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Vault Entrance.

The iron door in the center leads to one of four large brick and steel vaults, containing letter files, advertising copy, electrotypes, records, books, valuable papers, etc., all pertaining to Grape-Nuts and Postum business. There are many costly oil paintings hung in various parts of the offices.

provided always that the element of Diastase, which is up under the hull of wheat and barley, is there to help along. (That is left out in white flour.)

Now let us see how Grape-Nuts food is pre-digested, absolutely without chemicals or any outside ingredients.

First, the Barley is soaked about 100 hours. Then it goes to a warm floor, and the moisture and warmth develop the Diastase, sprout the berries of barley and turn the starchy inside into sugar. You see how exactly like the processes going on in the human body, to produce the same result. Then this barley (after the sprouts are removed) is ground, and the flour

In the Bookkeeping Department.

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