RECREATION. 



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UNCLE SAM'S 



HEAVY LOAD 



U S.USES 800 MILLION POUNDS OF COFFEE EVERY YEAR— OVER 

 10 LBS. PER CAPITA (see report International Coffee Commission, 1902. 



COFFEE CONTAINS .008 OF CAFFEIN (M. Payen's analysis, accepted as 

 standard). 



12 GRAINS OF CAFFEIN IS A FATAL DOSE (medical authorities). 

 A GRAIN IS^OF A POUND, AVOIRDUPOIS (Webster's Dictionary). 



Let's figure it out. In 10 pounds of 

 coffee there are r f - pounds or 560 grains of 

 caffein. Divided by 12 this equals more 

 than 46 fatal doses of this deadly drug. 



In other words, every man, woman 



and child (average) in the United States 



consumes little by little in one year enough 



of the poisonous alkaloid, caffein, 



to kill 46 people. 



As the coffee drinker takes it 

 in small doses and diluted, this caf- 

 fein does not kill outright. But it 

 is easy to believe medical science 

 when it tells us that coffee sets up all 

 kinds of diseases. Science says coffee 

 directly attacks the vital organs, causes 

 derangement of the heart, kidney troubles, 

 ruins the coating of the stomach, and sets up 

 all kinds of mental and nervous ails. 



Many physicians now absolutely prohibit 

 patients drinking tea or coffee, on account of 

 the deadly drugs that these drinks contain. But 

 most coffee drinkers are such slaves to the habit that 

 for every one who stops coffee there are ten who 

 drink it on the sly. They think they cannot break 

 away. 



It is for these that science invented Postum Cof- 

 fee. You can quit instantly and never miss it after a 

 day or so, if you will drink Postum in its place. Give 

 Postum a chance and it will certainly knock 

 down those diseases which coffee has set up. And 

 all the while it is curing these it is nourishing 

 and strengthening and building up muscular 

 tissue and nerve matter. It is making red 

 blood. 



If health and happiness and a smoothly 



running mind and body are of any account 



to you, take on Postum for ten days in 



place of coffee, and see the result. Postum 



is a scientific food-drink made from 



health-giving grains, heavy with food 



value and delicious in taste and aroma, 



when properly made. 



