The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-06-12
AN INTERESTING STORY.
Told by Mrs. Cook, of Brook.
lyn, N. ",
And Carefully Recorded-A Page From
Real Life Which Can be Road With
Interest and is Certain to be of value.

On recent Sunday afternoon the
writer gave interested attention to tho
narration which follows. 1t is here re-
produced almost exactly in the words OF
the lady from whose lips it fell-Mrs. S.
0. Cook, of25O Tompkins avenue, Brook.
Ign, N. Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Cook and myself sat at
the front windows of their homo over
looking the park, as Mrs. Cook gave this
leafiet out OF. her life. one Of her little
children nesting against her knee.
my husband and 1 have been mar.
ried," said the lady, almost nine wears.
Before my marriage 1 was often tired,
weak, exhausted, and my strength
seemed to be passing from me. l was
then troubled great deal with indiges.
ton and dyspepsia, and sometimes
since. L would be we'll two or three
months of and on. That was the his
tory Of several years sleeping badly
and suffering. l could not eat any
solid food. l lived on boiled milk,
taken hot, right off tho stovo That
WAS my diet, and | got very tired OF it,
but was afraid TO touch anything else.
last year, was long and sad one for
me. AS the warm weather came on |
hoped to get better but did not. The
opening buds on the trees out there in
the park found me rs weak, low and
miserable as had been in the winter
l was losing flesh and strength, slowly
but surely, all the time. My nerves
were feeble and shaken so that nv
sleep was habitua ally bad
"At last, by the advice Of friends, |
went TO Peekskill, where remained
for some time but my friends saw was
growing thinner, and expressed the
opinion to one another that I WAS in a
decline.
The doctor suggested that take cod
liver oil, but / told him / couldn't bear
the looks or the taste of it, either in it's
natural state or rs an emulsion He
looked grave a. this, but said no more
about It, So l lay there and fingered
and sank; that is all there is to say of
the result OF my trip to the country"
Every time l won't up to visit nv
wife," said Mr.. Cook, II could see she
was much thinner and more feeble than
before, although she didn't like to ad-
nit it,
WELL" continued the lady, ~ felt
that ifit were physically possible must
Der, they wrapped me up and brought
me home, whatwas left of me; and what
there was OF me weighed just 9s pounds,
81 pounds less than [ weighed in nv
girlhood. Here 1 could do nothing, eat
nothing; only wait for what might hap.
pen. had tried doctors and drugs
often useful to others-but of no use to
me.
ION the next day after my return my
husband brought me bottle of pre-
digested food, and said a friend of his
recommended IL, and hoped l would try
II. l tasted 1T and it tasted good, moth.
ing like cod-liver oil. l began taking
it according to the directions without
feeling the least confidence in it or in
dulging any hope from it. But it did
have good effect, and that quickly. 1t
gave me an appetite.
II could eat the old kinds of food and
they didn't distress me. Then began
to get some strength. At the end OF
week, to my surprise and delight, I
found had gained two pounds. At the
end OF the second week, two more.
And 80 on, gaining two pounds every
week.
ut is eight weeks now, and weigh ia
pounds, just 10 pounds more than when
l came home. 1 can eat anything, have
AAO P"Ai, nv OOuBAi uO aSdudCuO, can
run up stairs like girl, and know YOU
will believe me when say it is all due
to Paskola."
And you think the pre- digested food
Paskola did all this for you, Mrs Cook?'
Certainly; if it didn't what did?
never felt so we'll and like living in ten
years rs do now"
ut isn't my wife's increase in weight
alone remarked Mr.. Cook; "but look
a. her! her strength! her enjoyment OF
herself! her bright spirits! She had
none of those thugs till Paskola gave
them to her. If it can do as much for
other people. through her statement
being published, why 1t ought to be pub
lished."
What my husband says, / say,
added MRS. Cook; anything less would
be ingratitude on my part and culpable
indifference to the suffering OF others"
Has this Gaze any lesson for you? Are
you thin? Are you furnishing for food
which tho palate refuses and tho
stomach cannot digest? Are you pale
for the want of red blood? Are you
chilly because you have not flesh to
feed the vital fire? Are you weak be
cause your food is not assimilated?
Are you slowly sinking like scuttled
ship? Millions are. Abandon the use
OF drugs and medicines, and test the
successful modern scientific treatment.
Paskola is food, and enables the sys-
tenn to use all other food. 1t arres SITS
emaciauon, re-establishes nutrition,
fills up the hollow cheeks, and out OF
weakness develops power
pamphlet giving full particulars
respecting Paskola will be sent on ap
plication to the Pre- Digested Food Com
pany, 80 Reade street, Now York City.