ARE OPALS UNLUCKY?

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue XXIII, 7 December 1901, Page 1070

ARE OPALS UNLUCKY?

The good or bad luck pertaining to that beautiful .stone —the opallias furnished the papers with many items of interest, but probably few ladies would decline a gift of jewellery set with this iridescent gem. When the writer was on the White Cliffs Opal Fields (N.S.W.), the man adjudged the most lucky there was he who owned the largest quantity of this stone. But on further enquiry he brought to light a remarkable but true story of the persistent ill-luck which for years attended a lady resident —a Mrs Jane Wigney. “When I was seventeen,” she explained, “I used to go out sewing, and owing to wet weather I got my feet damp and caught a severe cold. From that time until lately, I seemed the unluckiest mortal alive, for my' health began to fail, and I suffered from headaches, terrible pains at the pit of my stomach, under my shoulder blades, and across the small of my back. Food became tasteless, and 1 had to force myself to eat. My blood grew impoverished and my nerves unstrung. Then the sharp burning pains of sciatica came in my legs and thighs. Despite medical (treatment I got worse and pneumonia set in. One doctor said I had chronic indigestion, another raid my liver was out of order, and still another told me my lungs were affected, but their prescript ions only gave

me partial and temporary relief and the patent medicines, I afterwards tried were also useless. My husband being impressed by the character of the people who had testified to their cure by Dr. Williams’ pink pills, persuaded me to take them. I was pleasurably' surprised when, after using them for a fortnight, I felt improved. As I continued taking them my blood gradually became enriched and I obtained sound (refreshing sleep. My nerves were steadied and I relished my food. I am now strong and well through the use of Dr. Williams’ pink pills, which cured me after medieal treatment and patent medicines had failed.? There is no element of luck or chance in using Dr. Williams’ pink pills; they cannot fail to do good because they enrich the blood, tone up the nerves, and so remove ailments such as anaemia, debility, nervous exhaustion, neuralgia, insomnia, skin diseases, indigestion, liver and kidney troubles, dysentery, rheumatism, consumption of the bowels and lungs, paralysis, etc. From chemists and storekeepers and the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Old Custom House St., Wellington, three shillings per box, six boxes sixteen and six, post free. These pills regulate health, and ladies will find that graceful development and a complexion of roses and lilies follow their use.