Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1907 — A SMALL SECRET. [ARTICLE]

A SMALL SECRET.

Couldn’t Understand tho Tasto of Hla Customer*. Two men were discussing the various food products now being supplied in such variety and abundance. One, a ’grocer, said, “I frequently try a package or so of any certain article before offering it to my trade, and In that way sometimes form a different Idea than my customers have. “For Instance, I thought I would try some Postum Food Coffee, to see what reason there was for such a call for it At breakfast I didn’t like It and supper proved the same, so I naturally concluded that my taste was different from that of the customers who bought it right along. “A day or two after, I waited on a lady who was buying a 25c package and told her I couldn’t understand bow one could fancy the taste of Postum.

“‘I know just what la the matter,’ she said, ‘you put tho coffee boiler on the stove for just fifteen minutes, and ten minutes of that time it simmered, and perhaps five minutes it boiled, now if you will have it left to boll full fifteen minutes after It commences to boll, you will find a delicious Java-like beverage, rich in food value of gluten and phosphates, so choice that you will never abandon It, particularly when you see the great gain In health.’ Well, I took another trial and sure enough I joined the Postum army for good, and life seems worth living since I hate gotten rid of my old time stomach and kidney troubles.” Postum is no sort of medicine, but pure liquid food, and this, together with a relief from coffee, worked tho change. “There's a Reason."' Read “The Road to WeUvllle,” in Pkgs,