COMFORT FOR THE OLD FOLKS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue XII, 17 September 1898, Page 383

COMFORT FOR THE OLD FOLKS.

Suppose the wheels of time could suddenly be reversed, and we eould in an instant go back to the year 1814? \\ hy, man, you wouldn’t recognise England. You wouldn't know how to speak, what to do, or how to understand the things around you. You would be as completely lost as though you were whisked away ami dropped on the Planet Jupiter. Y’ou would find no railways in England, no telegraphs, no running water in the cityhouses, and mighty few of the houses themselves that are standing now. Between 1814, and 1894 the difference is as great as between 1814 and 1600. Yes, and greater. Yet a lady who was bom in 1814 writes us the following letter. She says:—‘ln the early part of 1884 I commenced to feel weak and ailing. My appetite was bad, and after meals I had an aching pain in the chest and a most uncomfortable feeling in the stomach. My mouth tasted badly, and I spat up a sour, sickening fluid. I was much troubled with wind, belching it up frequently. It was about all I could do to get around here and there in the house. ‘A woman that I knew told me of a medicine that she said had done her a great deal of good. She called it Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. She said it would no doubt do as much for me. On hearing this I sent and got a bottle from Mr F. Daniell’s, grocer and draper, in Linton, and began to take it. I am glad to say that in a very short time I felt much better. The bad symptoms I have spoken of went away, and soon I was as strong and hearty as I had been before the trouble came on me.

‘I am eight years of age, and can do almost any kind of work easily and with comfort. I owe it to Mother Seigel’s Syrup, and by taking an occasional dose when I feel ailing it has kept me in good health for ten years. I recomfiiended the Syrup to all my friends, and if by printing my letter in the papers you think other persons —especially those who are advanced in life —may come to hear of the Syrup and use it I shall be very pleased to have you do so. (Signed! Mrs Ann Woollett, Wheeler’s Lane, Linton, near Maidstone, Jan. 16. 1894.’ We do think Mrs Woollett's letter will do good, and so you find it printed here. Now, there are a great many old people in this country, some of them even older than she. .And they need a gentle and good medicine like Mother Seigel’s Syrup, (lid age is a time when life is apt to seem a heavy thing to bear, particularly if there is more or less pain and illness. And this is sure to be the ease. The stomach gives out. Old people can’t digest as they once did. Their food sours and ferments in rhe stomach, and makes all those bad feelings that Mrs Woollett herself had. And when they cannot eat and digest their food of course they get weak and feeble, and have to lie in bed or sit in the corner, unable to take the air mid go about for necessary exer-ise. Then they get to thinking they are in the way. and grow downhearted and lowspirited. Besides, they are likely to be troubled with rheumatism, which is a complaint peculiarly common to old people, and comes from a bad digestion.

Now. for curing and mitigating the ailments of old pepole ther is nothing in the world so good as Mother Seigel’s Syrup. It doesn’t sicken them and tear them all to pieces as some harsh medicines do. It operates gently and thoroughly; it doesn't make them wj.w before it makes them better. F>r indigestion, dyspepsia, rheumatism, and all the aches, pains, and discomforts of age, it is just right. Mother Seigel. who discovered it. knew what her elderly friends needed —nobody better.

Well, we can’t go back to 1814, and we don’t want to. Tn spite of all the growlers and grumblers, we are better off where we are. Tn 1814 Mother Seigel’s Syrup was never heard ot It didn't exist. But everyb- ily knows it in 1894. It is one of the great and good things of this end of the century.