Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-06
COFFEE HITS HARD.
Almost KILLED a California Girl.

A young lady in California had a re-
ing. The details are most interesting
to anyone who even suspects that COT
fee is damaging to the health. She
says, Il drank coffee from a child, and
a few years ago my health began to
break down; everything l ate or drank
distressed me, and l settled into a
chronic form of dyspepsia accompa-
MED with a headache every morning,
and was very irritable most of the
time. Il could not sleep without TAX
ing a sleeping draught. While at first
the pains in my stomach were slight,
they kept growing worse until finally
the most wholesome food and drink
would cause intense agony, and a few
minutes after eating ] would have to
throw everything Up. My doctor had
been telling me for some time that
coffee was hurting me but | did not
believe it was true, for l saw many
people drink coffee and / thought l
could.
"Cf course, in this condition l could
not sustain my flesh and strength, and
/ lost in weight from 1856 pounds down
to 80 pounds, and became a perfect
skeleton, starving. to death in a land
of plenty. j was confined to my bed
and dying by inches. The doctor told
me there WAS no chance of my ever
getting well as my stomach was worn
out.
They had begun to wonder how
many more days / would live. One
r. 1.1-- GIfz-l 1o1IoI HoJ %41I hour
wonderfully she had been helped out
OF stomach trouble and headaches by
leaving off coffee and using Postum
Food Coffee and Grape-Nuts Food.
She went right to work and made me
q nice cup of Postum and prepared a
little Grape-Nuts. / dreaded the tor
ture of taking anything into my stom-
ach, but she coaxed me to take a
spoonful of Postum and of Grape-Nuts.
10 my great surprise, I found that I
did not have any pain to speak OF in
my stomach, and the food actually
stayed down.
Everyone was completely mystified.
In a little time afterward / drank
three spoonfuls of the Postum and
took a little more of the Grape-Nuts,
and that stayed down and seemed to
soothe my nerves and give me a rest
full feeling.
soon afterward the doctor came in
and my nurse told him that, for the
first time in three weeks. food had
stayed on the stomach. He could
hardly believe her as he thought death
was very near. Then he wanted to
know what i had been eating and
drinking. He took home some of the
Grape-Nuts and Postum The next
day he said there was no mystery
about it, as he had analysed the sam
pies and said he had found a pre-di-
gested food, and n that would not
hurt the stomach, and the Postum
was the most natural drink he had
ever seen. He said it did not excite
the nerves as did coffee, and that it
was nourishing and built up the sys-
tenn instead of tearing 1t down. He
had my nurse give me o Of the
Postum and Grape-Nuts and said there
was one chance in ten that my sys-
tom might be built up and my life be
saved.
SIN less than a weeks time I could
drink half a cup of Postum ait once,
and how 1t did quiet my nerves and
make me feel like l was getting some
strength.
six days after beginning Postum /
went to sleep the first time in two
months without taking a sleeping
draught. So step by step l kept on
Improving. The headaches disappear
ed. My stomach became stronger each
day, and | gained steadily in weight.
"At the end of four months felt
like a new person, and had gained
fifty pounds in weight. could sleep
we'll, eat plain food, and, all in all,
feel well and strong again.
my head is so clear that l can
think better than Il ever could l
know, and all of our friends know,
that there is not the slightest doubt
but that / would be in my grave to-day
but for Postum Food Coffee and Grape
Nuts.
you can publish this account If
you wish, but please only use M ind
tiala" Miss N. u, Se~bastopol, Calf.
Full ruame and address given to those
interested upon application to the
Postum Cereal Co, Ltd, Battle Greek,
Mich.