THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2ND, 1916
DREADFUL ECZEMA
Cured by Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills. That torturing and disfiguring disease has its cause in an impure 'condition of the blood The impure condition of the blood often arises from a diseased condition of the stormach and allied organs of digestion and nutrition. When digestion is imperfect the nutrition of the body is inadequate to its needs. The blood becomes thin, poisons accumulate in it, and these poisons often manifest themselves in some eruptive disease. Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills cure diseases of the stomach, and other organs of digestion and nutrition. They eliminate poisonous substances from the blood, purifying it, and increasing its quality and richness. They get at the cause and cure perfectly diseases of the blood, and other complaints which originate in a disordered stomach.
They are perfect Blood Purifler and a positive and permanent care for Bilionean, Indigestion. Constipation, Head- Beber Sellow Complexion, Liver and Ridney Troubles.¿Pileą. Pimples, Boils, and Blatches, and for Female Ailments.
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BOUMANIAN PICTURES.
THE PEASANTRY OF A LIFTLE- KNOWN LAND,
[BY THE QUEEN OF ROUMANIA]
Queen Maria of Houmania has been indefatigable in her care for wounded soldiere, risiting daily several bospitals, and works at the Fainen. Hospital in Bukharest, where the ground-floor, con- taining the State rooms, has been turned into words, operating rooms, bandaging rooms, and bath roome,
The Queen is anxious that there should be no deficiency in the medical service in the future. In a recent statement Her Majesty said, Wo want surgeons, trained nurses, and all kinds of stores, The British Red Cross and Order of St; John have sent supplies and will revive funds,
Roamania is fruitful, of vast plains, waving corn, deep forests, rocky moun tains, and rivers turbulent in spring but sluggish in summer, of scorching uns, icy winters, and burning summers. It is a link between East and West,
Twenty-three years I have now spent
in this country. I have moved a the most humble, I have entered their cottages, naked them questions, taken their new-born in my armNS, They are poor, they are ignorant, these peasants, neglected and superstitions, but there is a grand robility in their race. They are frugal and sober; the one great dream cach mian cherishes is to possess the ground that he tills and to call it his own. The small houses have a door in the middle, a tiny window on each side, and smoke curb out of the heavily thatched roof. In the evening the women sit with their distaffs spinning on the door-steps, whilst the herds tramp home through the dust and the dors bark furiously.
The Roumanian peasant is never in a hurry. In summer the carts, in winter the sledges, move along the endless roads, slowly and resignedly. Drawn by lenn horses, the wooden sledges bump over the uneven snow; the peasant sits half-hidden amongst his stacks of wood, hay, or maize-stalks. He is as picturesque in his rough sheep-skin coat as he is in summer in his white shirt and broad felt hat. The Roumanian rond is wide, dusty, and straight, and the peasants' carts crawl along it one after another in an endless file. If night overtakes them on the way the oxen are unyoked and the carts are drawn up beside the ditch until the dawn. Roumania is not a country of violent colours. It is only the sunsets that turn all its shadowy tints into a sudden marvel of colour.
AMONG THE HILLS,
Very different are the mountain villages from those of the plain. The cottages are less miserable, less amall, the roofs are of shingle and shine like silver. Richer and moru varied are the peasants' costumes, the colours are brighter, and often a Bower-filled garden surrounds the house. Autumn is the season in which to visit the villages amongst the hills, when the trees are flaming glor Many a hearty welcome a bren given. ing in them, the peasants receiving me with flower-filled hands. Rustic riders gallop ous to meet me, scampering helter. skelter or their shaggy little horses, bear- ing banners of flowering branches,
shouting with delight. The bells ring and gaily clad women and children Bock out of the houses to strew Bowers before their Queen. The church generally stands in the middle of the village; here the Sovereigu must leave her carriage and is led to the sanctuary, where the priest receives her at the door, cross in hand. There is no awkwardness, no shyness, neither is there any pushing or crushing the Boumanian peasant remains digni- fed, he is seldom rowdy in his joy. Mostly their expression remains serious, and their children stare at one with grave faces and huge impressive eyes. There are some stranga Cristoms amongst the Bou- peasants, curious superstitions. mania being a dry country, it is lucky to arrive with rain; it means abundance, fertility, the hope of a fing harvest wealth. Sometimes the peasant women put large wooden buckets full of water before their threshold; a full vessel is a sign of good luck. They will even sprinkle water before one's feet, because water is abundance. I have seen tall. handsome girls step out to meet me with over-flowing water-jars on their heads; on my approach they stood quite still, the drops splashing over their faces so as to prove that their pitchers were full. It is lucky to meet & cart full of corn or straw coming towards one, but an empty cart is & aure sign of ill-fuck.
Many a time the inhabitants have crowded around me. kissing my hands. the hem of my drealling down to kiss my feet, and more than once have they brought me their children, who made the sign of the Cross before me.
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ECZEMA IN RASH
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Arms and Legs. Irritation Drend- ful. Restless at Night. Soothed
and Healed by Cuticura. "When my tds boy wax six months old he had a serious illness and when he got better we noticed #rash on this back which was worse In the joints of hãm semua uand I wine told it was dry The irritation was
dreadful and he would rub himself until the blood ran, He was restiem it night "and" wield. •wice up scratch- ing, and I oftened to hold his bands until he had got to sleep again
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ROOSEVELT - TO FRENCH SOLDIERS. Four French infantrymen, saya the Matin, recently sent. Mr. Roosevelt-a letter expressing their gratitude for his feelings towards France. Mr. Roosevelt replied as follows:-.
I
am delighted to receive your letter. I pay homage to the sous and daughters of France, in this hour of trial, suffering, and splendour. France is more glorious than ever before, and her Army, by its valour, its military skill, its heroic devo- tion, and its unshakable tenacity, has aroused the admiration and wonder of the whole world,
It is impossible to describe all I have
Mr. Roosevelt Bent with the letter four soen, heard, and felt. On forlorn sea- 74-10 shores I have discovered humble hamlets copies of a photograph of himself and where Turke dwelt in solitary aloofness; his four sons taken at the military school near the broad Danube I have stayed camp at Plattsburg. amongst tiny boronghs inhabited by Russian fisher-folk, whose type
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different from that of the Roumanian poorer Musulman women wear wide cotton peasant. At first sight one recognizes trousers, and over these a sort of mantie their nationality táll, fair-bearded which they hold together under the nose, giants, with blue eyes, their red shirts The shape of these mantles gives them visible from a great way off. It is that indescribable line, so agreeable to especially in the Dobrudja that these the eyes, which alone belongs to the East. different nationalities jostle together, The songs of the Roumanians are sad, Besides Roumanians, Bulgarians, Turks, their dances slow; their amusenicnte are Tartars, Russians, in places even Ger seldom boisterous, their voices rarely Tases, live peacefully side by side. Iloud On festive days they don their have been to a village in the Dobrudja gayest apparel, and crowded together in which was part Roumanian, part Russian, the dust of the road they will dance in part German, part Turkish. I went from groups or in wire circles, tirelessly, for one side to another, visiting many many an hour; but even then they are cottage, entering each church, ending my in the tiny rustic mosque hung with faded carpets, and there amongst a crowd of lowly Turks T listened to their curious service of which I ander stood paught
On a burning summer's day I came once to a tiny town almost entirely inhabited by Turke. I distributed money amongst the poor and forsaken. Excited women in strange attire called me Sultana, and wanted to tousk me; they fingered my clothes, patted me on the hack, one old hag even chucked me under the chin. They drew me with them from hat to hat, from court to court. Like a swarm of crows they jabbered and fought over me, overwhelming me with kind wishes. The (Cantinued at foul of next Columin.)
not often joyful or loud, they are solemn and dignified, seeming to take their amusement demurely, without passion, without haste. Their love songs are long complaints; the tunes they play on their flutes wail out endlessly their longing and desire that appear to remain eternally unsatisfied. Few very old houses exist; there is hardly a castle or a great monu- ment remaining from out the past. One or two strange old constructions have been preserved from those times of inva sion; square, high buildings with an open gallery round the top formed by stout, short columns, and here and there in the immense thickness of the walls tiny windows as look-outs. Primitive strong- holds, half-tower, half-peasant house, they generally stand isolated.--Times.
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The proof of Mother Seiger's Syrup is in the taking. why former sufferers, whose vitality was being mapped by Indigestion, say it is just excellent for stomach, liver and bowel troubles. Thanks to Mother Seigel's Syrup, they are now strong and well. If you are afflicted by Indigestion or other disorders of the stomach, liver, and bowels, take Mother Seigel's Syrup regularly for a few days; long enough to give it a fair chance Then note the improve- to make its beneficial influence felt "ment" in your appetite, your strength, your general condition,
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Mr. L. Milford, Hanover Street, troubles of a more serious to Maytals, Johannesburg, Trans nature. Through inability vant, wrote on March 7th, 1914-digest my food, I became so "Mother Seigel's Syrup proved weak that the least exertion so efficacious in restoring me to brought about a collapse, and bealth that, after the repeated I was entirely unstted to per- failures I had with many other pre-form my household duties. parations, it came as a pleasant Mother Seigel's Syrup, however, Burprize.
My troubles started banished all the pains and with regularity of the bowels: aches, rebulit my system, and later developing into stomach endowed me with robust health
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