The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-01-29
BE CAREFUL WITH THAT LAMP

I sincerely hope that Mrs. Filmer
has abandoned the cusotm of keeping
an oil lamp burning in her room of
nights. She does not say what the ne
cessity was, but 1 trust it no longer
exists. If possible to avoid it, no light
should burn in a room wherein people
are sleeping. The reasons ought to be
plain enough, yet we all need lessons
in common caution. This lady had
hers, and was fortunate in coming out
of the affair as well as she did.
Writing about it she says: ut was
in the summer of 1856, not long after
the death of my husband. l had been
used to keeping an oil lamp burning in
my room for convenience during the
night One night l accidentally over
turned the lamp, and blaze kindled
in an instant. Terrified half out of
my wits l sprang from bed, seized the
burning articles and ran downstairs
with them just in time TO prevent fur
Their disaster Happily for me I es-
capped with slight burns, but not from
consequences of another kind.
THE fright and shock quite pros
trated me. Do what 1 would, after the
danger was all over, was unable to
Danish the subject from my thoughts.
My nerves seemed completely unhinged
and l rapidly grew feeble, exeitable,
and debilitated. My appetite failed,
and 1 had no relish for my ordinary
food. There was a bad taste in my
mouth, headache, distress after eating,
loss of flesh and ambition, with a dis
position to worry and fret over things
which, when I was well, had no in
fluence with me whatever. 1 sought to
build up my strength with beef tea and
other nutritious and digestible forms
of diet, without success.
1.-The doctors whom 1 consulted said
was suffering from nervous debility
and weakness. They gave me pre-
scriptions, which the chemist made up
for me; but they had no effect, and
what 1 suffered 1 have no words to
tell you My health appeared to have
been all broken up suddenly, as a rail-
way train goes to pieces in a collision.
Month after month / struggled with
this strange ailment, but could find no
remedy to relieve me. Not until jan
uary, 1887, did l see my way out of the
trouble which followed my adventure
of that fearful night
"At that time January, 1881 l
CHANGED TO come upon a little book
abuot Mother Seigels Syrup, as a cure
for indigestion and dyspepsia and the
complaints attending it. Letters that
were printed in that book from others
who had been cured by this remedy,
gave me confidence, and 1 got a bottle
from Mr.. ]. H. Brown, patent medicine
dealer, Is, High Street, Margate After
taking it l felt decidedly better. l
could eat and digest needed food; my
nerves were more under control and
got better sleep and rest. l will
merely add that, feeling sure that
Mother Seigel's Syrup was helping me,
continued to take it, and eventually
recovered my health. For this thank
Mother Seigel's Syrup; and if you think
so singular an experience as mine
would be OF interest or use to any one,
you may have my consent to publish
it (Signed) (Mrs.) C. L. Filmer,
Thanet Cottage, Diapers Road, Mar
gate. July oath, 1895"
Now invite the readers attention to
double fact: First las is daily shown
in these articles, that indigestion will
disorder and disease the nervous sys-
tenn; and (second) that violent shock
to the nervous system will produce in
digestion of a profound and intract-
able type. The latter fact is illustrated
by the case we are now considering.
There is no space here to treat OF it
at length. Let it suffice for the pres
ent that, either way the remedy must
be addressed to the digestion-not to
the nerves. No competent physician
treats a so-called nervous" disease
as nervous disease. He seeks for the
location of the evil force, which is com
monty the stomach; corrects that if he
| can, and leaves the nerves to right
themselves as they always do. This
is what Mother SeigeIs Syrup did for
Mrs. Filmer, and will do for you, in
case (which Providence forbid you
are ever overthrown in like manner.