Health and Wealth.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVIII, Issue IX, 1 March 1902, Page 390

Health and Wealth.

Most people talk of health and wealth as if they- were two separate and distinct things. This is very misleading. They are nothing of the sort. Whoever enjoys perfect health is owner of the most valuable kind of wealth it is possible for any mortal to possess. Can any sane being

doubt that a healthy, vigorous, working man, dependent for his living upon his daily toil, is infinitely wealthier than a dyspeptic or gouty millionaire, who travels around the world and lives in the best hotels, vainlyseeking for a day’s ease? What person of sense is there who would not choose to be the former, rather than the latter? Of course there are some people who have both money and health, just as there are others who have neither. Those with the double advantage, if they are not happy, must look to their own conduct for the cause: those with the double deprivation must seek to regain their health, for without it it is tolerably sure they will not obtain many of the world’s prizes. Health is the best capital. Without health that other sort of capital handled by bankers cannot be obtained: or if already obtained, cannot be enjoyed. The worker, therefore. laid aside by sickness, must seek recovery by the best and shortest road. This secret —which should be no secret—is understood by Mrs Annie Green, of St. George's Hall Buildings. Great North Road. Auckland. New Zealand. Writing on the 3rd December. 1900. this lady says: “For nearly three years I suffered from acute indigestion. continual headaches, sleepless nights, and a languid, tired feeling. A great part of my time was spent in bed. as I was quite unable to attend to my duties. About two months ago, after I had been in bed for four weeks, a friend who came to see me urged me to try Mother Seigel’s Syrup, insisting upon that medicine being the most efficacious remedy in the world in all cases of indigestion and dyspepsia. As the prescriptions of several eminent doctors who had attended me had afforded me no relief at all. I was sceptical of the merits of Seigel’s Syrup: but my friend was convinced of its potency, and then and there obtained and gave me my first bottle of it. It gave me immediate relief, and before that one bottle had been all taken the distressing symptoms had almost disappeared. I purchased another bottle myself, which completed my cure. I am deeply grateful to the friend who insisted on my trying Mother Seigel’s Syrup, as its effect, in my case at least, has been simply marvellous.” Mrs Green is a native of Auckland, and has been in business at her present address for over nine years. No one is better able to appreciate the truth that health is wealth than a business woman.