IF EATING WERE A CRIME.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10502, 25 November 1901, Page 1

IF EATING WERE A CRIME.

There was a time when Mrs Hayes considered herself to be what she calls "a gone woman.'' She actually divided her clothes and other personal effects among her children. Thank Goodness — but h«re is her .story, told in her own ■words ; by all odds the best way. "Three years ago," she says, "I had dreadful pains across the left side of my stomach and under the shoulderblades. My left side swelled up fearfully. I was laid up for weeks at n time, work being out of the question. While these fits were on I could neither walk, sit, or stand with comfort.

"I was really ashamed to -let the neighbours see me crawling about;- so I spent most of my time lying' down or leaning against something to easo the dreadful pains. "I had been a hard-working woman alhmy 1 life, but now I lost my strength and dreaded to eat anything, knowing the woeful suffering I was sure to experience afterrwards; as if eating were somehow a crime against the' law of nature. And at> night I rolled and tossed about instead of sleeping. "The doctor -said it was indigestion, and no doubt' he was right, but lie was not able to relieve me.

"I considered myself 'a gone woman,' and told my husband I was sure I could not last much longer. Indeed I was so fully pcruaded of this that I actually divided my clothes and personal effects among my children. "Thank Goodness and Mother Seigel's Syrup, I have since worn out most of them myself. ■ . "After a lot of coaxing and argument (for I was tired of trying things, and hope had about died away in my heart) I consented to take Seigel's Syrup. "1 was not quite sure of the effect of the 1 first bottle, but my husband insisted on my going on with it. So I did go on with it, and after I had got through half the second bottle there was no doubt of the result. I was much better; I felt it, and others could see it. "It- was hardly short of a miracle, tho way Seigel's Syrup brought me round. From a poor, weak, and wretched woman, unable to walk, or scarcely to raise my hand to do the smallest piece of work, it gave me back health and strength, restored me to my husband and family, enabled me to go on with my work once more, and, in short, made me as well as ever I was in my life.

"I an now upwards of 60, and have reared a large family. I have lived in tho district about 37 years, and am well-known here."— (Mrs) Julia Hayes, Mount Keira, Paradise, -near Wollon-gf-nV, N.S.W., October. 14, 1899. . 1.1-- John Hickay, blacksmith, at the sr.ine place, writes that he has known Mrs Hayes all his life, and (in common with many others) knows her statement to be true. He adds that she is rcßpeeted by everyone.

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