The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-06-15
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Tho proprietors of that particular
breakfast food certainly knew what
they were about when they originated
the scheme.
They put a coupon in every pack
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-Pa-Likit
people straightway sent you a beau
tifully chased, 1S-carat, filled, guar
anteed movemented timepiece, calcu-
lated to win the admiration of all be-
holders. C, II, A, and r would
bring you q chair that would be an or
nament to the most refined home ana
a joy to sit in. p, |, A, N and OIL
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 tho
coupons wero just for decorated CHINA
or silver-plated fork with every hun
dred. but one morning she picked ono
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
forest. The piano fetched her. Deco
rated china and silver-plated ware she
had in profusion, being a bride or less
than a years standing, but the piano
in her little fiat was a rented one.
The coupon, too, was letttered P. Fop-
tunate omen!
How perfectly lovely it will be-
said little Mrs. Gatterley. "fll just
keep it a secret and surprise Harry
Then he won't have that horrid old
piano rent to pay"
MY dear" said Mr.. Gatterley
morning or two later, aren't you rath.
or 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. | forget how many pounds Of
bcefsteak it's equal to, but quite a
number"
There must be enough of it here
to equal prize OK" observed Mr. Cat
terley. However, I'll do my best. B"
Next day, with some dif1idence he
remarked that little oatmeal might
be q pleasant change. you know,
he said, "the doctors say that it ism t
a 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 W
Nothing more was said about it
then. BY this time Mrs. Batterley
was becoming a little feverish about
those coupons. She even did violence
to her housewifcly instincts so far
as to throw away the last dishful or
so remaining in her packages, in
order to get q 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
Ps, two H's, one A, two Us and an
o. Every time she went into the par
Tor 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 rebelieu.
She had served him You-Shor-Ta-Likit
with preserves and cream for lunch
and a Yu-Shor-Ta-Likit 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'm take it once
a week to oblige you, sweetness he
concluded, "but | feel as If even this
delightful and nutritious fodder was
getting a triie monotonous. Let us
have something anything else. Why
this anxiety to fill me with sawdust
I'm not a pincushion or doll"
So Mrs. Gatterley told him all about
it. At first he laughed at her, but when
she showed him the progress she had
made he became really interested
why. you only need an | and an n
don't you?" he said Il should think
we ought to be able to get them. I'll
diet little longer"
The Gatterleys ate Yu-Shor-Ta-Likit
religiously for week or ten days
They were both pretty sick of it by
this time, but they persevered-with
no further results than a consecutive
run of C's. Then Gatterley said; "Oh
what's the use of eating the stuff
We don't have to- eat il"
So Gatterley plunged. He bought II
a dollars worth at a time and they
had great excitement opening the
packages. But, as Gatterley phased it
they could not fill their hand.
Il was within four days Of the ex
piration of the coupon offer that the
woman who came In once a week &c
scrub the fiat cleaned out the pantry
and with it the can that held the cou
pons. That was the Gatterley theory
The woman could not remember. Any
way, the coupons had disappeared
Gatterly had just brought home b
fresh consignment of packages and
among them were the missing letters
N and |.
He lit his pipe with them.
A day later some one advertised foI