Early in February of this year (1804) I was travelling in a third-class carriage in the neighbourhood of Glasgow. Ata station twa women entered the compartment in which I was seated. One was a girl, gaudily dressed: the other " typical working Woman. She had no hat nor bonnet, and wore a stuff Bhre was the picture of rude, robust health. petticoat, with a shawl wrapped round he The girl asked how her companion was, remarking that she bad heard she had beer, far from well.
"Deed, but I was," responded the elder woman, 'I thocht I was at deith's door."
say, what like was the matter wi' ye?"
"T cud dae nae work; if I tried to wash the floor I got siccin a heart beatin', and my stomach fair tuaned at the sight o' food. went to three doctors, one after anither, an they gae me bottles and bottles, but it didos help me ans till a frien' tellt me to try Mother, Seigel's Syrup. Wuman, in a week I was better and fin I had taken it a month I was, a' right and could eat and work well as ever."
Then they went on talking of other sub-, jects. Go where one may he is likely to, hear some good said about Mother Seigel and' what is done by her famous medicine. Sometimes it. is in.the form of a.bit of passing, talk like the one quoted above; and again it takes the shape of letters, fragrant with grati-tade for health regained. hope, many. suffering women will see it and. read it.
"In August, 1892," says the writer, began to. feel low, week, and ailing. ' My. appetite was bad and what little I ate gave me much pain at the chest. I was constantly spitting up a clear fluid like water, and I heqyed and strained a good deal. At the pit of my stomach there was a gnawing feeling, and there seemed to be a hard lum formed in my abdomen. In any case suffered much from pain in that region, "My breathing got to be very bad, and I wheezed as if the, windpipe were clogged and stopped up. I kad a hacking cough which gave me but little rest day or night, and I was troubled with night sweats. The pillow my bead had lain on would be wet in the morning.
"Tu two or three weeks after the time I was taken, I was no longer able to take solid food, or indeed food of any kind. I lived for two months on milk, lime water, brandy, andthe like. During. that time I lay helpless in bed.
"Often I would have fainting fits and had to be lifted up and supported in bed. Iwas now, 90 Weak that. my; friends, feared there was'no hope for me, and I was anointed by the priest," Thada doctor attenidiggatie but he relief. was not successful in giving me avy real "In the following November, although very il and low, I was able at times to read a little, and then it.ivas that I read one day about Mother Seigel's Syrup and the wonders it find done for others {sent fur it, and less than half a bottle made me feel better, Iliad a trifle more appetite and could cat a little and retain it. So I went on with the Syrup, and when T had used: four bottles the cough and all the other troubles left me, and soon I was well and strong as before, You are at liberty to publish my letter if you desire, for the good of others who may Suffer as I did without knowing where' to look for a cure. - (Signed): Mrs. Hoonoria Brennan, 42 Great Britain Street, Cork, March 17th, 1894."
'A good letter, a cheering letter, dated on St. Patrick's Day, too. A great thing to be rid of snakes, but a greater thing to be rid of indigestion and dyspepsia—more poisonous than any reptile that ever crawled. And that, was the dreadful ailment which gave Mrs. Brenoan three' months of suffering the ailment that the Scotch women talked of in the train; the ailment that inflicts more pain and fills up more graves than all the other ailments on earth put together.
And yet' Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup cures ithas fast as people hear of it and take it. "That's why we keep telling about, "it, and printing what everybody tells about it over and over, (2) 25jy, 1 & Sau 228
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