MRS CALAP GOES TO SEE MRS MILLS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 48, 30 March 1894, Page 11

MRS CALAP GOES TO SEE MRS MILLS.

And it was not for an hour's chat over a cup of tea that she went to see her, but on a much more serious matter. For Mrs Mills had been quoted in tbe newspapers as uaving said something which might be of importance to Mrs Calap, and also to others. Now the nawsp«pers print so many things that nobody oan make head or tail of, that Mrs Calap thought the only sure way was to go and see Mrs Mills and ask her if it was true what was said. What Mrs Mills told her is contained in the annexed statement made about a year afterwards : "I, Jane Calap, of 3, Vincent Street, York Brad, Leeds, do solemnly and sincerely daclare as follows : — "In the early part of November, 1887, I fell into a low, weak state. I was tired, languid and weary and felt as if something had come over me. AU my bones ached and I had so much pain that I did not know where to put myself. I was constantly vomiting, ; sometimes a green, bitter fluid came away, at other times frothy water. I had a dull, heavy pain at the right side, the whites of my eyes were a yellow colour, and my skin was sallow as if I had the jaundice. I had an awful taste in the mouth, my tongue and teeth being covered with slime so thick that I had to scrape it away. My appetite fell away, and after eating the simplest and lightest food I had so much pain that it nearly killed me. I had always great pain and weight at my chest and through to my back, also a gnawing sinking sensation at the pit of my Btomach. I was greatly troubled with wind which rolled all over me, and gave me so much pain it was like spasms, for I could not straighten myself. I gradually got weaker and weaker, and felt so weak and exhausted that I could scarcely drag myself along. As time went on I wasted away until I got as thin as a match, and could barely walk across the floor. I felt so downhearted that I used to say L shall never get better any more in this world. I took all sorts of medicines, but finding myself getting worse I got a recommendation to the Leeds Infirmary, where I was attended to by several doctors, who gave me medicines which I took month after month, but I got no better. Tbe doc* tors sounded my chest and lungs, and seemed puzzled with my Bufferings, for they frequently changed my medicine. Getting no better I next went to tbe Dispensary in North street, and persevered taking their medicines, but it was all to no purpose. I now gave up taking physic, for I had lost all faith in it, and my Bufferings continued until January, 1891, when I beard a neighbour of mioe, Mrs Ann Mills, 40, Bread street, having been cured (after the doctors had given her up) by a medicine called Mother Bei gel's Curative Syrup. I went with my daughter to sea Mrs Mills, who told me that Seigel's Syiup had saved her life, and would do me good. I got a bottle of tbe medicine, and after taking a few doses I felt relief. I continued with the Syrup, and after taking three bottles all the pain left me, my food agreed with me and I gradually gained Btrengtb. I can now take any kind of food and never feel any distress and am as strong as ever I was. After my recovery a lady customer of mine Baid to me, ' Mrs Calap, whatever have you been takin?, for you do look so well.' 1 told her, as I tell everyone, that Seigel's Syrup has made me a new woman, and but for it I should not be alive, I wish others to know of tbe benefit I have derived from the medicine, and I give full permission to the proprietors to use this statement as they may think fit, and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true. By virtue of tho provisions of the Statutory Declaration Act, 1835 (Will. IV, c. 62." " Declared before me at Leeds this) "25th day of January, 1892. I (Signed) " (Signed) All' COOKE J.P. j JANE CALAP. "Ex Mayor <>/ Leeds" } The pub.ic may remember the account of Mrs Mills' illness and recovery, published some time ago. We are glad that Mrs Caiap beard of it and went straight to that lady herself for the information she wanted. The visit resulted just as might bave been expected. Both our good friends had suffered from the same disease, iodigestion and dyspepsia, and the remedy which cured in the first cas« was equally successful in th-it of her neighbour. No wonder Mtb Ciiap had lost all faith in physic, and is Mother Neigel's Syrup were "physic." we should not look for people to have faith in it either. But it is a remedy, not "physic" It doesn't upeet and digus^, it soothes and heals. Men fall ill, to be snre, but women bear most of the pain in this sad world, and when once acquained they and 1 Mother Seigel are ' ever ' the best of friends, 1 ' like Joe and Pifa in Dickens' Btory,