Sad Blessings.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 3167, 30 December 1893, Page 3

Sad Blessings.

While we write this a baby is bawling so that our nerves would be shattered after ten minutes of it, supposing that we had any nerYSB to be irritated Dy such a small matter. Who would be without children, once having known the incomparable happiness of their society. They have all your virtues and none of your vices—you can look into their eyes and see yourself as you were once so long ago—you can feel for them that affection and pride and fear so strangely mingled which only the father caa feel, and a merciful fate does not draw the veil to show you them a few yean older when they are no longer children but men and women, inheriting all your faults. Bus (the mother, and not the father, is really the houseband. The mother holds them together, gives them the first education, and if need be, the last kiss. The mother it with them in all their joys and sorrows, and just as she loves them more she in made by them to suffer more than anybody else* Alluding to children, a well-known Australian poet says, "Sad blessings that a mother craves," Ay, sad blessings at their best. As childhood is a critical time for the character, so w it a dangerous time for the bodily system. Nearly all urinary weaknesses are evidenced during childhood. Every child suffering from incontinence in urine can be cured by Warner's Safe Cure. Nine out of ten children are subjected to this troublesome •ffecion, especially at night, which is due in a great measure to weakened condition of the controlling muscles. The causes which lead to such a condition are difficult to trace. Oftentimes errors to diet or the enervating effect of of some deliberating disease may act as an exciting cause. Warner's Safe Cure acts as a strengthening agent directly upon the muscles, nerves and tissues of the affected parts, and furthermore Warner's Safe Cure will prevent and remove all forms of kidney. urinary and liver trouble. If the