The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-27
What CHANCE DID


they were about when they originated !
the scheme.
They put a coupon in every pack I
age and each coupon was marked with
a letter of the alphabet. All you had
to do, for instance. was to acquire
the letters composing the word
watch" and the Yu-Shor-Ta-Likit
people straightway sent you beau
tifully chased, 18-carat, filled, guar
anteed movemented timepiece. calcu-
lated to win the admiration of all be-
holders. c, H, A, l and r would
bring you chair that would be an or.
nament to the most refined home and
a Joy to sit in. P, I, A, N and OFT
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 munificent 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 a years standing. but the piano
in her little fiat was rented one.
The coupon, too, was letttered P. For
tunate omen!
How perfectly lovely 1t 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.. Gatterley a
morning or two later, aren't you rath-
er lavish with your breakfast food?
| I'm afraid that I can't manage all
this"
TRY to eat it, darling" urged Mrs.
Gatterley. You know it's very nour-
fishing. I forget how many pounds of
beefsteak it's equal to, but quite
number
There must be enough of it here
to equal prize OK" observed Mr.. Cat
terley. However, I'll do my best"
Next day, with some diffidence he
remarked that little oatmeal might
be a pleasant change. You know"
he said, the doctors say that it isn't
good thing to take too much nour-
ishing 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 it in time"
Nothing more was said about 1t
then. BY this time Mrs. Batterley
was becoming little feverish about
those coupons. She even did violence
as to throw away the last dishful or
SO remaining in her packages, In
order to get a new one the sooner.
She justified this, or tried to, with
the excuse that it was getting little
stale. She had now acquired three
P's, two HIS, one A, two rs and an
o. Every time she went into the par.
lor she nodded her head at the piano
and said to it: Il won't be paying
rent much longer for you
Then Mr.. Gatterley openly rebeled
She had served him YouShor-Ta-Likit
with preserves and cream for lunch
and a Yu-Shor-TaL ikit pudding for
dinner. He said it was making him
so energetic that he overexerted him
self and that he was going to taper
off on beefsteak and get back to his
normal condition. I'll take 1t once
a week to oblige you, sweetness he
concluded, "but feel as il even this
delightful and nutritious fodder was
getting a triile monotonous. Let us
have something else. Why
this anxiety to fill me with sawdust
I'm not a pincushion or doll"
So Mrs. Gatterley told him all abou
:, it. At first he laughed at her, but wher
J, she showed him the progress she hat
made he became really interested
why. you only need an l and an N
don't your" he said. 81 should thinl
we ought to be able to get them. IL
diet little longer"
y The Gatterleys ate Yu-Shor-Ta-Liki
religiously for a week or ten days
They were both pretty sick of it b,
= this time, but they persevered-witl
!. no further results than a CONSECUTIVE
;. run Of C's. Then Gatterley said: "Ot
= what's the use Of eating the stun
: We don't have to eat it.
So Gatterley plunged. He bought
!. dollars worth at a time and the
n had great excitement opening tn
n packages. But. as Gatterley phased i
q they could not fill their hand.
d It was within four days of the e.
20 piration of the coupon offer that tn
fl woman who came in once a week
" scrub the fiat cleaned out the pantr,
and with it the can that held the COZ
4. pons. That was the Gatterley theor,
le The woman could not remember. An,
TX way, the coupons had disappeared
G. Gattcrly had Just brought home
r fresh consignment of packages an
" among them were the missing letter
er \ and |.
Id He lit his pipe with them.
It, A day later some one advertised ft
ID the letter \ and offered SIS for 1t.
Ut When that advertisement met h
is eye Gatterly took SS packages of Y
ne Shor-Ta-Likit out to the garbage chu
at and emptied them therein. His wi
lie stood hv and smiled through her tea