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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 14, 24 July 1885, Page 21

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A laly write 3 : •• I have used Ayer's Sareaparilla in my family for many yearn, and could not keeep house without it. For the r< Vef of The pains consequent upon female weaknesses and irrculaiiifas, I CJißider it without an equal." ° Princy Bismarck took part recently in a debate in the Reichstag on bund^y ob^ervauco. and in the course of his remarks said he could not admit that the English on the whole were better Christiana than his own countrymen, and as for Sunday observance, there was a great deal of mere habit in it. He then went ou to say :— •« I must say that when I was in England I always had a painful and uncomfortable impression of tho English Sunday ; and I was always glad when it was over. I am sure, too, that many Englishmen had the same feeling about it, for they thought to accelerate the march of time (on that day), without witnesses, in a manner which I would rather not character se, and were overjoyed when Monday dawned. Whoever has lived in English society will understand what I mean. On the other hand, if you go into the country around Berlin, if it does not exactly happen to be uear a brewery, and look at the villages, you are pleasnri with the appearance of the people in their holiday garb ' and thank God that we live not under the yoke of an English Sunday.' Twelve snicides in one week, where two a year was the average, throw some light on the vaunted progress made in Home by the The statistics of the maihouse are likewise appalling, ' So great is tbe increase of insanity," says a recent report, " that a new establishment will be required." The general causes of this sudden growth of madness are the tendencies and spirit of the a»e iv which positivism and materialism are the rules of life and the motto oE the civilise I world is " let us eat and drink." Since 1870 the upsetting of tne physical and moral order his re-acted upon th/ people, whose nerves, brain, mind, and heart have been disturbed and shattered. The logic of this report is that the new order of things iv Rome has driven the Romans mad, or that the intruders themselves are insane— perhaps hoth.