The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-04-04
READ ABOUT This LADY
Ind The Confidential Secret That Sh}
(hs3rfuIg lmpaits,
IT IS VERY INTERESTING.
There Are Many Persons Who Can
Appreciate Her Condition Be-
cause They Have Been so
Themselves.

On a recent Sunday afternoon the
writer gave Interested attention to the
narration which follows. It Is here
produced almost exatcly in the words
OF the lady from whose lips it fell
Mrs S. B, Cook. of 250 Tompkins ave-
nue.. Brooklyn, N. Y. Her husband,
Mr.. s. 3 Cook. has for many years
held u responsible position ia the Re-
gistersd Letter Department of the New
York Postoffics.
We three sat at the front window OF
their home overlooking the park, as
MrI. Cook gave this lsaflet out Of her
life one OF her little children nsstling
against her knee ...
My husband and have been mar
rled, said the lady, almost nine years.
Before my marriage was often tired.
weak. exhausted, and my strength
. emed to Do paising from me. was
then great deal with indigestion and
dyspepsia, and sometimes since. |
would bs well two or three months and
sick two or three months, off and on.
That was the history Of several years
sleeping badly aud suffering. lcould
not eat any solid food. lived on boil
ed milk. taken hot, right off the stove
That was my diet. aud got very tired
of IT, but / was afraid TO take any thing
els..
Now to get back to the year 1898
last year. was a long and ay done 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 ns as weak, low and
miserable rs 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 habituslly bad.
"At last. by the advice Of friends |
went to Psskskill where | remained
for some time tut my friends saw |
was growing thinner. and expressed
the opinion to one another that WAS
in u decline
The doctor suggested that | take
cod liver OIL but | told him | couldn't
bear the looks or the taste Of it, either
IN Its nStural state or as an emulaion.
He looked grave at this but SAID no
more about it. So l lay there and lin
gersd and sank: that 10 all there is to
say OF the result of my trip to the couu.
try"
Every time went up to visit my
wife, said Mr.. Cook, Il could see she
was much thinner and more feeble than
before, although she didn't liks to ad-
nit it,"
Well" continued the lady, II felt
that If it were physically pos,ibls l
must get home, and 50, on the 3 OF
November, they wrapped me up and
brought me homs. what was left of me,
and what there was OF me weighed lust
80 pounds.37 pounds les, than I weigh
ed in my girlhood, Here l could do
nothing. eat nothing; only wait for
what might happen. l had tried doc
tors and drugs-ot;en useful to Others
but OF no use to me"
"Oa the next day after my return
my husband brough. me bottle of pre-
digssted fool, and said frisnd OF mis-
had recommended it and hoped 7 would
try it. | tasted it and it tasted good,
nothing like cod liver oil. / began tax.
ing it according to directions without
feeling the least confidence in it or in
dulging any hope from it. But it did
have a good effect. and that quickly.
1t gave me an appetite,
II could eat the old kind of food and
they didn't distress me- Then bega.
to get some strength. At the end of
week, to my surprise and delight, l
found l had gained two pounds. At
the end of the second week, two more.
And so on, gaining two pounds every
week.
1T is eight weeks now, and l weigh
ia pounds, Just 16 pound, more than
did when came home. can eat ANY,
thing, have no pain, no cough, no head
ache, can run up stairs liko girl, aud
| know you will believe me when say
it is all due to Paskola."
And you think the prs-digssted food
Paskola did all this for you, Mrs Cook2'
Certainly, if it didn't what did?' +
never felt 80 wall, and like living, iu
ten years as l do now"
ut isn't my wife's increase in weight
alone" remarked Mr.. Cook: "but look
at her her strength her enjoyment of
herself her bright spirits She had
none of those things til Paskola gave
them to her. If it can do as much for
other p.ople, through her statement
being published, why it ought to be
published"
"What my husband aays, I say" add.
ed Mrs. Cook; anything less would be
lneratitude on my part and culpable
indifference to the suffering Of others"
Has this case any lesson for you? Are
you thin? Are you furnishing for food
which the palate refuses and the stoln-
nch cannot digestl Are You pale from
want of red blood? Are you CHILLY be-
cause you have not flesh to feed the
vital tireH Are you weak because your
food is not assiinilatsdjBre you slowly
sinking like Il scuttlsd ship2 Millions
are. Abandon tho use OF drugs and
medicine', and test the successful mod.
ern scientific treatment. Paskola is n
food, and enables tbs system to use ali
othe food. 1t arrests emaciatior, re e
establisher nutrition, fills op the mol
low cheeks, and out Of weakness de-
velops power. ....,
A pamphlet giving full particulars
respecting Paskola will o. sent on appli.
cation to thu Pre- Digestei Food Co.
30 Reade st. N, Y. City.