The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-17
HARRINGTON DouGHNUT FAC

TORY. | Booth Tarkington, the Indiana novel, | ist, is in the courts, all on account oi doughnuts. Harrington is the owner of a lot in Indianapolis which he has recently leased to one Dougherty, who has set up thereon doughnut factory with Tarkingtons consent and mate rial assistance. He has put in two ovens for the making of doughnuts which are within few feet of a neigh bor's house. The neghbor promptly complained of them as a nuisance, but Harrington replied that Dougherty's g doughnuts were excellent ones; that doughnuts are a necessity, and hence that doughnuts must be made some where. Not content with this ethical satisfaction and not being able to con- vince Tarlsington that doughnut ovens within five feet of one's house are a nuisance, the neighbor has brought suit against "The Gentleman from Indiana" and his tenant Dougherty, for s2010 damges.
 As to the merits of the case or it's possible issue there will be little curios- ity. nor is it essential to inquire too
 
 ticular doughnuts. If the case should go against Tarkington he can easily pay the damages and get his dough- nuts elsewhere, and as to the merits of his doughnuts, they are probably just as good and digestible as the ordinary doughnuts, which is not saying much. There is another feature of the situa- tion which is much more interesting.
 The Tarkington doughnut factory throws flood of light upon the prolific results of authorship in Indiana. If is we'll known that there is subtle but none the less unmistakable connection between certain forms of food and literary production which grows out of the deep sympathy between the stom- ach and the brain. Boston, for in- stance, was made the literary center by beans, showing that leguminous food is the highest stimulus of the intellect Many have been inclined to give cod fish the chief place, but experience shows that the fish ball, instead of de- Velopins culture, tends to develop con- ceit pigheadedness and pharisaism, as is shown in the case of the "aunties" who live almost exclusively upon fish balls and the New England salt fish dinner. The stimulus for the intellect in Portland is red herring, in Philadel- phia scrappe, in New Orleans praw- lins, in San Francisco crayfish, in Mill waukee the winerWurst and the schnit- gel, in St. Louis sauerkraut Each To- caity has its own food which is essen- Lial to intellectual development.
 It has not been known until now, with reference to Indiana upon what neat doth this our Caesar feed that he hath grown so great" Indiana has nore authors than any other half doze States, They are numerous enough to nave banquets and hold congresses and | conventions. The book which they pro- | luce each year if put together would | each from here to Kingdom come" There has been great curiosity to know | what has caused this phenom anal | 1oosier activity, and the secret is now | ut II is doughnuts, not handmade 1 loughnuts, but factory doughnuts. not 1 Ioughnuts fried in a skillet but some low prepared in an oven. But will the fleet be healthy? Will they produce Literature as belns have done? 'he doughnut when made by hand in he most careful and exact manner is n indigestible compound. What must he factory doughnut be? How long