The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1906-07-12
CARAWAY'S CASE.

good fuel than 10 will on bad ana it
would seem as though the sane Dropo-
si:ion ought TO hold true Of that men
tai boiler, the human brain. Ii doesn't
though, or not always. anyway. as was
illustrated by the case Of my iriond
Stephen Caraway.
~Caraway was a right down clever
chap. his business being writing things
for newspapers and magazines and
that sort OF thing. and he surely did
turn out some very good stutf, and then
again he write stuff that was what
you newspaper fellows call rot. But
on the whole his stuff was pretty gooc
and improving all the time. and Stsph-
en- did this on a diet OF blue milk ana
sawdust for breakfast and 30-cent
table d'hOtes for dinner.
For stephen didn't get an everlast-
ing big price for what ne did write
and he couldn't afford any better He
was. in fact. poor and he had 70 pinch
along the best he could. treatiag him
self 70 a square meal occasionally, but
for the most part grinding out hts stuf
on sawdust and table d'hOtes. ami with
you, good as a rule. and improving
Steve always had an idea that be
could do better If he had better Things
to eat. better brain fuel He'd get up
from his skinny breakfast and smoke
a stCgy and look over the paper and
then he'd sit down and begin grinding
And sometimes the mill would turn
out stuff that in his heart pleased
Stephen very much suppose that
every man knows and rejoices in his
own good work--and then sometimes
he would think to himself:
If / can turn out such stuff as this
on blue milk and sawdust and stogies
how would my fancies flow if l could
have for breakfast rich milk from ar
Alderney COW and fragrant butter
and fresh rolls, and maybe a nice
broiled chop or two OF a nutritious
steak and fresh eggs and delightful
coffee and then the paper and a fine
Havana?
But he couldn't have 'em; nc had
10 keep plugging as he was. and even
on that diet he kept improving IN MS
output and began to earn little more
money, and he got so that sometimes
instead of going 10 the 30-cent table
d'hote he could go TO place where
they sold really good roast beef cut
from a rib roast and not from the
lignumyitae part of the animal He
was getting on. progressing. when
About four years ago a great uncle
of Stephens died in Westphalia. Ger
many, and left Stephen a fortune, n
really big bunch of money, and Broth
er Caraway was provided at las: with
amply sufficient means to supply him
self with fuel of the sort that he
thought would generate the greatest
amount of steam in his mental boiler
stephen was always very fond of
nature. II sort of uplifted him and
made him think great thoughts and all
that, and SO when he got his money
he stopped grinding out things long
enough TO buy him a place in the
country, and a nice place 1t was.
where you could see the sky and the
feeting clouds and the trees ahd the
hills. 1t was, in short, place wnere
nature was at home and Stephen en-
joyed it all enormously, AMI then
when he got everything nicely set
tied he thought it was about time to
resume work with his ideal fuel.
Somehow it didn't produce the ex-
pected results. He would come out
on the yeranda after as good a break
fast as any man could desire-It was
summer when he opened up this place
in the country-and sit down ana look
around, and it certainly was beautiful.
and soothing, very soothing, but not
stimulating; at least, not TO Stephen.
He would go up 10 his study and sit
down to write at window that looked
out on the blue sky and things, and
and he'd get pretty good start, and
then the first thing you know his ideas
would run of into the ground or
more probably up into the air, and
wasn't feeling just like work that
morning, and he'd go out and lake a
| ride around the country.
ITO condense things somewhat now,
stephen had just what he wanted TO
eat, and he travelled, and comruned
with nature, and enjoyed everything
:
immensely, including every breath he
drew, for about two years, and then he
began TO worry.
The fuel hadn't worked well. In
all that time he hadn't done anything
to amount TO anything, and now he
began to worry; which was al the
worse for Stephen, because be was
naturally of a chronic cheerfulness of
temperament.
he never was much of a inaacier.
Stephen, and he had all his eggs in one
basket, or you might say car, and his
car load OF eggs was caught one day
in financial wreck and busted TO the
last egg.
stephen has been back at work
now about two years, and he's doing.
better than ever; output larger and
prices higher. He is still living most
ly OIL blue milk and sawdust and 30
cent table d'hOtes. but he has already
got so that he can go now to the place
where they sell the real beef az least
oftener than he did before, and he is
really getting on.
Il don't think he's been hurt at ali
by that brief experience with high
power brain foods; in fact, ! tainl
that his brain has been enriched nv,
that experience; and should say tha.
l.