The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 4, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 25 May 1911 — Page 7

(fl STORY £\] Miss Selina Lue | AND THE | Soap-Box Babies By Maria Thompson Daviess J A* Illustrations byMagnus G. Kettner Inrl * SYNOPSIS. Miss Selina Lue, spinster guardian angel of River Bluff, presides over an Impromptu day nursery for the babies of the neighborhood In the rear of her grocery. Her charges are known as "SoapBox Babies." The fact that she la aingla makes: her an object of sympathy to the mothers. One of her friends Is Miss Cynthia Rage, daughter of Widow Page. Cvnthia visits Miss Selina and learns that she has taken another “Soap-boxer” in. Alan Rent, a young artist who wishes to establish a studio in her barn. Blossom, Miss Hue’s adopted baby, and pne Cynthia is very fond of, shows ah evident preference for Alan. When Cynthia leaves, Alan hears that her mother is In danger of losing the old homestead. A Alan admires Cynthia. Selina tells how she came to locate In the place and start the haven for little ones. CHAPTER IV. The Wonderful Barn Loft. “They can’t nobody tell What a mortgage and a Golf Club will do." —Miss Selina Lue. “Nqw, Bennie, run home as quick as you can, for I know your mother Is in a hurry fer the things. Here’s the nickel head of cabbage. Put it under your arm, and take the sack of meal in your hand. See if you can’t .carry the potatoes on the other arm and the piece of bacon in your other hand. Instead of the sorghum molasses she sent for, I am going to send three-for-ten cakes of soap, fer she’s forgot to buy a bit for more’n a week, and I am sure she would rathet have It. My, what a load for a boy! Open your mouth for this ginger snap, and go careful but fast.” And Miss Selina Lue steered the heav-ily-loaded youngster down the steps and started hijn toward home. As she came up again she paused, and, resting her hands on her hips, leaned out to look far up the street. There was the shadow of anxiety on her usually unruffled brow, and she sighed as she picked Blossom out of the cracker-box and put her far back on the counter, hemming her in for safety with two brooms. “I feel like I ain’t seen Miss Cynthie fer a year,” she said, “and it has been more’n a week since she came down. The cook comes after things and fehe says the child ain’t sick, so I ain’t got no cause to worry; but I’m jest hungry to see her. Seems like She is a kind of a frosted cake — the more you git of her the more you want” “Yes, thick with frosting, and white and cold; it’s good to—look at.” remarkjed Mr. Alan as he seated himself on an upturned peck measure and reached to head Clemmie off from a pllq pf scrubbing brushes she seemed bent on chewing. "Well, I’ve got a feeling in my bones she’ll come today, and I’m going to expect her anyway. Mis’ Kinney’s bones always gives her notice of trouble, but I’ve got mine trained so they ache fer the coming of good.” Miss Selina Lue’s wisdom was an unconscious adaptation of onq of the principles of a very modern thought. Tt iwas at the lull time at eleven o’clock, when the Bluff dinners were all in the pot, and Miss Selina Lue could get a breathing spell until the afternoon rush for supper provender. .The Bluff bought supplies a meal at a time and brought the nickels and filmed in payment thereof. Miss Selina Lue had no need of a bookkeeper —shell put her money in a cracked vinegar Jug behind the counter. Nor did she ever have enough to make bank deposits, as her stock was bought on much the same principle as that on which It was sold, a little at a time and cash down. “For,” she counseled her neighbors, “having on hand, most of times means wasting, and the piece of meat oughter ,go in the pot according to what; you know you oughter have and not What you think you want. Lots of folks stomlks ain’t as greedy as they is.” Mir. Alan had come in for his dln•er a little before the time. He spent nost of his mornings down at the ferry sketching the roustabouts as they loaded the early boats; but when the wharf was deserted, he found it pleasant to come and chat with Miss Selina Lue as she prepared the simple meal he shared with her. He liked to watch the babies tumble and crawl aboiit the grocery before their noon napS, for the floor and low-lying regions of the store offered unlimited for adventure to creepers, | and it always interested him to see what they could manage in the way of exciting catastrophes. Miss Selina Lue at such times fairy radiated with good cheer and in;erest and he felt constrained to do [likewise. In fact, Miss Selina Lue Invited confidences as the sun invites

the buds In the springtime, and her views of life were sound it unusual. The non-appearance of Miss Cynthia was uppermost in her thoughts, and she seemed possessed of an inexhaustible store of admiring anecdotes of that disturbing young person. There was In his mind a sneaking suspicion —nay, a shame-faced certainty—that his own presence was the cause of her seeming neglect of Miss Selina Lue, and his conscience hurt him. Bother the girl! Why should she pass him in the lane as if he were nonexistent and manage to convey an impression of his utter obnoxiousness every time he so much as caught a glimpse of her in the distance? He was of her world and accustomed to the amenities thereof, and he was not in the way of being trodden under even a very pretty pair of “first family” feet. His pride rebelled. He was something of a “first family” himself, and was in the habit of receiving unlimited expressions of regard from the fair sex, especially those who were admitted through the sacred portals of his studio. \ And, forsooth, what had he done to 1 arouse such animosity? It really seemed an old-fashioned spell of Jealousy over his place-in the affections of Miss Selina Lue and the soap-box-ers.. He felt decidedly annoyed that anyone should presume to question his rights in the River Bluff Grocery household. Indeed, he felt entitled to call himself a soap-boxer if he chose —and —he was about to say so aloud when he was Interrupted by a glad cry from Miss Selina Lue as she hurried down the steps and waved her hand to the Inspiration of his disturbing thoughts, who was leisurely approaching from up the street, sunaounded by a group of small adwers. Bonnie Dobbs, having deposited his packages at home, was backing before her with upturned, beaming face, and Luella Kinney and Ethel Maud pressed close to her side, while her arms held young Jim Peters, carefully regardful of his youngness. She was smiling at Bennie, who held a small and very active puppy up for her to see, and Ethel Maud and Luella were joining vociferously in her admiration o| the recent Dobbs acquisition. He was about to step to the door, really excited at the sight of so much Ta bMiSjM ' -*—J i H \ “I Believe He’s Mad ’Cause We Didn’t Name the Puppy for Him—--800-Hoo.” animation, when suddenly he felt himself an alien and alone. Clemmie had crawled to the top step and was leaning out, enraptured at the uproar, and Blossom hung over her broom fence and gurgled at the glimpse she could get through the window of the highheld, squirming puppy. They had all forgotten him; he was a stranger who had no right even to look on at the triumphal return of the queen to her realm of babies and puppies, with smiling Miss Selina Lue and proud Mrs. Jim in the background. He seized his hat and sketching kit and slipped out of the back door and off to the river, sore, and determined to go dinnerless, though not exactly deciding whom he would injure by such a proceeding. Bother the girl and bother and bother the eyes that toned with the hat that toned in with her cheeks, the sky! As he disappeared behind the barn he heard Bennie’s shrill voice high up in the scale saying: “Oh, Miss Cynthie, we’ve named him for Mr. Flarity ’cause he got him for us, but the first puppy he has we are going to give It to you.” "If it’s a boy puppy you can name it for Mr. Alan, too,” chimed in Ethel Maud, with boundless enthusiasm showing in the tone of her voice and shining through the dirt on her little face. "Ain’t he just the cutest puppy?” • By this time they had arrived at the steps and were, figuratively speaking, in the hospitable arms of Miss Selina Lue, though young Jim soon occupied that position literally, as she seated herself on the steps the better to enjoy his company. She looked up at Miss Cynthia with shining eyes. “Honey," she said. “I was thinking I had got to making you out in my mind prettier than you was, but I see it was t’other way refund. Where have you kept yourself fer more’n a week?" Miss Cynthia answered her from the top step where she had settled down in affectionate embrace with Blossom, whose flower head nestled against her friend’s cheek with a contented little sigh. “I have been busy, Miss Selina Lue —and a little bit worried. I came down, hoping for a 1 comfy time with you. You—you—i always seem so busy—and—entertained these days that I—l ” “Why, Miss Cynthie, child, whatever do you mean? I ain’t never too * busy for bothers to be told to me, 1 and I always have been entertained from five o’clock, whan I un to

shake up the stove and unlock the! back door, until I put out the lamp I at night. But night or day I want to hear anything you might have to sayz “I know, you do, Miss Selina Lue» I and I wanted to come, but ” “Looks like they’s a special sort | of string tied ’twixt you and me, and fny hungering for you must have drawed you this morning. I was jest a-telling Mr. Alan—-why where did he go all of a sudden? And Bennie and Ethel Maud and Luella after him. I’ll be bound! If Blossom and Jim here could walk they would be hanging on him somewheres.” Miss Selina Lue was intent on a shifting of young Jim’s swaddling bands and failed to catch the expression on the fair face bent over Blossom’s yellow head, which was anything but acquiescent "Is Blossom then so fickle a person that she only stays with me because she hasn’t the locomotive powers to run away? Why, Miss Selina Lue, think of the affection I have—lavished, on her!” “Law, child, I was just a-running on; but I guess Blossom is like the - rest of women folks, a-follering the smiling eye of a man as far and as long as he’ll let her. What ails Ethel Maud now?” From around the barn appeared the three deserters, Bennie and Luella in the lead with Ethel Maud trailing sobbing behind. " ’Taint nothing the matter with her,” announced Bennfo with scorn. “She’s jest bawling ’causo Mr. Alan couldn’t take us up the river with him. He says he ain’t coming home till night, Miss Sellny Lue, and don’t want no dinner or nothing.” “I believe he’s mad ’cause we didn’t name the puppy for him —boo—boo—” wailed Ethel Maud, whose intuitions were most truly feminine. “He ain’t tall! Didn’t you tell him that Miss Cynthie was a-going to j name the one we’re going to give her j fer him? It was jest because you hung on his leg and cried so; I heard him say something about ‘bothering girls ’ So shut up and let’s take the puppy down and see if Mr. Leeks thinks it’s time to cut his tail off yet.” “Oh —ho—ho, Miss Seliny Lue, don’t let him cut off his tall, please! What would the poor little dead tail do without the puppy? Oh—oh —oh ” “Now, Ethel Maud, don’t cry, honey, Bennie shan’t cut off the puppy’s tail until the time comes, and then you’ll have to stand It like we all stand afflictions what has to come. Don’t you want to carry Jim across the street to his mother? Will you be right careful with him?” Ethel Maud, Instantly pacified, reached out and clutched the bundle offered her with an inarticulate, caressing murmur; Miss Cynthia gasped with remonstrance. “Don’t worry, child; Ethel Maud nurses every baby on the Bluff regular, and I seen Mis’ Peters let her tote Jim down to Spout Spring only yesterday. We Bluff folks has to trust the babies to the good Lord a heap of the time, though I must say some of the mothers seem to leave ’em on His hands more’n Is fair.” The children trooped down the street, and with a little sigh of absolute contentment the Blossom drooped her head on Miss Cynthia’s arm and closed her long, fringed lids over her wondering' baby eyes. Miss Selina Lue tenderly regarded the picture the girl and the rosy baby made in the open doorway, and said as she moved a step nearer, “Honey, what's been a-botbering you? Would it help to tell me? Is your ma worse ?” * (TO BE CONTINUED.) PAT GOES OFF THE PAYROLL Foreman’s Recital of Irishman’s Recklessness Is Interrupted and His Agitation Calmed. A works foreman of mine, who had been employed as assistant superintendent in another dynamite factory, told me the following story: . He one day intercepted an Irish laborer, who was taking a •barrel, which had been used for settling nitroglycerin, down to the soda dryhouse, with the intention of filling it With hot nitrate of soda from the drying-pans. The foreman scolded Pat roundly and told him that, should he do such a reckless thing again, be • would be instantly discharged. The foreman then went to the superintendent’s office and reported thf matter. In the meantime, Patrick, utterly ignoring the injunction, simply waited for the foreman to disappear, then proceeded to the dry-house with the barrel and began to fill it with the hot nitrate of soda. Over in the superintendent’s office the foreman had just completed his narration of the incident, when there was a thunderous report and a crash of glass. Then Pat’s booted foot landed on the office floor between ' them. The superintendent dryly remarked: “Calm your agitation Pat is already discharged!”—Hudson Maxim in Adventure. A Strange Situation. “Humor is a funny thing,” said Binks. “It ought to be,” said the philosopher. “Oh. I don’t mean that way,” said Binks. “I mean that It is a strange thing. Now, I can’t speak French; but I can always understand a French joke; and I can speak English, but I’m blest if I. can see an English joke.” “Most people are,” said the philosopher. “Are what?” said Binks. I “Blest if they can see an English I Joke,” said the philosopher. “It is a sign of an unusually keen vision.”— i I Uarnfir’o TVgxaklv-

LEADER OF INDIAN BRAHMINS COMING | < I I ; i - i : 1 I k v — J ® ® ® a si AMERICA may expect soon to receive a visit from one of the most distinguished of Orientals, Sri Paramahansa, the leader of the Brahmins of I India. He is at present in Europe on his way around the world, and creates something of a sensation wherever he appears in his picturesque costume. The holy man is very active, despite his 65 years. REAL ONION KING

Swamp Lands Make Fortune for John Stambaugh. Ohio Member of Legislature Raised Forty-six Thousand Bushels in Buckeye State on Land Thought Worthless. Columbus, Ohio.—To John Stambaugh, farmer and member of the legislature, onions spell all that is good and wholesome. Only last season he raised 46,000 bushels of them, enough to set a whole city to weeping. Way down in Texas, where they pride themselves on the size of their onion crop, John Stambaugh and his onions are known. Likewise in the recesses of Maine are the Stambaugh onions a thing of note. Stambaugh’stands for onions in all the big Ohio cities, for his products flood all markets. Ever since 1888 and long before he thought of being a legislator Mr. Stambaugh has been raising onions. There is a marsh in Hardin county which the Scioto river used to flood. When the Stambaughs moved there twentythree years ago muck covered the marsh in some places six feet deep. Horses used to sink in it and would have to be pried out. Wagons also went down, oftentimes without warning. A system of drainage was put in and the water eventually seeped away, but the marsh Is still soft and soggy and there is where John Stambaugh and others raise their onions. In the soft, yielding earth onions will grow almost without provocation. Their roots dive down into the marshy ground. Representative Stambaugh has 100 acres of such land and every season he devotes 70 acres of it to onions. There is no type of onion in the category that he has not raised at one time

FISH CONVEYORS OF LEPROSY New Orleans Doctor Outlines Experiments Which He Has Made With the Bacciil. Chicago.—Fish and oysters were accused of being conveyors of leprosy by Dr. M. Couret of New Orleans in his address before the national convention of the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists. It was because of this, he said, that inhabitants of Norway and Sweden had suffered so extensively from leprosy, as well as the fish-eating peoples of Italy and Greece. He outlined experiments he had made with leprosy baccili in fish, In which the germs had flourished in both cold and temperate waters. IS SELF-SUPPORTING AT 79 Mother of Eight Dying Children Splits He?’ Own Wood and Is Strong anc| Robust. Forest Grove, Ore. —Mrs. Sarah Crowther of this city, who has just celebrated her seventy-ninth birthday anniversary, has eight living children, two daughters and six sons, and has ten grandsons living in this city. Mrs. Crowther, who has been a widow for ten years, spent her girlhood in Westmoreland, England, where she was born, and then came to America, locating at New Orleans, where she lived three years. She then moved to St. Louis and came to Forest Grove with her husband and children 21 years ago. She is strong and robust and lives alone. She splits her own wood ahd is practically self-supporting. ~

& or another. Even with the natural environment favorable he coaxes his product to grow through artificial means. The 70 acres have been scientifically drained so that too much dampness will not interfere, and all through the season he nurses his crop. Last season everything .was favorable to growing the best crop the 70 acres ever produced. Even Mr. Stambaugh was surprised when his onions began to grow recklessly. When the crop was finally harvested the result was 46,000 bushels. “It’s just natural onion land,” says Mr. Stajnbaugh In explaining his onion prodigy. “Onions cannot help growing there when you plant them.” The “onion” king” smiles in relating how he Invades even the Texas market Down in Texas they irrigate to raise onions. Sometimes they have to spend thousands of dollars to irrigate a few acres. It is this cost of irrigation that permits the Ohlq onion to compete with the Texas onion on the latter’s own ground. Up In Hardin county the Scioto river gratuitously does what the Texans spend tens of thousands in coaxing the Rio Grande and artesian wells to do. Mr. Stambaugh talks of his onion exploits only in whispers. He will not tell just how much he made on that bumper crop last season, but some estimate that the profits amounted to more than $15,000. Spur for Lazy Husbands. Sacramento, Cal. —Lazy husbands will find California a hard place to ply their vocation as a result of the signing of a bill by Governor Johnson. The bill provides, that in case of conviction of a husband of failure to provide for his family he shall be put to work on the county roads %r some other public works and the county shall pay $1.50 a day to the wife and babies for each day the nonprovider works.

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Less Than 25 Feet Deep and 500 Chicagoans Eat There Daily—No Chairs or Tables. Chicago.—Chicago has a restaurant, just a hop, step and jump outside the downtown loop, which occupies a space only twelve feet across the front and less than twenty-five feet in depth. Into that small area are crowded kitchen, dining room, cashier’s stand and all. In this restaurant are served an average of 500 meals a day. Seating room is afforded for only twelve patrons at a time, but the place is open night and day and some one can be found eating there at almost any period within the 24 hours. There are no chairs or tables. There is a counter of two sections, running at right angles with each other, and there are 12 hard wooden stools. The employes at work in the place include a chef, a dishwasher, a waiter and a cashier. The latter, however, does not limit himself to performing the ordinary duties of a cashier; in moments of special rush he enlists as a waiter. The dishwasher performs the office of porter In his spare moments. The chef is also first and second cook. To enter this “hole In the wall” requires going down a step or two from the sidewalk and pushing through a doorway just wide enough to admit a person of average, girth. Immediately to thp right of the door Is a cashier’s stand, and a small glass case containing three or four brands of cigars. In front of the stand is a narrow passage between the two sections -of the,

FIND AZTEC RELICS: t ' I Gold Molds Buried in Mexico Are J Unearthed. i One of Most Remarkable Discoveries II in Archaeology and Ethnology of j Prehistoric Tribes Mabe Re- ' cently Near Atzcapotzalco. 4 City of Mexico, Mex.—One of the most remarkable discoveries in the i archaeology and ethnology of the pre- ( historic tribes of Mexico was made recently when a complete goldsmith’s ( outfit, primitive, yet much used, was dug up from the gravel bed of a small stream near Atzcapotzalco. Found near the site on which were unearthed ’ numbers of finely carved idols, molds from which clay artifects were made, and a complete factory for pottery, this last discovery leads to the belief that there was once a flourishing city of the Aztecs or of some other ancient Indian race on the land now occupied by the suburb of Atzcapob zalco. This latest find, which is now in the possession of Prof. William Niven, in this city, consists of a furnace, retort and the long clay tube of the blower, the leather portion of which had, of course, long since rotted away. All these article have metamorphosed from clay Into stone, so many years had they lain underground. All are in perfect condition, and easily recognizable, even yet some of the crude ore being found clinging to the sides of the pan of the furnace. They were buried about fourteen feet beneath the surface, practically the same depth at which the relics previously referred to were found some days ago. With the remains of the furnace and retort were found a number of molds, evidently for silver and gold. With each mold was a small image, apparently a pattern of the particular ornament which the mold was designed to reproduce. In every instance, these small patterns, hone more than three or four Inches in height, consisted of the image of a man or a man’s head, wearing the particular ornament which was to be made. One set of patterns is for a headdress. The largest pattern is for the great double feather which the chiefs of the time were accustomed to wear just over the forehead, while there are patterns for earrings, noserings, hair ornaments and a fillet of beautiful construction, with which to bind up the hair. Among the hair ornaments are designs of the fleur delis, the first time such a pattern has been found among any of the Indian tribes of the new world, according to fessor Niven, who is making an extensive study of the collection. Among the most interesting patterns discovered is one for a huge breast plate, evidently of silver. This is rectangular In shape, 18 by 12 Inches, with a large number of places for the inset of precious stones. This is considered one of the finest artifects found, and shows a high stage of art in its making. Wrist bands, thick and wide, and made for the wrists of powerful men, also appear in the molds, the interiors of which show that the resultant gold and silver castings must have had elegant decorations plentifully scattered .over their surfaces. It is commonly understood that the gold and silver used by these Indian artisans came from the district of Zacatula in Guerrero, being carried on the backs of traders, from the far mining district, but Professor Niven believes, from the abundance and size of these molds, that the two metals must have been secured In greater quantity nearer to the home of the goldsmith. This opens an interesting field of search for the ancient gold and silver mines of the valley or the nearby mountains.

■ counter. The side section runs along very close to the wall—a man of more than average avoirdupois could not be seated with any comfort upon one of the stools. Leaving just enough room for the waiter to pass back and forth behind the counter, there is a tier of shelves, on which, in plain sight of the patrons, are arranged practically all the various articles of food named on the “menu” which do not require cooking. Behind this and extending to the apposite side wall, partly boxed up from the view of customers, is the kingdom of the dishwasher. The rear portion, a strip about four feet wide, is the chef’s domain. It is partly kitchen and partly refrigerator. One corner is boxed off afi an ice box, and therein are kept the meats and everything else which possibly might spoil off of ice. Most of the kitchen utensils are displayed to the patrons as they sit on the stools. About half the cooking is done In sight of the customers. Plant 33,000,000 Fish. Duluth, Minn.—The United States fish hatchery in Duluth will put out 8,000,000 trout fry this spring. There are also 15,000,000 wall-eyed pike and 10,000,000 whitefish fry to be planted. Os the trout fry there are 7,200,000 lake, 400,000 speckled and 400,000 salmon, steel heads and grayling. It is said the whitefish is being diminished to a large extent In Lake Superior. It la hoped by liberal planting of fry to avoid extinction.

“All Run Down” Describes the condition of thousands of men and women who need only to purify and enrich their blood. They feel tired *ll the time. Every task, every responsibility, has become hard to them, because they have not strength to do nor_ power to endure. If yw are one of these all-run-down people or are at all debilitated take Hood’s Sarsaparilla It purifies and enriches the blood, and builds up the whole system. Get it today in usual liquid form or chocolated tablets called Sarsatabs. Consistent. Doctor —You are considerably under weight, sir. What have you been doing? Patient —Nothing. But I’m a retired grocer, doc. —Puck. Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and Bure remedy for Infants and children, and see that it

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In Use For Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoriai His Wurst. The German proprietor of a Brooklyn delicatessen store has got far enough along to pun in English. A writer in the New York Sun reports the fact x Hanging in the window of the little shop is this advertisement: “The Best You Can Do Is Buy Our Wurst.” —Youth’s Companion. < Fine Scheme. Wife—Please match this piece of silk for me before you come home. Husband —At the counter where the sweet little blonde works? The one with the soulful eyes and— Wise —No. You’re too tired to shop for me when your day’s work Is done, dear. On second thought I won’t bother you. Many a girl would promise to marry a man If she thought he wouldn’t be so silly as to expect her to live up to her promise. “Kicking the Bucket." When we speak facetiously of some one for whom we have no reverence as having "kicked the bucket” we employ a phrase that would seem to be a piece of latter-day slang, but, as a matter of fact, it dates back to old England, when, about the year 1725, one Bolsover hung himself to a beam while standing on the bottom of • bucket and then kicked the bucket away. Although at first used only In cases of suicide, It has been applied in the course of years to any death, without distinction. GREATLY ATTACHED TO IT Husband Who Had “Married Money" Acknowledged the Truth to His Friend’s Query. Apropos Os a beautiful young wife, worth $40;000,000, who had Just divorced her penniless husband in order to marry again, Henry E. Dixey, the comedian, said at a dinner in New York: “The young man who marries for money has none too easy a time of IL His rich wife is likely to tire of him and throw him out In a few years, or else she is likely to limit his allowance to 25 or 50 cents a day. “‘I married money,’ a man once said to me. “ 'Wasn’t there a woman attached to it?’ I asked. “ ’Yes, you bet there was,’ he exploded. ’So much attached to it that she never parted with a penny.’" FEED YOUNG GIRLS Must Have Right Food While Growing. Great care should be taken at the critical period when the young girl is Just merging into womanhood that the diet shall contain that which is upbuilding and nothing harmful. At that age the structure is being formed and if formed of a healthy, sturdy character, health and happiness . will follow; on the other hand unhealthy cells may be built in and a sick condition slowly supervene which, if not checked, may ripen irtto a t chronic condition and cause life-long suffering. < » A young lady says: “Coffee began to have such an effect on my stomach a few years ago that I finally quit Using it It brought on headaches, pains in my muscles, and nervousness. T tried to use tea in its stead, but found its effects oven worse than those I suffered from coffee. Then for a long time I drank milk at my meads, but at last it palled on me. A friend came to the rescue with the suggestion that I try Postum. “I did so, only to find at first that I didn’t fancy it But I had heard of so many persons who had been benefited by its use that I persevered, and when I had it made right—according to directions on the package*—l found Lt grateful in flavour and soothing and strengthening to my stomach. I can find no words to express my Seeling of what I owe to Postum! “In every respect it has worked a wonderful improvement—the headaches, nervousness, the pains tn my side and back, all the distressing symptoms yielded to the magic power of Postum. My brain seems also to share in the betterment of my physical condition; it seems keener, more alert and brighter. I am, in short, in better health now than for a long while before, and I am sure I owe It to the use of your Postum.” "Name given by- Postum Company, Battle Creek, Mich. “There’s a reason*” Ever read the’ above letters —A one appears -from time to tlipe.. They are genuine, true, and full of human Interest.