| A bouquet of ice cream and a flower sandwich: Charles E. Menches's girlfriend made the best of his gifts.
Charles ran an ice cream stand at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. When his girlfriend came by for a visit, he handed her a the most beautiful flowers—and some ice cream, of course, in sandwich form. To savor the ice cream now and still have the flowers to savor later, she took the top off the sandwich, wrapped it, and put the flowers in the cone that had formed.
"Hmm...", Charles E. Menches figured, "...if this cone can hold the flowers, it could hold the ice cream, too!"
The ice cream cone was invented. If not in this way then in another. Now, where have the flowers gone? Ah, there... wrapped in subject, signature, sender and such:
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