RECREATION. 



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T3be AMERICAN HABIT. 



One in Every Three Affected, 



Of the coffee drinkers in America, it is estimated that one in three are partially disabled from 

 broken-down nervous systems. America is the greatest consumer of coffee in the world. Can you 

 draw the correct inference from these two facts ? 



Many a person will exclaim " Nonsense ! ' It is easy for any thoughtless person to jump at a 

 conclusion that a philosopher would study carefully over before reaching. Think of the members of 

 your own family ; how many of them are perfectly and completely well in every respect ? How many 

 of your friends are perfectly healthy ? Inquire of them and you will be surprised to learn that the 

 average of one in every three, who are sick, in the main, stands true. Health depends primarily, upon 

 a perfectly poised nervous organization, and the greatest known enemy to the nervous system is 

 coffee. Its active principle is caffeine, which is a pronounced nerve-destroyer. The action is 

 first, to attack the stomach, then the pneumogastric nerve which lies behind the stomach and which 

 is directly connected with the brain. 



The disordered condition passes thence from the brain to all parts of the body, and in some 

 it will show in trepidation (well-known nervous condition); in others this is hidden, but the work 

 goes on from day to day, until some day the accumulation of forces climaxes in some organic disease. 

 It may be the kidneys become affected and Bright's disease sets up, it may be weak eyes, may be 

 catarrh, stomach trouble, palpitation and heart failure (which is becoming more and more notice- 

 able among Americans). 



Somewhere, you may depend upon it, this work will show forth in the form of disease. It 

 may become so fixed and chronic that it cannot be thrown off. It is hard to induce a man or a 

 woman to give up coffee when they have become addicted to its use, but if such people can be 

 given Postum Food Coffee, they will quickly change for the better, for the food drink, when properly 

 made, has even a more beautiful color than the ordinary coffee, and has the delicious, toothsome 

 flavor of old government Java of the milder and higher-priced grades. The work of reorganization 

 begins at once, for the tearing down element of coffee has been eliminated, and in its place the 

 strong, rebuilding effects of the elements contained in the food coffee go directly to work to rebuild 

 the broken down, delicate gray matter in the nerve centres and brain. This is just plain, old- 

 fashioned common sense that any thoughtful person can make use of ; in fact, hundreds of thousands 

 of brain-workers in America have already discovered the fact; and are using Postum Food Coffee, 

 to their v«ry great benefit and relief. 



