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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 24, 13 June 1901, Page 28

She Naturally Thought So < Mrs. Hicken says she supposes the doctor knew what was the matter with Lizzie. Maybe he did, and maybe he didn't. Now let me have your ear for quarter of a minute, an thouerh you were a telephone, while I talk a suggestive truth into it. Read any big medical book, intelligently and honestly written, and you will be astonished to find what a lot of diseases therein described are said to be " of unknown origin.'" Therefore, the doctor might not have understood what ailed Lizzie Hicken, and no blame to him. As it was, he worked away at the symptoms (the outside presentments, you know) and trusted to luck for results. And he might have struck it right, but he did not, unfortunately ; and it came to pass what Mrs. Hicken is going to tell us about. It was in 1896 that the young girl began to suffer terribly with pains which, as she put it, " ran right through " her, particularly across the stomach and under the shoulder olades. A continuance of this so prostrated her that she would sometimes be laid up for a month or six weeks. We fancied it was rheumatism, yet it did not act quite like that complaint. " She was also greatly troubled with a nasty cough that completely took the power out of her. I called upon the doctor with my daughter, and told him how she had been handled ; and I suppose he knew what was the matter with her, but, at all events, I am certain his medicines did her no good. " Then I bought her al sorts of cough medicines, but they had no more effect than if she had used bo muoh water. " By this time the poor girl could neither eat nor sleep .and you may be sure we were in great worriment and perplexity to know what to do. " However, I saw one of the Mother Seigel's Syrup advertisement, and sent to the chemist for a bottle, and before she finished it I could see she was better. So we kept on giving her this remedy until she was completely cured. " I have used the syrup myself for indigestion, and it cured, after I had worn out a deal of other medicines to no purpose. " I want to say, so strongly that there can be no doubt of my meaning, that the entire credit for Lizzie's recovery is due to Mother Seigel's Syrup, and also for my own. "We both swear by it, and are seldom without a bottle in the honse. I commend it to everybody." — Mrs. J. Hicken, Graham street, Auburn, N.S.VV. Nov. 27th, 1899. TAKE NOTE ! ! I^HE old proverb says : A stitch in time saves nine ; or, to put another con* struction on the words : A shilling in time saves pounds. The words are indeed true, and yet what a number of people do we find letting pounds and pounds worth of musio and books go to wreck and ruin when the expenditure of a few shillings in binding would prevent this sad waste and give them volumes handsome to look upon and a pleasure to handle in place of a lot of tattered and torn leaves. Be warned in time and send your music, etc., for binding to ALEX SLIGO, Practical Bookbinder, Stationes, News Agent, Etc., 42 George Street, Dunedin. JAMES SHAND AND CO., Wine and Spibit Mebchantb and General Importers. Offloes : 209 Hereford Street. Bond and Warehouse : Oxford Terraoe. CHRISTCHURCH. N.Z.