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 and an appetizing carrier of milk, that will often be relished.

While Post Toasties, double-thick corn flakes, are primarily valuable as a source of energy, still, when their 8.1 per cent of protein is supplemented by milk, they become efficient assistant builders, as well as prime energizers. They are the obvious choice for the summer and spring breakfast, to offer an appetizing variety at any season, and for the winter and autumn supper dish when a lighter cereal is wanted. They may be used to tempt the delicate appetite and for an “in-between-meals” snack, eaten dry or with fruit. They are delicious before retiring.

For adults, any time, with milk or fruit, Post Toasties are an admirable food, and their convenience often means a cereal and milk served when otherwise there might be no cereal at all. Also, Post Toasties are delectable in certain macaroons and cookies that may be substituted for undesirable sweets in the nursery menu. They may be crushed and used for crumbing cooked dishes in kitchenette homes where stale bread and the hoarding of leftovers have no place. Post Toasties, being double-thick corn flakes, stay crisp in milk or cream.

It has already been said, but it will stand saying again, that the carrying off of the body wastes, after the food has delivered up its store of nourishment, is just as important to health as putting in the supply of body fuel. Constipation is often responsible for many such conditions as headache, lassitude, irritability, coated