The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-01-21

days. but six months on that food alone
and we do not hesitate to say from ou,
long knowledge of the sustaining powe,
Of the food that man at the end oi
sixty days would be Of practically tn.
same weight a. when he started, 1T he be
. man Of normal weight.
We VIII suppose that from his worl
he lost . pound . day and made up q
pound each day from food. II that prem.
days time would make sixty pounds OF
tissue to replace what had been lost, and
this would be done on Grape-Nuts and
milk with half the number Of calories OF
butter. upon which NO one can sustain
life.
Therefore. We have reason to believe
that our contention IL right that con-
centrated food like Grape Nuts, which
1. partly digested and ready for easy a.
simil.tion BY the body. presents, more
sorb than many other 1oTns q food. I .aa nd
We win further say that in cases Of diges.
tive troubles where meat. white bread
and oats cannot be dieested, that Grape
Nuts and milk contain more nourish-
ment that the system will absorb than
many pounds OF these other foods.
Distortion No. 3 charges that our tes-
timonials were practically all paid for
and rewritten in Battle Creek.
:, These testimonials were demanded by
the opposing lawyers. Naturally this
demand wa: refused, for they are held in
and are not to be delivered up on demand
OF enemies.
Testimony at the trial brought out the
fact that We never printed q single testi-
monial that We did not have the genuine
letter back of. Many. Of these letters
came spontaneously. A record was kept
Of twelve hundred and four (l204) let
tiers received In ono month from people
recovered their health or been benefited
by following our suggestions on food
and beverages.
On three or four occasions in the past
ten or twelve years we printed broadcast
in papers offers Of prizes to users of
Postum and Grape-Nuts,- hundred
81 90 prizes. one hundred 800, twenty
of $500 and five of $1,000 each,-.tnting
that each must be an honest letter with
name and address. We agreed not to pub
lish names. but to furnish. them to en-
very generally answered those who wrote
to them. and verified the truth of the
Under. this agreement not to publish
from doctors. We kept our word and
neither printed their names or surren-
dered the letters.
Right here notice an Limitation spasm"
The weekly" says: Post got those testi-
by advertising for them. In New
York he used for that purpose the New
York Magazine of whose editor
il now in the Federal Penitentiary for
fraudulent use of the mails. For exam
pie, Post announced in that magazine in
1907. etc." (then follows our prize COM
petition).
We used nearly all Of the paper. and
magazines in New York. and the rest q
America, but the sensational writer gives
tho impression to his readers that the |
only magazine we used was one whose |
editor is now in the Federal Penitentiary,"
ETC.. something that we know nothing |
Il the truth of now. and never did.
Space was bought in the magazine spoken |
Il on q business basis for the reason that |
I went to good class Of readers. The
Incident seems to have furnished an op-
for a designing writer to de-
.eive his readers.
We look upon honest human testimony