Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1871 — Suggestions for the Season. [ARTICLE]

Suggestions for the Season.

Thousands regard the winter as a season Of trials; and the truth is, that if there is a weak point in the system, winter is pretty sure to find it ont. Constitutional tendencies to disease are generally aggravated by damp and cold. (Rheumatism sometimes lies perdu all the summer and toll, to pounce upon Its victims in the season of cold.) As a means of fortifying the body against all the diseases which prevail most extensively in winter, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitten cannot be too urgently recommended. There would be fewer cases of the pulmonary complaints tending to consumption, if all feeble systems were invigorated during the season with a course of this inestimable vegetable tonic and alterative. Constipation, indigestion, torpidity of the liver, and a general sluggishness of the secretive organs, very generally prevail at this period of the year. To all these ailments experience (the most trustworthy of all mentors) teaches us that the Bitters is a reliable remedy. Warm clothing is a good external defence against atmospheric cold and moisture, but ’ vigorous activity in the vital organization which generates heat and delivers it to the surface, is also essential to health, and this activity is secured through the operation of the Bitters. The skin sympathizes with the stomach, and if digestion le regular and perfect, tha exterior circulation wil be brisk, and damp and cold may be encountered with comparative safety. v The connection of J. V. Farwell & Co. with the chief manufactories of Europe and America enable them to show the largest and best stock of Notions, Fancy Goods, Hosiery and Gloves in Chicago. The Three Dyspeptics. Here Is an extract from a letter received by Messrs. Drake & Co., Nov. 2, 1869: “ Three friends met one day in the latter part of last September in the rotunda of the Astor House. Your correspondent was one of the tliree. We were all suffering from the ‘national disease’—indigestion; and all agreed on one point, viz.: that nothing agreed with w. We discussed medicines. One had triea blue pills, another extract of dandelion, another almost every variety of purgatives. In fact, we had made apothecaries’ shops of our insides; but nothing had done us any good. I said I wondered if your Plantation Bittibs would help ns any. After some talk we concluded to try it, and meet again at the same place that day month, to compare notes. We did so. It was a jovial meeting, I can tell vou. We scarcely knew one another. Each had gained flesh; each reported a good appetite, sound sleep, an easy stomach and a regular habit of body. The change was marvelous. It was agreed to report the facts to you, and I was appointed to make this communication. You can publish it if you choose, and refer all skeptics for particulars to “Yours truly, “ALBERT W. SHAW,