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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9938, 15 January 1900, Page 1

SLEEP WHEN WORK IS DONE. During the late summer (1896) I passed several weeks in a foreign city, nearly 700 miles further south than London. We had aoout ten days intense heat, and for six nights, when it was worse, I do not think I slept as many hours altogether. The resulting nervous collapse was simply awful. My brain reeled. I could neither understand or do anything rightly. I walked, as the good Book says, "in a vain show." What a blessed thing is sleep ; how destructive, how killing to lose it. In healthy sleep the nervous system is inactive — more especially that of the brain and spinal cord. The body lies quiet, the muscles relaxed, the pulse slower than when we are awake, and the breathing less frequent, but deeper. Then nature — wise keeper of the House of Life — proceeds to renew the energies expended through the day. To misß this renewal, even in part, is to tread the edge of insanity and look into the mouth of death. "Methought I heard a voice cry, 'Sleep |no ]/ (us ; Macbeth doth murder sleep !' " So su.il Kacbctli himself; but there is a povcr ulncli murders more sleep than ever did Duncan's assassin; and to that Mis Bcattie alludes when she says of her daughter, "She got no sleep." "In May, 1891," writes the lady, "my daughter Letitia fell into a low, weak ; condition, and could not get up her I strength. She had no appetite, and what little- food she took gave" her great pain ai, the chest and side. She got no sleep at night, and became very nervous and low-spirited. , "As time passed by she grew weaker and more feeble, and we thought she would never get better. A doctor attended her, but none of his medicines seemed to suit her case, and for two yeara she continued to suffer. "One day I read in a book about Mother Siegel'a Curative Syrup, and what it had done for others. She got a bottle from Mr Nicholls, chemist, Donegal Place, and after taking it began to improve, being ablo to eat, and her food agreeing wHh. her. After having used this medicine <v short time she was as strong and veil. as ever, and has since been In good health. For a long time I myself suffered from weakness and indigestion, and seeing what good Mother Soigel's Syrup had done, I took it and was completely restored to sound health. You may use this statement as you like. ! (Signed) Mrs Mary Beattie, 23, Trinity Square, Belfast, August lith, 1896." "In the early part of 1894," writes another, "I began to suffer from indigestion. I had a poor appetite, and all food gave me pain at mv chest and a gnawing feeling at the stomach. No matter how light the food I took I had pain and sick headache,