You have a very sore finger, let us say. It may be a hurt, a boil—or, worse still, that fearfully painful thing, a felon." Oh,' my! oh my! What a time you have been trying
getting hit or kn to protect that poor foger. Tt all the Simply to keep it out of harm's you more than doing " day's work; and you don't aucceed—and wouldn't, even with a dozen policemen to help you. " You are weared of.a fly threatening to light on it.
That is the principle on which Mrs. Eliza-oth Allen couldn't bear the least nolo had no sore finger, but she had what wa more sensitive—a body full of sore nerves; woak, starved, uostrung nerves. So the prattle of children, the closing of a door, the momentary roar of " waggon in the street, the clatter of dishes in the kitchen, the thousand-and-one sounds and noises that are in the air constantly—why, the smallest of them struck hor like @ blow from a club, Noisoe which ate not regarded by a well volleys of musketry to one in this condition. Millions of women know all about it, and plenty of men, too—crowds of them. You recognise them on sight—those who are subject to this affliction, Their lined foreheads, their bright ious eyes, their sull-protehing gestures and mantes-you've teen' them, Perhaps. you are one of them yourself, If x0, you'd give all your money and mortgage your future to have a stronger set of nerves, wouldn't you? Let's talk about it two minutes, first quoting the lady's letter, which is dated May 11th, 1893, and written from her home, 263, Syston Street, Leicester, "Bor many years," she says, "I suffered from indigestion and weakness. After meals Thada great pain at my chest. Every few daya I ad an attack of sick headache, and had to be constantly Iyiog down on the couch; I strained and heaved a good deal, wanton I got very weak and nervous, and and spat up a sour, nauseous fluid. As time Gould' bear the least noise, No. 11, Miller Road, Shanghai, on the 22nd of March, 1898, the wife of Wruxtas ALLANSOS, of son, At Medical Mission House, Kaiyuan, vid Newchwang, on the 6th of March the wife of D. Crataie Guay, x.3., om, Glasgow, of '8 daughter.
At Chefoo, on the 19th of March. the wife of J. R. Hanorxo, I.M. Customs Service, of
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