Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1912 — Why Chicago Man Dotes on Shortcake [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Why Chicago Man Dotes on Shortcake

I have a particular reason for liking shortcake, of rather for being partial to the delicacy, and no wonder when one piece of It meant $14,000 to me. I know that statement sounds strange, but It is true, nevertheless. Three years ago, during a scurry in wheat I was advised, much against my will, tq sell out my holdings when the market looked as if it were about to cave in. I finally took my broker's advice and started for the board of trade to sell what wheat I had. As I was about ,to enter the door of the building, a friend of mine stopped me and asked me to come over to this same restaurant and have a piece of shortcake. I told him I was nervous about the market and probably had better go directly in and sell. "'Oh, the market Is steady tor 15 minutes,* he said, and I came over here. We sat around and talked for fully twenty-five or thirty minutes, and when I got back to the floor the market had taken a bull stand and was going up in leaps and bounds. I hung on until the first cent was pulled off the top and theiy fearing a bottom crash, I sold and cleared Just $14,000.

CHICAGO.— “Give me a piece of that strawberry shortcake." This was what a waitress in a restaurant near the board of trade heard several days ago—in fact, the first day that strawberry shortcake was on the menu in that particular restaurant. The man who aßked for the cake was a good customer, but one who had a regular diet and seldom If ever varied from his prescribed meal. The waitress gave the man A piece of shortcake. He smacked his lips over the luscious m berries and the rich cake crust, and, finally too full of good cheer at the reminder of what a' piece of shortcake meant to him at one time, turned to the waitress and said: “Every day that you have shortcake, you can count on me for one piece, no difference how much it costa.