Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-12-12
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"BULLS-HEAD" BREAKFAST.
Gives Humorist Little Wild Impulse
: to Demolish Anything
Red.

their recent trip with 'The Los An
geles Limited" Here are Richard
Henry Titles Impressions of this
breakfast as given in the Los Angeles
Examiner:
''The very fact that l have been
aske1 to write about something in Los
Angeles from the standpoint of the
"effete east" makes me believe more
than ever that Chicago is most admir-
ably situated from geographical
standpoint
while in New York month or two
ago was requested to handle Man
haitian function from the standpoint Of
the wild and woolly west
''Kipling is wrong. East and west
meet in Chicago.
when l go east from Chicago,
wear sombrero and call everybody
'pardner.'
when 1 go west from Chicago
wear Newmarket coat and white
spats and call everybody old chap
81 am westerner in New York and
an easterner in California. Great
place. Chicago.
1--WE fasteners now in Los Angeles,
including Cowles from Des Moines,
which is in Iowa, and Steele from
Kansas City, besides some 80 other
citizens of Manhattan living not more
than 1000 miles outside of the borough
of the Bronx, enjoy Los Angeles ex-.
ceedingly.
eve approve of bull head breakfasts.
1t was given out in a sylvan grove
with land-painted oranges on the trees
and a pile of leaves covered with cot
ton and labeled Chicago to make the
tourists feel perfectly at home.
But it wasn't natural. That snow
should have been painted a battleship
gray and then daubed with tar. That's
the way the beautiful snow looks in
Chicago.
"They had the bull heads down IL a
pit, where the cook said they had been
cooking for three weeks. n.
81 believe him. l believe anything
they tell me in Los Angeles. But that
cooking bull heads.
"He belongs in nice little tent away
out on the desert, where there are nice
little white sticks driven all around
like the score board in penuckle
game. and a sign over the tent
'Balmydale on the Hill; these choice
city lots in this new subdivision for
sale, cheap
"The pit in which the bull heads
were cooked was all covered over with
earth, like a new made grave.
'The cook acted as principal grave
digger and when it was decided to hold
the autopsy on the bull heads he SHOW
eled off the earth and the bull heads
came forth. They were good eating,
but, somehow, when my plate was
piled high with scrambled bull head /
lost my appetite.
That's how 1 came to swallow
nose ring and get horn stuck in my
throat
= while the eating progressed, Span
ish songs were sung. The committee
said it was bad form to eat bull head
unless accompanied with Spanish
songs and chill con carne, whatever
that is.
Il like bull head breakfasts l wish
we could have them in Chicago. We
do something in the meat industry in
Chicago and 1 couldn't see why we
shouldn't have bull head breakfasts.
But the cook said it had to be
California bull. No other kind would
do. He said the bull had to be fed on
oranges and prunes for six months be-
fore being killed and if the sun failed
to shine on him two days in succession
then the animal was unfit to be the
star performer at bulls head break
fast
$50 that knocks out a scheme l had
for supplanting pink teas on the Lake
Shore drive.
"A most genial feeling came over me
after that bull head breakfast, except
l felt wild impulse to dash madly at
a red flag that hung on tree.
Everybody seemed similarly affect
ed and the man that owned the flag
hurried to take it down.
Finally they brought us back to the
hotel. l was glad to get back without
getting into trouble.
Il came near hooking very sweet
little girl in the street. She was an
awful nice little girl, but she had red
hair.
And when 1 got almost to the hotel
there was almost greater catas-
trophe.
1T was a red automobile. We all
saw it at once and made for it with
| fierce bellows. But the chauffeur gave
yell and turned on 300 volts l think
he's still going.
Bull head breakfasts are fine. But
no one is ever going to get me inside
a packing house again"