The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-12
ANNTERESTING STORY
Told by Mrs. Cook Of
BROOKLYN.
AND CAREFULLY RECORDED
A Page From Real Life Which Can be
Read With Real Interest and ID
Certain to be Of Value.

On recent Sund az afternoon the writer
gave interested attention 10 the narration
which follows. 1t is here reproduced
almost exactly in the words Of the lady
from whose lips it fell-Mrs s. b Cook, Of
25o Tompkins avenue, Brooklyn, n. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cook and myself sat at the
front windows Of their home overlooking
the park. as Mrs. Cook gave this leaflet out
OF her life, one of her little children nest
ling against her knee:
My husband aud 1 have been married, I"
said the lady. almost nine years. Before
my marriage was often tired. weak, ex-
hausted. aud my strength seemed To be
passing from nie, / was then troubled =
great deal with indigestion and dyspepsia
and sometimes since. l would be we'll two
or three months and sick TWO or three
months. OF and on. That was the history
OF severa! housekeeping badly and suffer
Ing. l could not eat any solid food.
lived on boiled milk, taken hot, right off
The stove. That Was my diet and / got
Very tired Of it; but was afraid TO touch
anything else.
Now 10 get back to the year 1898, last
year, was long ami sad Que for HE. As
the warm weather came on / hoped to get
better, but did not. The opening buds on
The trees ont there in the park found me
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 habitusily bad.
AT last, by the ADVICE OF friends, i
went 10 Peekskiil, where / remained for
some time, but my friends saw l was
growing thinner, aud expressed the opin-
ion to one another that was in "a decline.
The doctor suggested that ] take cod
liver oil bnt tolu bir., I rnrlsirpt haar the
looks or the taste OF it, either in its
natural state or as An emulsion. He look
ed grave at this, but said no more about
1t. 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 l went up to visit my
wife," said Mr.. Cook, 81 could see she was
mucn thinner aud more feeble than be-
fore, although she didn't like to admit it,"
We'll" continued the lady, Il felt that
II 1t were physically possible l must get
home, and so, on the Sd Of November, they
wrapped me up and brought me home.
what was left of me, and what there was
OF me weighed just ninety eight pounds,
thirty seven pounds less than l weighed in
my girlhood. Here / could do nothing.
eat nothing; only wait for what might
happen. l had tried doctors aud drugs
often useful to others. hut of no use TO me.
"On the next day after my return my
husband bought me a oottle OF pre-digesJ-
Ell food. and said friend of his recon-
mended it, and bound l would try it.
tasted iC and it tasted good, nothing like
cod-liver oil. L began taking 1t according
to the directions without feeling the least
confidence III it or indulging any hope
from lt. But it did have good effect and
THAI quickly. 1t gave ME an appetite.
Il could eat the old kinds If food and
they didu't distress me. Then begsu to
get some strength. A; the end of week,
to my surprise aad delight, found had
gained two pounds. At the end of the
second week, two more. And SO Oh, gain
ing two pounds every week.
ut is eight weeks now and 1 weigh III
pounds, just is pounds more than when |
came home. L can eat anything, have no
pain, no cough, no headache. can run up
stairs like a girl, and l know you will
believe me when l say ii Is ali due to Pas
kola."
And you think the pre-digessed food
PaskOla did all this for you, Mrs. Cooki"
Certainly; If it didn't, what aid, /
never felt SO well and like living III ten
years as do now'
1T isn't my wife's increase in weight, /
alone" remarked Mr. Cook: bit look ut
her! her strength. her enjoyment OF her |
self! her bright spirits! She bad none OF
those things TIL Paskoia gave them 10 her. |
through her Statement being published, |
why it ought to be published"
What my husband says, / say" added |
Mrs. Cook, anything less would be iu- |
gratitude on my part and culpable indif- |
ference to the suffering of others"
Has this case any lesson for your Are /
you thin? Are you famisbing for food |
which the palate refuses and the stomach /
cannot digest? Are you pale for the want /
Of red blood ? Are you chilly becaus. you |
have not flesh to feed the vital fire !, Are |
you weak because your food is not sssimi
aied Are you slowly sin king like "a scut-
led shipi Millions are. Abandon the Use
If drugs and medicines, and test the sue
;essful modern scientific treatment. Pas
lola is food aud enables The system TO
Use all other foods. 1t arrests cancellation,
nutrition. fills up the hollow
.heeks, and out of weakness develops
power.
A pamphlet giving full particulars re-
pecting Paskola will be sent on applica-
ION 10 the Pre-Digested Food Company,
o Reade street. New York City.