p. 4 | STRONG MEN OF SMYRNA

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 15, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 50.

STRONG MEN OF SMYRNA.

The porters of Smyrna are without doubt the strongest men in the world. They carry upon their necks and shoulders loads heavy enough to crush a donkey. It is not an uncommon sight to see one of these porters carrying through the streets six or eight great trunks bound in a bundle with a long rope and balanced upon his back. These men live almost exclusively upon wheat or barley cakes and figs. A diet consisting of cereal foods, fruits, and a small seasoning of nuts, constitutes the most natural and most wholesome bill of fare for human beings. Such a dietary is conducive to long life, good digestion, light-heartedness, clearness of mind, joyous spirits, and general well-being.

The cereal products of the Battle Creek, Mich., Sanitarium Health Food Co., especially Granola and Gran-Nut, combined with Protose, or some other suitable nut product, constitute a perfect bill of fare, and have proved a godsend to thousands of persons, who, through their means, have been restored after suffering the pangs of miseries of chronic nervous exhaustion for many years.

Granola is a dainty, delicious, and nutritious cereal food, containing three times the food elements of beef. It is thoroughly cooked, and, with the addition of milk, is ready for immediate use at a cost of one cent a person a meal.

Readers of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES who will send to the Sanitarium Health Food Co., Battle Creek, Mich., the name of a grocer who does not sell Granola, will receive a free sample.