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Abner and Grandpap Unhappy

Lum and Abner · February 19, 1940 · 14 min · 2,428 words

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If coffee robs you of sleep, switch to Posten. The makers of Posten, the favorite mealtime drink in millions of American homes, present those two lovable old characters from the hill country, love and adenance. In some families, when father comes home at night, it's a signal for this sort of reception.

Hey Jackie, here comes Pop! Come on, let's get him to play a game with us. But in other families, the father's homecoming often has this effect. He's jacking pops. Come in. We better keep quiet, because he looks awful, Crouchy.

Now, you'd certainly hate to be that second father, wouldn't you? In all honesty, maybe there are times when you not only look grouchy and irritable, but actually behave that way towards your family. Perhaps it's because you don't sleep well at night.

Something causes you to toss and turn on your pillow. And it may well be that that's something is coffee nerves. For it's a fact that while many people can drink coffee without being kept awake, many others should leave it severely alone.

So if you suspect coffee robs you of sleep, switch to a postum. Oh, there's no caffeine, no stimulant, nothing in postum that could possibly keep you awake. The distinctive full-bodied postum flavor, its cheering warmth and fragrance, have made postums the favorite mealtime drink in millions of families.

And Postam is very economical too. It actually costs less than one half send a cup. So if coffee prevents you from sleeping, drink Postam instead and see if the change isn't to benefit even in a few days.

After a fair trial, say of two weeks, see if you are sleeping a whole lot better than before you switched to Postam. And now, let's see what's going on down in Pine Ridge. For friends it looks as though the Women's Protective Association, through a brilliant piece of strategy, may also win the second round of its battle with the Men's Protective Association of Pine Ridge.

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