The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-19
MRS. COOK OF BROOKLYN.
Imparts a Valuable Secret
to the Ladies.
1T rs VERY INTERESTING.
There Are Many Persons Who Can
Appreciate Her Condition Because 9
They Have Been SO Themselves.

On a recent Sunday afternoon the
writer gave interested attention to the
narration which follows. 1t is here rec
produced almost exactly in the words Of
the lady from whose lips it fell-Mr5. S.
b. Cook, of $50 Tompkins avenue, Brook
lyn, N. Y.
We three sat at the front windows OF
their home overlooking the park, as
Mrs. Cook gave this leafet out of her life,
one of her little children nesting against
her knee:
."My husband and I 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- l was
then troubled great deal with indiges-
ton and dyspepsia, 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
sleeping badly and suffering. l could
not eat any solid food. l lived on boiled
milk, taken hot, right off the stove.
That was my diet, and l got very tired
ofit; but WAS afraid to touch anything
else.
''Now to get back to the year 1898,
last year, was a long and sad one for me.
AS the warm weather came on | hoped
to get better, but l did not. The open
ing buds on the trees out there in the
park found me as weak, low and miser-
able as | had been in the winter. l was
losing flesh and strength, slowly but
surely, all the time. My nerves we're
feeble and shaken SO that my sleep was
habitually bad.
AT last. by the advice of friends 1
went to Peekskili, Were | remained for
some time, but my friends saw l was
growing thinner, and expressed the
Cpinion to one another that | was in
decline.
1.-The doctor suggested that l take cod
liver oil, but l told him l couldn't bear
the looks or the taste of il, either in its
natural state or as an emulsion. He
looked grave at this but said no more
about it. So | lay there and fingered
and sank; that is all there is to say of
the result of my trip TO the country"
Every time | went up to visit my wife"
said MIR. Cook, 81 could see she was
much thinner and more feeble than be-
fore, although she didn't like to ad-
nit it,
well" continued the lady. | "felt
that if it were physically possible l must
get home, and so. on the Sd of NOvem-
Der, they wrapped me up and brought
me home, what was left of me; und
achdt there ao0s # me aoetghed just %
pounds, 81 po'J1ads less haH I aretghcd it
aay gitthood Here L could do nothing,
happen. l 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 a bottle of pre-
food, and said a friend Of his
recommended it and hoped l would try
it, I tasted it and it tasted good. moth
ing like cod liver oil. / began taking it
according to tie directions without feel
ing the least confidence in it or indulg-
ing any hope from it. But it did have a
good effect, and that quickly. 1t gave
me an appetite.
81 could eat the old kinds of food and
they didn't distress me. Then | began
to get some strength. At the end of a
week, to my surprise and delight, I
f1und Ind gatnea tire pounds. At the
end of the second week, two more. And
SO on, gaining two pounds every week.
sit is eight weeks now, and l weigh
ia pounds. just is pounds more than
when | came home. / can eat anything,
have pain, cough, no headache,
can run up stairs like "A girl, and L know
you will Lelieve me when | say it is all
due to Paskola."
"And you think the pre- -digested food
Paskola did all this for you, MIS- Cook?"
. ertainly; if it didn't, what did?
never felt SO WELL and like living, in ten
years as | do now"
cit isn't my wife's increase in weight
llone," remarked Mr.. Cook: "but look
1t her! her strength her enjoyment of
herself her bright spirits! She had
lOne OF those Things TIL Ff5kOld gave
hem to her. If it can do as much for
'ther people, through her statement be-
ng published, why it ought to be pub
ished."
sWhat my husband says, l say" added
Mrs. Cook; anything else would be in
gratitude on my part and culpable iudif-
erence to the suffering of others"
Has this case any lesson for you? Are
,ou thin? Are you famishing for food
which the palate refuses and the stom-
ch cannot digest? Are you pale for the
want of red blood? Are you chilly be-
ause you have not flesh to feed the vital
ire? Are you weak because your food
: not assimilated? Are you slowly sink
ng like a scuttled ship? Millions are.
Abandon the use of drugs and medicines,
nd test the successful modern scien-
ific treatment Paskola is a food, and
nables the system to use all other foods.
t arrests emaciation, re-establishes nu-
rition fills up the hollow cheeks, and
ut of weakness develops power.
A pamphlet giving full particulars re-
pecting Paskola will be sent on appli-
alton to the Pre- Digested Food Co.,
D Reade St, N. y. City.
NEW TTONS