Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-12
! AN INTERESTING STORY.
Told BY the Charming Mrs. Cook, Of
Brooklyn.
AND CAREFULLY RECORDED.
A Page from Real Life Which Can BE
Read With Interest and Is Certain
to Be Of Value.

On a recent Sunday afternoon tho writer
gave interested attention TO the nara
ton which follows. II is here reproduced
almost exactly in the words OF the lady
from whose lips II fell-Mrs. s. Is. Cook,
Of 80 Tompkins avenue. Brooklyn. n. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cook and myself sat at
the front windows Of their home overlook
ing the park AZ Mrs. Cook gave this
leafiet out OF her life. one OF her little
children nesting against her knee:
MY husband and have been married"
said the lady, almost nine years. Be
fore my marriage l was often tired. weak
exhausted. and my strength seemed to be
passing from me. I was then troubled
great deal with indigestion and dys-
pepsIa, 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 housekeeping
badly and suffering could not eat any
solid food. | lived on boiled milk, taken
hot. right of the stove. That was my
diet. and 7 got very tired OF IT. but was
afraid to touch anything else.
Now, 10 get back to the year 1888, last
year, was long and sad one for me. As
I the warm weather came on I hoped to get
! better. but did not. The opening buds on
the trees out there in the park found me
as weak. low, 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 ] remained for
! some time. but my friends saw ! was
| growing thipner. and expressed the opin.
| ION 70 one another that | was IN de.
cline.
THE doctor suggested that take cod
! all hrrf f,II .tfnff hag
! the looks or the taste of It. either In its
| natural state or as an emulsion. lie
looked grave at this, but said no more
sank; that II all there is to say of the
result of my trip 10 the country"
| Every time | went up 10 visit my
| wife" said Mr. Cook. II could see she
was much thinner and more feeble than
before, although she didn't like to admit
it,"
We'll" continued the lady. IL felt that
If it were physically possible. ! must get
| home. and go. 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 ~ pounds, %
pounds less than | weighed i'm my girl
| hood Here | could DO nothing eat no.
thing: only wait for what might happen.
| had tried doctors and drugs-often use
ful to others-but Of no use to me.
"on the next day after my. return my
husband brought me a bottle of pre-
digested food. and said n friend Of his
recommended II. ana hoped would try IT,
tasted II, and IL tasted good, nothing
like cOd-liyer oil ! began taking II ac-
! cordiuc TO the directions, without feeling
the least confidence in IL or INDUCING
any hope from IL. But II did have good
effect, and that quickly. 1t gave me an
appetite.
they didn't distress me. Then ] began to
I get some strength. At the end Of We +.
to my surprise and delight. found ! had
gained two pounds At the end OF the
, second week two more. And so on gam
Ing two pounds every week.
"It Is eight weeks now, and weigh ia
pounds-just sixteen pounds more lnah
, when | came home. ! can eat anything
have no pain. no cough, no headache, can
run upstairs like girl, and I know you
will believe me when say 1t IL all due
[ to PaskOla.'
+ And YOU think the pre-dlgested food
e Paskoia, did all this for you. MIS-. 12os
Certainly: If IL didn't. what did?
never felt so wen and like living In Ten
years as | do now
1T isn't my wlfe's increase IN Wtlsh'
alone" remarked Mr.. Cook; but look al
her, her strength, her enjoyment or her
self, her bright spirits She had none Of
those things till PaskOla gave them !,
/ her. II it can no a. much for ot t,,s
l. people. through her statement being pup
iished why. II ought to b. published,
What my husband says. | say adde'
1 Mrs Cook: anything less would be N
/, gratitude on nay part an9 ShipaD,e III
y difference 20 the suffering OF others A..
= Has this case any lesson Tor you aI
: YOU thin? Are you furnishing Tor 100,
: which the palate refuses and the stonacI
! cannot digest? Are you pale Tor the wan
: Of red blood? Are You chilly because yo'
have not aesh TO feed the vital fire? Ar
Won weak because your food Is not as
simulated? Are you slowly sinking lik
a scuttled ship? Millions are. Abandon
:. thu use OF drugs and medicines. and ties
l. | The successful modern scientific treatment
;: Paskola is a food, and enables the sys
, tenn TO use all other foods. IL arrest
> emaciation. re-establishes nutrition MI
up the hollow cheeks, and out OF weak
| ness develops power. , -
\ pamphlet giving full particulars n
speeding Paskola will be- sent on applica
ton TO the Pre-Digested Food Company
'' 20 Reade street, New YORK CITY.