The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-06-17
WHAT CHANCE DID

tho 6CQeme.
Ahey put a coupon in every pack
age and each coupon was marked with
letter of the alphabet. All YOU had
to do, for instance. was to aeouira
the letters composing the word
watch and the Yu-ShorTa.Likit
people straightway sent you a beau.
TRULY chased, 1S-carat, filled. guar.
anteed movemented timepiece, calcu.
lated to win the admiration of all be-
holders. c, H, A, and R would
bring you chair that would be an or.
nament to the most refined home and
JOY to sit in. P. l, A, N and Off
you were lucky enough to get them
made you the proud possessor of the
very best piano on the market.
Mrs. Gatterley allowed her opportu.
nifty to go unimproved for several
packages. She had an idea that the
coupons were Just for decorated china
or a silver-plated fork with every hun.
dred, but one morning she picked one
Of the little lettered slips from the ia
BILE and her curiosity being aroused,
she read the muniflcent offer to the
last word. Her curiosity became in
terest. The piano fetched her. Deco
rated china and silver-plated ware she
had in profusion, being bride Of less
than years standing, but the piano
in her little fiat was a rented one.
The coupon, too, was letttered P. For
tunate omen!
How perfectly lovely It will be-"
said little Mrs. Gatterley. I'll Just
keep it secret and surprise Harry.
Then he won't have that horrid old
piano rent to pay"
MY dear" said Mr.. GatterIey a
morning or two later, aren't you rath.
er lavish with your breakfast food ?
I'm afraid that l can't manage all
this"
TRY to eat it, darling" urged Mrs.
Gatterley. You know it's very nour-
ishing. l forget how many pounds of
beefsteak it's equal to, but quite a
number"
There must be enough of 1t here
to equal prize OK" observed Mr.. Cat.
terley. However, I'll do my best. y
Next day, with some diffidence he
remarked that a little oatmeal might
be a pleasant change you know"
he said, the doctors say that 1t isn't
a good thing to take too much nour'
fishing food" Then, as he saw the dis
appointed expression on his wife's
face, he said: well, never mind,
dear, we'll stick to Yu-Shor-Ta-Likit
Probably I'll get used to 1t in time.
Nothing more was said about II
then. BY this time Mrs. Batterley
was becoming a little feverish about
those coupons. She even did violence
to her housewifely instincts so far
as to throw away the last dishful OF
SO remaining in her packages, In
order to get new one the sooner
She Justified this, or tried to, with
the excuse that It was getting a little
stale. She had now acquired three
P's, two H's, one A, two Us and an
o. Every time she went into the par
lor she nodded her head at the piano
and said to 1t: Il won't be paying
rent much longer for you"
Then Mr.. Gatterley openly rebelled
She had served him You-Shor-Ta-Likii
with preserves and cream for lunch
and a Yu-Shor-Ta-Likit pudding fol
dinner. He said it was making him
so energetic that he overexerted him
self and that he was going to tapel
off on beefsteak and get back to hi
normal condition. I'll take 1t once
a week to oblige you, sweetness" hi
concluded, "but feel as II even thii
delightful and nutritious fodder wal
getting a trifle monotonous. Let vi
have something-anything else. VIII
this anxiety to fill me with sawdust
I'm not a pincushion or doll
So Mrs. Gatterley told him all abou
II. At first he laughed at her, but whei
she showed him the progress she hat
made he became really interested
"Why. you only need an and an n
don't your" he said. Il should thinl
we ought to be able to get them. III
diet little longer"
The Gatterleys ate Yu-Shor-Ta-LAki
f. religiously for a week or ten days
They were both pretty sick OF II Q.
this time, but they persevered-witl
no further results than CONSECUTIVE
run of C's. Then Gatterley said: "on
what's the use of eating the stun
We don't have to eat II"
So Gatterley plunged. He bought
a dollars worth at time and the
had great excitement opening IN
packages. But, as Gatterley phased Il
they could not fill their hand.
II was within four days Of the e1
piration of the coupon offer that tn
woman who came in once week I
scrub the fat cleaned out the pantry
and with it the can that held the col
pons. That was the Gatterley theor!
The woman could not remember. An!
way, the coupons had disappeared
Gatterly had just brought home
fresh consignment OF packages an
among them were the missing letters
N and /.
He lit his pipe with them.
A day later some one advertised &c
the letter n and offered SIS for It.
When that advertisement met n
eve Gatterly took 3s packages OF y
sbor.Ta-Lfkit out to the garbage chui
and emptied them therein. His VII
stood by and smiled through her teai
at him. on, =,
well dearest" she said, I'm gia
rs all over, anyway.
new 6.OOO-mile coal basin is BEN