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. GRANNY/GORTON'S BIRTHDAY.
.Saturday, 'January 21st, was a great day
in Central Village, in tli« S'a e of C m
necticut, in America. On th.fc day Mrs.
Jonathan Gorton was - 100 -years old and
formally received her friends, of whom
hundreds were present. She wore her
best black silk gown, with a rose in the
bodice. The venerable lady, was seated
in a comfortable armcnair on a platform
in the' best room of her house. Then the
train' of callers filed through, each and all
shaking hands- with, her. " Granny Gor
ton," as she is called,- is a trim little body
and very nimble on ber feet. ' There was
never anything ailed her, she says, and,
except that her eyesight isn't quite so
good as it used to be, she is as active S3
any woman of 50.
Why has Granny Gorton lived so long
Why is she so active now 1 7 She lets out
the secret herself when she says, "There
was never anything ailed me." That's it
and all of it. '
People who live 100 years are not so
very rare. The deaths of 45 such were
reported last year in England— 22 men
and 23 women. Yet compared to the
multitudes who die, these are nothing-
nothing. Can we not keep things from
ailing ns, and so live as long as Mrs.
Gorton 1 Yes, if wo will take the trouble
to do it ! Men and women 100 years old
still vigorous and clear-headed, should be
a sight so common as not to be remarked
and will be yet in the future. Why not
so now 1 "Ask yourself ihe question,"
as the boatmen say down on Deal beach.
Here's lio v it is; A woman's tale.
oue o'tya aim mu in wnen U gtri or ftnout
15. She. lost her appetite, had paiti3 in
the sides and chest, frequent headaches,
and was often obliged to lie down on the
conch and rest. All tht3 didn't promise
long life, did it 1 No ; it was a bad start.
Well, she got worse instead of better.
She was often took, eomitod liar food, and
spitting up a sour fluid. For five years
she went 011 this way. This brings us to
Dttltalantt 1 CCl CK.. I—
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as parlor-maicl at Leamington, Hastings,
Warwickshire. Hero she suffered from
constant sickness, retching, and heart
burn. The chest pains were so bad as to
bend her to a double. No position that
she could take relieved her. "Her stomach
was so tender and sore that everything
she ate pained and distressed her. For
months and mouths she only took liquid
food — milk and beaten eggs, and so on.
She got weaker and weaker every day.
so she says. Of course ; how else could it
be ? A doctor at Rugby told her she had
" ulceration or the chest," which she
didn't at all. What is " ulceration of the
chest ?"
He gave her medicines and -idvice, hut
she grew no better 011 that acc -uut. This
young lady was now about 20 years old,
with a poor outlook for ever being much
oi ler. She didn't expect it, nor did her
friends. Then another dnefcnv lv Itwr on 1 1
sul'ed, sai I " ulceration of the chest,"
like his m-dical brother at Rugby. Both
wrong.
" After six months' medical treatment,"
sbe saj's, " I gave up my situation aud
returned to my home at Buxton Lamas,
Norf ilk This was in June, 1882. Then
I was taken so bad I had to take to my
bed. My mother thought I was in a
decline."
Now, the word decline" means con
sumption, as wc all know; a disoise
coin nou in England and incurable every
where. Thousands of bright girls and
young men "decline" into their graves
every year in this populous island." Sad
enough it is to see.
Well, at this point her good and wise
mother interfered in her dau liter's case.
She gave the doctors the go-by and sent
to Norwich for some buttles of Mother
Seigol's Curative Syrup. In two weeks
the y mng patient began to feel better,
Hi id in f-.hrAn mnnr.he qIig ifflt 1 iiaiv oihia.
, w o " uw"
tion aud went to work.
"Since then, fifteen years ago," she
says, "I have kept in better health than
over before in my life, thanks to SeigA's
Syru.i. Yours truly (Signed), (Mrs.)
Sarau Eleanor Baker, 8, King's Street,
Church Road Tottenham, near Loudon,
September 30th, 1892."
A dozen words more and we're done.
Mrs. B11I ter's ailment was indigestion and
dyspepsia, nothing else and qui e enough.
fcl4V,t WifcS lllli.it 111 111(1'. I oil or
the inner coating of the stomach, a symp-
torn of the disease. We wish her a louo-
and happy life, aud merely add that if all
her sex cculd avoid or cure this one trouble
most of them might live to be as old as
Granny Gorton.
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