady in Camden Town) kept in the house for family use. I did so, and was soon as atrong as ever.

Tears fled away, and in 1891 she had the first attftok of influenza, and in 1892 tha second, already deaoribed in part. We new complete the account df the 1892 attack.

Mrs Mace says : " The doctor continued to attend me for fire weeks, and I took hia* medicines for that time, but gained bo strength. After having suffered for seven weeks, I said to my husband, ' I Milt now see what Mother Seigel'a Curative Syrup will do for me. Perhaps it may cure influeza as well as other ailments.' I carried out this resolution 5 began taking the Syrup, and wa» soon on my feet again, and have since kept in excellent health, taking an occasional dose when needed. (Signed). SABAE Maoe, Monk's Farm, Great: Wartey, Brentwood, Essex, Auguit 27fch, 1892." Now wo haye never sdrertiied Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup as ■> remedy for influenza. Yet tho fsats stated by Mrs Mace o»nnot be disputed. What ie tho conolu»ion? A very simple one indeed. She did not have influenza until her system had been debilitated by indigestion and dyspepsia. It is euoh people generally (ftlmost wholly) that all epidemic disease* attack. The dreaded cholera scarcely evar touches anybody except a dyspeptic cholera is a malady of the bowels oaly The more we hear of disease the more the proof piles up showing that persons with a sound digestion are cafe against , dying of anything except violence or old (age. Tha Byrup cured Mrs Mace's iuQuenza by taking away the ground ib stood oa— tao tor. pidity of her digestion. She once asked, "Doctor, do you think I ssast *- A "WSJ