THE SUPER PEANUT MAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 302, 15 May 1913, Page 6

THE SUPER PEANUT MAN.

SCIENCE APPLIED TO BUSINESS. MOTOR CAR IX NUT TRADE. Melbourne, May 3. Johannes Smith is the latest thing in peanut men. He despises the old pushcart, which has always been the badge of his trade. He has applied the scientific mind to the peanut business, and rides in state about Melbourne streets in his own motor car. Johannes took his large and friendly clientele of small boys and indulgent parents by surprise when two weeks ago lie appeared not as the perspiring, crackvoiced pusher of a go-cart, but as the proud and purposeful driver of an" up-to-date motor car. Johannes is of mixed Russian, German and French ancestry. Perhaps it took this combination to evolve the perfect peanut man. He certainly seems now to be on the high road to an unconventional success. You may laugh at his car as you see it careering about the streets, but yon can't deny, as Johannes says that it allows him to get about at a great pace, and satisfy more of the peanut appetite than he could previously provide for.. ■You may scoff at the motor as a combination of a motor brougham and an ice-cream cart—laugh at'it as mixing the dash of the ballet girl with the solidity of a steam roller; but you can't get past the fact that the Fitzroy football crowd has its half-time interval for peanuts fifteen minutes earlier than the Carlon crowd, and that the speedy motor enables Johannes to pick up the Fitzroy business, and then dash across in time for the Carlton trade.