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Sixteen-d
THE
C‘“)oasted Uorn Hlakes
(An Advertisement
FIZFI
by Elbert Hubbard
([ Blew in one fine day at Roycroft, com-
ing on the four-o’clock train, a husky
youth, six feet two, weight one hundred
sixty, aged twenty, wearing fiannel shirt,
corduroy breeches, thick-soled shoes, no
hat. He was certainly traveling light.
([ He smilingly ’made a dental display,
explained that he had no money to speak
of, but that he could work. He certainly
looked the part.
(L His complexion I
was two shades dark-
er than his hair,
which was abeautiful
tow color, bleached
by the sun.
‘(I So we gave him
the hardest job we
could find-grading
the lawn. It meant a
solo with the shovel
and a few rag-time
tunes with the wheel-
barrow. (1 The boy
could certainly work.
He set the merry vil-z’ ”,‘
lagers a pace. None
of them thought it ,' ,
in command of him- -
safe to guy him. He Ix"
was treated with re- I 1," ',. i
spect. (1 He looked p
to be ambidextrous, , ) ‘
and certainly, he was i f
‘l
self. a All the brain 7
he had, as well as r .
body, he utilized.
‘II He remained with us a month, and his
intelligence, his bodily strength, his digital
skill, his all-round ability, his quiet good.
cheer, endeared him to everybody with
whom he came in contact.
(1 He was the man we had been looking
for so long. But alas and alack l we could
not keep him. He had other work to do.
(1 And when it came time to go we bade
him a sort of tearful farewell, and he
explained that the reason he could not
stay was because he had other ambitions
already blocked out and these he had to
fulfil. (1 He spoke feelingly of his father
and his father’s regard for the Roycroft.
And then, incidentally, he produced a
bundle of letters out of his ample shirt-
bosom. (I And these letters were from
Alfred Russel Wallace.
(L I gasped a little with surprise, but
managed to put in a little white lie to the
effect I knew it all the time. But the
bluff was hardly a success.
(I We lost the young man, but we were
x better for the month
that he spent in East
Aurora. He kind of
raised the general
average of things, as
a good man does
wherever he goes.
, lIAlfredRusselWal-
lace is now in his
ninety-first year. He
has just issued aveiy
interesting book, a
sort of last word.
From it I quote one
line: f‘ To keep your
‘ii. body active and
healthy, study your
own case and then
eat the food that
agrees with you. To
keep well is not only
a duty but a privi-
lege.”
(I In way of a bal-
anced ration, there
is nothing better
than Kellogg's
. ToastedComF1akes,
alternated with Kellogg's Toasted Wheat
Biscuit.
4]. In Corn Flakes is the essence of the
020118, Soil. water and the great beautiful
out-of-doors.
GI Toasted Corn Flakes mean length of
ays, efficient work, happy resilience
and all that makes for excellence and
worth. . .
Q Meat may be a necessity and it
may not; but the less we eat of it, th6
better.
f
(I. ‘Find the balanced ration and cleave .
to it as a friend and it will be a friend of
Yours. Kel1ogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes!
April