A GIRL'S LIFE SAVED AT NEUTRAL BAY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIV, Issue 3, 14 May 1897, Page 29

A GIRL'S LIFE SAVED AT NEUTRAL BAY.

In the picturesque suburb of Neutral Bay, Sydney, resides Miss Maehford, a young lady of prepossessing appearance, who seems likely to furnish her friends and neighbours with a topic of conversation which will in all probability be discussed for some time to come. In an interview with a representative, Miss Mashford made the following interesting and surprising statement : "I am now nearly 21 years of age, and I have never been strong in my life. About the beginning of March, 1896. I began to feel worse than I ever had felt before. I had a terribly languid feeling — the least exertion made me feel tired, in addition to which I suffered excruciating pains 'rom neuralgia, which quite unfitted me for any active pursuit. My appetite was also very poor, and I had almost a dread of food. I spent a great deal of money in buying tonics, trusting that some one of them would relieve me ; but none of them did me any good. But one day, quite by accident, I heard of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People through one' of my friends, and a few days after a pamphlet was left at our house (Woodville) and on reading it I thought one case in which a permanent cure had been effected was very similar to my own, namely, bloodlessness, or what is called anaemia. I, therefore, determined to get some, and bought my first box from Mr. Medd, of the Military-road, Neutral Bay, the local chemist. I commenced taking them according to the printed directions on the wrapper." " Did this box do you any good, Miss Mashford ?" " Indeed, it did ; and I was badly in need of something to benefit me, for I must tell you that at this time I was sent up to Hornsby for a change of air, the state of my health being such as to cause my relatives and friends considerable alarm. However, this one box did me so much good that I determined to continue with them, and I sent for five more boxes, which I took." " And you now feel ever so much better ?" " Most certainly I do ; apart from how much better I feel, my aunt and others tell me my complexion has improved amazingly, and my mirror, which I occasionally look at," she naively remarked, " tells me the same story. I am now able to go about in my old style, and my health improves daily." " And you attribute all these improvements in your health and appearance to taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills ?" " Well, as I have taken no other medicine, it must be the Pills that have wrought this benefit. I shall always fully believe in them and shall recommend them to all my friends." (Signed) E. D. MASHFORD. (In subsequent conversation with Mr. Medd, the chemist of Neutral Bay, our reporter elicited that Mr. Medd knew Miss Mashfor \ well, and was rejoiced to observe the striking improvement Dr. Williams' Pink Pill had effected in her. Mr. Medd added that he had a good sale for the Pills about Neutral Bay, and that doubtless as soon as the recovery of Miss Mashford became generally known the sale would materially improve.) The facts above related are important to girls just budding into womanhood, whose condition is, to say the least, more critical than their parents imagine. The complexion is pale and waxy in appearance, troubled with heart palpitation, headaches, shortness of breath on the slightest exercise, faintness, and other distressing symptoms which invariably lead to a premature grave unless prompt steps are taken to bring about a natural condition of health. In this emergency no remedy yet discovered can supply the place of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, which build anew the blood, strengthen the nerves, and restore the glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks. They are a certain cure for all troubles peculiar to the female system, young and old. Pink Pills also cure such diseases as rheumatism, neuralgia, partial paralysis, locomotor ataxia, St. Vitus' dance, nervous headache, nervous prostration, the after effects of la grippe, influenza, and severe colds, diseases depending on humours in the blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. In the case of men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from me tal worry, overwork, or excesses of any nature. These pills are not a purgative. They are genuine only with the full name, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and are sold by chemists, and by Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Wellington, N.Z., who will forward, post paid, on receipt of stamps or post order, one box for 3s, or half-dozen for 15s 9d. They are unrivalled as a tonic for both sexes.

Mr. William Johnston, the Orange Member for one of the divisions of the city of Belfast, got a nasty fall in the House of Commons recently from the Scotch Lord Advocate. He wanted the Scotch Law Officer to sympathise with the woes of an Orange drumming party at Airdrie a short time ago, who were tried and condemned for playing the " Boyne Water " and other orthodox Protestant tunes ; but when the law officer, in an answer full of dry humour, defended the magistrates in convicting these harmless musicians on the ground that they played " Kick the Pope "and the " Protestant boys," in a district largely inhabited by Catholics, with the obvious intention of raising a disturbance, after which they refreshed their martial souls in the nearest public-house, both sides of the House roared with laughter and poor " Ballykilbeg " looked as if he devoutly wished he had not put this particular question to a hardhearted, unsympathetic Scotch lawyer.

Two Highlanders being in Glasgow for the first time were much surprised to see a water-cart wetting the street. Not seeing anything of the kind before, Tougal ran after the cart and called out to the driver : " Hey, man — hey, man, you're water !" His friend, annoyed at Tougal's want of knowledge ran after him, caught him by the arm and said rather sharply : " Tougal, man, Tougal, don't be showing your ignorance ; don't you see it's to keep the laddies off the back of the cart."