Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-08

HuSh SommcrS. tearing down the
snowy road in his huge red automo-
bic. spied the girl a little distance
ahead OF him. He pulled the car to
standstill beside her and smiled appre-
ciatively at her rosy cheeks and her
becoming tam o shanter and sweater
jacket.
Hello. neighbOr," he cried.
Hello, Mr.. Breakfast Food Man"
| the girl replied rather grudgingly and
somewhat sarcastically.
The man grinned. though rather un-
| comfortably
II suppose" he said, that you think
It's something awful for me to be
making my money in such a prosaic
way as feeding the public ut the break
fast table. Would you think any the
better of me If my money was tied up
in railroad ard government bonds, as /
suppose your fathers estate is?"
| The girl surveyed the man critically
from heel to head while he Redeemed
under her glance.
ITS hard to tell" she replied can
didly at last. when l think CT that
awful wheatflaka that you manufac-
| ture 1t seems to obscure whatever
good qualities you may have. l see
you through falling fakes of that I'M
speakable stuff
wv heatflaka Is every bit as good as
and better than wheato"' he tiared.
And that's the only other brand on the
market that has sales anywhere nearly
as big as oursr'
At this the girl simply raised her
eyebrows. Then on second thought
she said:
we eat wheato at our breakfast ia
BILE"
She turned defiantly and started
down the road.
Wait" cried Hugh, jumping from
his machine. Don't go away like this.
You probably think of me as utterly
] impossible, but I'm hanged if I'm go
ing to let breakfast food come be-
, tween us.
. II could explain to you how wheat
tiaka is made and show you how per-
fectly pure and wholesome it is, but
: you wouldn't understand it, / might
/ tell you that we are soon going to be
gin an advertising campaign that will
: wipe wheato off the market. but you
don't understand business"
Indeed" calculated the girl.
"But you can understand this,
e Hugh rushed on. You can under
/ stand me when say love you. I've
: loved you from the moment l saw you
: and, no matter how you think of me
now, no matter what you say. I'm go
ing to make you love me and marry
y me! Just as I'm going to be success
s full in this fight against wheato, I'm
2 going to win your
81 A deep. indignant flush suffused the
2 girls face. Then she laughed mock
s ingly.
z Really, Mr.. Breakfast Food Man.
s she cried, you can't make girl mar
G ry you by the same tactics you would
s employ in a business campaign. L
9 your endeavors with wheatflaka are NJ
s mere successful than your endeavor
g will be to win me, 1t will certainly g
5 hard with YOU"
ri Naughty and stern, she stood wit
s. lverted face until Hugh, somewha
g abashed, climbed into his machine ant
81 whirled down the road.
I'll But Hugh's buoyant nature soon re
8 asserted itself. He had never We
z failed I'm anything that he had under
3 taken. Why, then, should he fail whe
z 1t came to winning wife?
6I Confident that when the time reall
& came the girl would capitulate, b
3 pigeonholed his courtship for futur
g attention and gave all his energie
8 into the prosecution Of his campaig
& against wheato.
81 For a week or more the campaig
& progressed In most satisfactory maj
g ner. Consumers and jobbers through
4 out the country responded in VOL
. derfully gratifying manner to- Hugh