The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-25


NOTE-The series Of which this article
- the first Will appear weekly relating the
experiences of Peck's bad Boy and his
pad on tour including various cities
,1a, r'iS Stilted states and Europe. The old
T va mad had an operation for appendicitis
W ME conValescing he conceived the idea
that the doctors had left some kind Of an
instrument in him when they seWed him
up up me Bad Boy" explained it like
Dad has been reading in tine papers
ABOUT doctors that perform operations
IeaNlng sponges, forceps and things inside
OF parents when they close up the place,
ana since dad has got prcUty fussy since
MS operation he thinks they lett some
thlng IN him. Some days ne thinks they
left a roll of cotton batting or = pillow
or a bale OF hay. but wnen there is a
sharp pain inside he thinks they left a
carving knife, but for week he mas set
tied down 70 the belief that the doctors
ieIt monkey wrench in him anG he is
Just daffy on that subject. Says he can
1eel II turning round. as though II was
mls-Screwing machinery, and he wants
10 consult a new doctor every day as TO
what he can take to dissolve the monkey
wrench so it will pass off through the
blood and the pores of the skin He has
taken II into his head that nothing will
save his life except to travel all over the
country and the world. and / have got
20 20 with him to look after dim The
doctor thinks ne needs excitement. and !
shall do what i can to let him have it
They went first to hot Springs and San
Antonio, the narrative beginning with the
following letter from the last named city:
tCAN ANTONIO. Texas.-My Dear
y Chum: Dad and left Hot
Springs because the man who
kept the hotel got prejudiced against
me. / suppose I did carry the thing a
little too far. You see. dad has got
into fbfe L Tod
has got himself so worked UP over the
bran mash that he is losing his appe-
tite for anything substantial. and he
Is getting weak and nutty. Ma told me
when | went away with dad that she
wanted me to try my best to break da1
OF the breakfast food habit, and
promised to do il. Say. kid, if you ever
expect to succeed in life. you have got
TO establish A reputation for keeping
your promises. Truth is mighty. and
when anybody can depend upon a boy
TO do as he agrees his fortune is made
Dad saw new breakfast food adver-
tised in an eastern magazine. and. as
the hotel people only kept thirty or
forty kinds Of hooking bird food for
guests, dad made me go out to the gro
Ceries and round up the new kind.
brought a box TO the table at breakfast
anu uao lei over hlmSet to fill his
saucer. and then he offered some to
eight boarders that sat at our table
DAD had been Dragging for a week
about how he had adopted the break
fast food fad. first for his health and
then to get even with the beef trust.
lie had convinced the boarders at our
table that it was the patriotic duty of
every citizen TO shut down on eatins
meat until the criminal meat trust was
! uined
The breakfast food I put up on dad
was some Pulrerized cork that got at
a grocery out of a barrel of California
grapes. it looked exactly like other
breakfast foods but you'd a dide to see
dad and several invalid southern colo