SELF-DESTRUCTION

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 3, 20 January 1909, Page 56

SELF-DESTRUCTION

Every act, every thought, every rush of passion, every emotion, every movement of muscle or mind uses up some of the substance of our bodies, just as every step in walking helps to wear out our shoes. Food repairs the loss to some extent, but. the power to digest food grows less from year to year with use. That is the reason, sooner or later, we must die. Now take note. The faster you live, the more you waste; the more you throw away, the sooner you come to the end. Once more. The great waster, the great thief of life is illness. Then, you may

lose in a month what might have lasted a year, and (remember!) not merely of flesh and strength, but of the power to get it back. Here is where Mother Sergei's Syrup docs its wonderful work. It gives you liack lost power. Not all of it, for then you could live for ever; but most of it. Convincing proof of this is afforded by this letter of Mr. Williaim H. Waugh, of Eve Street, Toowoomba, Queensland, dated October Bth, 1907: “I used to be a martyr to biliousness and liver complaint. Often I was unable to work for days at a -time and had to lie up. I loathed'the sightof food, and was unable to sleep, had a foul taste in my mouth, a thickly coated tongue, and felt altogether worse than I am able to describe. Numerous medicines and various methods of treatment having failed to benefit me, I began, some eight or nine years ago, a course of Mother Seigel’s Syrup. I was led to do so by the earnest recommendation of a fellow-workman, who was very enthusiastic about the merits of that remedy. I had not taken many doses before the acute pain between the shoulders, which had so long tortured me, began to subside. Soon 1 could get about with greater ease than I had been able to do for a long time, and my appetite returned. Ten bottles of the Syrup completed my cure; and though I still occasionally take a dose, that is only as a precaution.”