St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-12
SIZE Talks Very Frankly and Earnest.
ly to the Writer.
JUST WHAT SHE SAYS.
One of the Most Serious of Condi-
tons and How Light Came
Out Of Dark ness

a responsible position in the Registered
Letter Department of the New York
Postoffice.
We three sat at the front windows of
their home overlooking the park. as
Mrs. Cook gave this leafiet out of her
life. one of her little children nesting
against her knee.
Should confirmation of our report be
desired. Mr.. Cook will respond TO any
inquiries that may lie addressed to him.
ITO make my story pIain." said the
lady. 81 shall have to go back just a
year-to January, 1888. 1t was then l
began to feel badly. There was uoth-
Ing ike what is commonly called an at
tack OF any particular disease. No, my
trouble came on very much as summer
changes into autumn. The trees were
green, now they are brown: it was like
that; no sharp symptoms, no sudden
collapse. 1t was fading and sinking
down. All women will understand what
that means.
Il felt tired. weak and exhausted. No,
1t was not from overwork or worry. The
life and strength seemed to be passing
from me, L couldn't tell why. 10 get
NP anu dONH SttiIS was iIdlu tdSh lOI
me. l became so weak that on any eX-
ertion L would almost faint away. All
my hopes of gaining strength by eating
were failures. My appetite was fitful,
and food distressed ME.
Perhaps / really ought to dale my
illness further back than last January.
l Will give you the facts, and people can
Judge for themselves.
My husband and have been married
nine years. Before my marriage | was
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, Off and on.
mat was the history OF several years
indeed, of many years. Four years ago
had serious time with that COM
paint, sleeping badly and suffering all
the symptoms that are so much written
about. l couldn't eat any solid food.
lived ON boiled milk, taken hot, right
off the stove. That was my diet, and
got very tired vi it; but was afraid to
touch anything else. l say i had years
of this soft OF thing,and possibly it may
make what am going To tell you easier
to understand, or it may not. However,
1t is part of the truth.
Now to get back to the year 1898,
last year, 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 as weak, low and miserable
as l 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
bad. During the warm nights
in june often LETT my bed and sat by
the window and looked out. When one
can't sleep almost any diversion is bet
ter than to lie in bed waiting for the
clock to let you know that another hour
has dragged by.
well, there is no need to dwell on
this part of my experience. l was run
ming down, and nothing that could be
done here in Brooklyn appeared likely
to help me. My relatives live in Peeks-
klllOn the Hudson, and to them went
early in July, taking our three children
and leaving my husband to attend to
his work in New York and to take care
of our home here.
"Peekskill lies on the hills, and, oh
how fresh the air Is! 1t was in hope of
benefit from that, and from the change
of scene, that went there. But was
destined to he disappointed. The coun-
try, even with all the beauty aud glory
OF summer upon it, was no better for
me than the city. In the midst of it all
l was the same weak aud weary woman.
The slightest cXertion tired me, and any
continued effort made ne faint. About
the first Of August L broke down alto
gether and took to my bed. When en-
tered my room little thought it would
be three long months before / should
come out of it. Yet that was my fate.
1t was dreary Imprisonment, light
ened only by what kind friends and the
best of medical attention could effect.
Now and then they got ME up to have
the bed made, and 70 rest me; but l
couldn't sit up long.
''4es. l took nOurishment, of course,
broths, soups. etc., and kept alive OIL
them; but lost flesh just the same and
got weaker-that is. if l could be any
weaker.
MY friends saw l was growing thin
Der, and expressed the opinion to one
another that l was in decline.
''lh he doctor suggested that take cod
liver oil, but told him l couldn't bear
the looks or the taste of it. either in its
natural state or as an emulsion. He
looked grave at 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 went up to visit my
wife," said Mr.. Cook, 81 could see she
was much thinner and more feeble than
before, although she didn't like to ad-
nit it,"
WELL" continued the lady, II felt
that If it were physically possible 1
must get home, and SO, on the 81 of
November. they wrapped me up and
brought me home. what was left of M !;
and what there was of ne weighed just
9S poundS,37 pounds less than weighed
in my girlhOOd. Here could do moth
ing, eat nothing; only wait for what
might happen. l had tried doctors and
drugs often useful to others-but of no
use to me.
"On the next Gay after my return my
husband brought me bottle of some
thing called Paskola, pre-digested
food, and said friend of bis recon-
mended it, and hoped l would try it. [
tasted 1t and 1t tasted good, nothing like
cod liver OIL l began taking it accord
ing to the directions without feeling the
least confidence in it or indulging any
hope from it. But it did have a good
effect, and that quickly. 1t gave NE 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 a
week, to my surprise and delight.
found l had gained TWO pounds. at the
end of the second week, two more.
And so On, gaining two pounds every
week.
'.It is eight weeks now, and 1 weigh
ia pounds, Just 16 pounds more than
when came home. can eat anything.
have no pain, no cough, no headache.
can run up stairs like girl, aud ii there
Is any more disease about me am not
aware of it."
''And you think Paskola did all this
for you, Mrs. Cook?"
Certainly; if it didn't, what did? /
have taken nothing else for over two
and l am we'll, as you can see.
never felt SO well. and like living, in
len years as do now. 1 have Just got
back from visit to my Peekskill friends
and they had no trouble to see the diff
terence"
1T isn't my wife's increase in weight
alone," remarked Mr.. Cook: 'but look
1t heri her strength her enjoyment of
herself! her bright spirits! She had