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FAINT PRAISE.

GIVES WAY TO ENTHUSIASM. A literary chap from Bradfard-on-Avou, England, had gotten into a bad way from overwork and improper food—not "realising how'much the latter liad really to do with his ill-health. "I am a literary worker," he writes. "You will then understand that 'brainfag' and I aro intimately acquainted. "Half the night I lay awake, thinking of work done in tho'-day, cr to bo done on the morrow. I have always been rather a trouble to my household in the matter of food. ■ "There's nothing I particularly like, and thero are many things I very much dislike. "I am not a meat-rater, and I detest eggs. My breakfast thus had, for a long time, resolved itself into a cup of tea, a slice of bread, and somo marmalade. "Grape-Nuts was one day suggested to me as a very excellent preface to such a repast. I scouted the idea, for I had classified Grape-Nuts among the numerous preparations of cereals which I had regarded as 'stodgy,' and had declined even in childhood. "However at last I yielded. On the first morning my praise was faint. I would only admit that there was nothing disagreeable in the taste of Grape-Nuts. But as I persevered. J grew to appreciate it, and .now take it daily. "My severe headaches aro past historv. 1 sleep soon'after I am in bed and do niit awake iill a reasonable hour next morning. lam sure Graw-Xuls will be of great benefit to the public." "There's a reason -

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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1721, 11 April 1913, Page 6

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252

FAINT PRAISE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1721, 11 April 1913, Page 6

FAINT PRAISE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1721, 11 April 1913, Page 6

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