The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-05-19
MRS. COOK OF BROOKLYN.
lmparts a Valuable Secret to
the Ladies.
1T IS VERY INTERESTING
There Are Many Persons Who Can
Appreciate Her Co ondltion Be-
cause They Have Been So
The selves.

On a recent Sunday aftsrnoon the writer
gave interested attention to the narration
which follows 1t is hereby produced al
most exactly in the words of tho lady from
whose lips it fell-Mrs. S. b. Cook. OF $50
Tompkins avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
We three sat at the front windows of
their home overlooking the park, as Mrs.
Cook gave this leafiet ont of her life. one
of her little children nesting against her
knee.
'My husband aud have been mar
ried," said the lady, "almost nine years.
Before my marriage l was often tired,
weak, exhausted. and my strength seemed
to be passing from me. was then trou bled
great deal with indigestion and dyspep-
sia, and sometimes since. | would be well
two or three months and sick two or three
months off and on. That was the history
OF several years-sleepiug badly and suf-
ferinG. l could not eat any solid food. l
lived on boiled milk, taken hot, right OF
the stove. That was my diet and | got
very tired Of it; but l was afraid to touch
anything else.
snow to get back to the year 1893 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
az weak and miserable as | had been in
the winter. was losing flesh and strength
slowly but surely, all the time. My nerves
were feeble and shaken so that my sleep
was habitually bad
"At last, by the advice OF friends, went
to Peekskill, where l remained for some
time, but my friends saw | was growing
thinner, and expires sed the opinion to one
another that was IN Il decline
"The doctor suggested that take cod
liver oil, hut told him | couldn't bear the
looks or taste Of It, either in its natural
state or rs an emulsion. He looked grave
at this and said no more about II. So lay
there and fingered and sank; that is all
there is 70 say Of the result OF my trip to
the country
Every time went up to visit my wife, :"
said Mr.. Cook. 81 could see she was much
thinner and more feeble than before al
though she didn't like to admit it."
"Well," continued the lady. ~ felt that
II it were physically possible must get
home and so, on the 81 Of November they
wrapped me up and brought me home,
what was left Of me. and what there was
Of me weighed just gS pounds, 81 po uuds
less than weighed in my girlhood. Here
could do nothing, eat nothing: only
wait for what might happen. had tired
doctors and drngs-ofteu useful to others
but Of NO use TO me.
ION the next day after my return my
husband brought me a bottle of pre-di-
gested food, and said u friend OF his rec
ommeuded 1t ana hoped would try ii.
ra4 ~ aud aI cool 1flg a
cod liver oil. began taking it according
10 the directions without feeling th- least
confidence in 1t or iudulging any hope
from IT. But u did have a good effect,
and that quickly. II gave me an appe-
tite.
Il could ca, the old kinds Of food aud
they didn't distress me- Then / began 70
get some strength. At the end OF o week,
TO my surprise and delight | found had
gained two pounds At the end Of the
second week, two more. And so or, gain
iug two pounds every week.
1t is eight weeks now, and | weigh he'd
ia pounds, just l6 pounds more than
when | came home can eat anything,
have no pain, no cough, no headache, eau
run up stairs like girl and know you
will believe me when say 1t is all due to
Paskolan
And you think the pre-digested food
Pasko did all this for you Mrs Cooky'
certainly; If it didn't, what did; /
never felt so well, and like living, in ten
years as do now
1T isn't my wife's increase in weight
alone, remarked Mr.. Cook; "but LOOK at
her her strength her enjoyment OF her
self her bright spirits! She had one OF
those. things till PaskolG gave them TO her.
II IL can do as T3uch for other people,
through her statement being published,
why 1t ought to be published
What my husband says, ! sny," added
Mrs. Cook; anything lees would be in
gratitude'on my part aud culpable iudif.
ference to the suffering Of others
Has this case any lesson for your Are
you thini Are you famishing for food
which the palate refuses and the stomach
cannot digesti Are you pale for the want
Of red blood, Are you chilly because you
have not flesh TO feed the vital firef Are
you weak because your food is not aasim-
ilatedi Are you slowly sinking like a
scutt led shipi Millions are. Abandon the
use OF drugs and medicines, and test the
successful modern scientific treatment.
Paskola is a food and enables the system
10 use all other foods Ii arrest. emacia-
too. re-establishes nutrition, Ills up the
hollow cheeks, and out Of weakness devel.
ops power.
pamphlet giving full particulars re-
specting Paskola will b. sent on applica.
tion 70 the Pre-DIgested Food Co, 80
Reade ST., n. Y. City.