The Archive · 1898

Comfort for the Old Folks

Suppote the wheels of time could suddenly be reversed, and we could, in sri instant, go back to the year 1814. "Why, man, you wouldn't recognise England. Yon wouldn't know bow to understand: the things around you. You would be as completely lost as on the placet Jupiter. You would find no hough you wore whisked anay and. dropped raikwaye, fo England, yo telegraphs, no running water-in the City houses, and mighty few of the houses themselves that are standing now. Between 1814 and 1894 the difference is as great ay between 1814 and 1600. Yer; and greater.

'Yer a lady who.was born in 1814 writes us the following letter. She. says: "In the early part of, 1884 I commenced to feel work and ailing. My appetite, was. bad, ind after meals Thad' an aching prin la. the chest and a most uncomfortable feeling in the stomach, My mouth tasted badly, and I spat up a sour, sickening fluid. {was much troubled with wind, belching it up frequently. It was about all I could do to get around here and there in the house. medicine said had done her a great "A woman that knew: told me of a

deal of good; she called it Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. She said it would no doubt doasmuch forme, On hearing this Isent and gots bottle from Mr. F Daniel, grocer and raper, in Linton, and began to take it. I glad to say that in a very short time I felt much better. The bad symptoms I spoken of went and soon T was as strong and hearty as I had been before the trouble came on and: can do almost d_with comfort. if by printing my on think other persons-especially Mire' Cho are advanced in life—may come to hear of the Syrup and uso it, I shall be very pleased to h (Signed) Mrs.

Lane, Linton, near 16, 1894."

do think Mra, Woollett's letter will good and so you find it printed Now there are a great many old ple in this country, some of them per-ven older than she. And they need me like Mother imo when Li Setney fe did, Thole ede stomach gives out. Old people

ments in the and bad feelings 'And when they cannot eat and digest thi food, of course they get: weak and feeble, and have to: lie' in bed: or sit in the corner, unable' to take the air and go about. for necessary exercise. Then they get to'thinking they are in tie way, and grow down. hearted and low-spirited. Besides, they-are likely to be troubled with rheumatism, which is complaint peculiarly common to old people, and cornies from a bid digestion.

fow, for cai the, ail-manta of old athing in the world 20 good as Mother Seigel's Syrup It doesn't: sicken them and tear them all to pieces as some harsh medicines do, It operates gently and thoroughly; it doesn't, make them worse before it makes them better. For indigestion, dyspepsia, rheumatism, and all the aches, patos, and discomforts of age, it is just right.

Mother Seigel, who dissevered it, knew what her elderly' friends. needed—nobody botter.

Well, we can't go back to 1814, sind we don't want to, In spite of all the growler and gamblers, we are better off where we are. In 1814 Mother Seigel's Syrup was never heard of; it didn't exist. But everybody vow it in 1894. It in one of the great and good thin, this end of the century.

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