The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1905-02-10

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losing his appetite for anything substan-
tial. and he Is getting weak and nutty.
Ma told me when went away with dad
that abe wanted me to try my best 10
break dad OF the breakfast-food habit.
and I promised to do II. Say, Md. II you
ever expect 10 succeed In life. you have
got 10 establish n reputation for keeping
your promises. Truth Is mighty. and
when anybody can depend upon q boy TO
DO o. he agrees his fortune ~ made. Dad
saw a new breakfast food advertised In
On eastern magazine. and. NJ the hotel
people only kept 10 or 20 minds us moek-
Ing bird food for guests. dad made me 80
out 20 the groceries and round up the
nov Kind. I brought u box TO the table
at breakfast. and dad fell over himself
70 MI his saucer. and then he offered
some 20 eight boarders that sat at Dur
table.
THE breakfast food I put up on dad
was some pulverlxed cork that I got at
Q grocery out OF a barrel Of California
grapes. II looked exactly like other
breakfast foods. but you'd q dide TO see
dad and several invalid southern col
oncis. and two women who were at the
table. pous cream OF that pulverized
cork and sprinkle sugar on Il. and try
90 get the pulycrized cork 20 soak up
the cream. hut the particles Of cork float
cd on top OF the cream and acted alive.
An old confederate colonel. who had
called dad a ~damyankec ever since We
had been there. and always acted rs
though he was on the point OF drawing n
gun. took the first mouthful and after
chewing II awhile he swallowed MS
though his throat was sore. but he got II
down. and ordered n cocktail, and looked
mad at dad. Dad noticed that the others
were having dinfculty In masticatins
the food. and NO he pitched In and ate his
food. and said II was tho finest he had
eyer tasted. but the rest of the crowd
only took a spoonful or two. and ct fruit.
After while a colonel went out, and
then all quit the table except dad and Z.
had swallowed n life preserver. and he
said to me:
Hennery. either the baths or the
climate or something has upset me, aud
I feel rs though your dad was not yery
long for this world. Before ] die I want
you to confess to me what that stun is
that I have been eating. and ! ran die In
peace!'
Il told him that he had wanted q light
breakfast. and I thought there was moth
ing quite 10 light n cork. and that he
was full clear to the muxzle with pulver-
J lied cork. and he couldn't sink n more
when no took a bath. Dad turned pale
and we went out In the once and found
that all the people who sat at our table
and ate breakfast food were In the hands
Of doctors. and dad went In the room
with them. and each had a doctor, and
how they got Il out Of them | don't know.
ss | was busy organizing a strike among
the b~eliboys. l told them they could
double their wages by striking at exactly
ten o'clock. when I'll tho boarders want
ed cocktails sent 20 their rooms.
They struck all right. and the break
fast-food people had all got pumped out,
and then II came my turn. Dad gave me
licking. the boarders kicked at me. tho
landlord ordered me out Of the house and
the ntrlking bellboys. who had their
places filled In ten minutes. chased me all
over town. and when I got hack to the
hotel dad had bought tickets to San An
tonic. because the doctors told him "a