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Show FREE FROM THOSE WORRIES Troubles of Commuter Got Little Sympathy Sym-pathy From Fellow Passenger on Train. "Some of my bulbs have rotted in the ground. Ever have that happen to you?" asked the commuter of the man who sat beside him in the train. "No, I can't say I have," replied the other. "And the bugs in my rosebushes . are a pest. Do you have any trouble of that kind?" "Not a bug on a single bush." "That's strange. Now, with my lawn, I find that only about half the grass looks healthy. The rest won't grow no matter how much I water it. But 1 suppose you know from experience what that is?" "Never had any grass trouble, either." "Great Scott, man!" exclaimed the commuter. "How do you manage to escape es-cape all these annoyances?" "Very easily, sir. I live in a hotel." ho-tel." Earmarks. Alexander Powell, war correspondent correspon-dent and lecturer, said at a tea in New York: "The English volunteer troops are splendid. You can tell by certain earmarks ear-marks where they come from. You can tell the miners of the Midlands, the mill hands of Manchester, the bookkeepers of London, the " "How do you tell them?" a young lady asked. "Well," said Mr. Powell, "it's easy enough to tell, for example, the bookkeepers. book-keepers. Every time the bookkeepers are commanded to stand at ease they try to put their rifles behind their ears." The Villain Outvillained. "I wouldn't trust him," she argued. "Neither would I," assented the other girl; "he's as treacherous aa a fountain pen." GET POWER The Supply Comes From Food. If we get power from food, why not Btrlve to get all the power we can. That Is only possible by selecting food that exactly fits the requirements of the body. "Not knowing how to select the right food to fit my needs, I suffered grlev-r grlev-r ously for a long time from stomach trouble," writes a lady from a little Western town. "It seemed as if I would never be able to find out the sort of food that was best for me. Hardly anything that 1 could eat would stay on my stomach. Every attempt gave me heart-burn and filled my stomach with gas. I got thinner thin-ner and thinner until I literally became be-came a living skeleton and In time was compelled to keep to my bed. "A few months ago I was persuaded to try Grape-Nuts food, and it had such good effect from the very beginning that I kept up Its use. I was surprised at the ease with which I digested It. It proved to be just what I needed. "All my unpleasant symptoms, the heart-burn, the inflated feeling which gave me so much pain, disappeared. My weight gradually Increased from 9S to 116 lbs., my figure rounded out, my strength came back, and I am now able to do my housework and enjoy It. Grape-Nuts did it." A ten days trial will show anyone some facts about food. Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek. Mich. Read. "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." Kvcr rend flic above lrttrrr A new one nppenr. from time to time. Thev nre cenulne, true, find full of human interent. |