Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-19
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anu " SlAllulctC NiiC hSA fS
centers of the BRAIN" read Constance,
as she carefully opened the package of
new breakfast food. Just the thing
for Percy" Containing all the health
giving properties of the cocoa nut, in
conjunction with the fat producing
qualities of the English walnut" She
poured some of it into a saucer and
munched little of it with evident sat-
isfaction. This would be quite
change, and Percy always did like wal
nuts. 1t was just six weeks today
since she had insisted on changing their
diet, and what a saving 1t had been!
No butchers bills. Only half pound
of steak each day for Togo. If she
har her way she would make him con-
form to the new regime, but Percy was
so sure he could run away, and he
knew of lots of cats who died when
they couldn't get meat, and she didn't
want Togo to die. She felt quite in
yigorated and hungry after her ramble
through the garden, and as she taste
fully arranged the fiowes, still wet
with dew, in the big cut glass vase in
the center of the breakfast table, she
experienced glow of satisfaction. Her
little Long Island home was ordered
exactly to her liking, and her husband
was under complete control. What
more could a young wife wish?
She was musing thus when Mary en-
tered with the coffee pot and dishes
to the accompaniment of the cuckoo,
who announced from his clock in the
kitchen that o'clock was the break
fast hour in Meadow View lodge. Yes!
her household was well managed. and
punctual to the minute. She picked up
her new acquisition and handed 1T to
Mary. Here is a new food, Mary.
Nutty Grits. You may try little of
it for your lunch. 1t has been highly
ronnrornanHad NJ eminent
men," The assumption of the look of
gratitude on Mary's face was slightly
marred by suspicion as she muttered,
"Thank you, Ma'am," and she dimly
wondered If men of eminence were ever
troubled with an inward longing for
things non-vegetarian.
Constance raised the covers or each
dish and was satisfied with the assort-
ment. Rice outlets, oatmeal fricassee,
macaroni omeletsi Surely breakfast
fit for any gourmet She peeped into
the coffee pot and the issuing aroma
caused her to somewhat recoil She
turned to Mary. Ibid you make the
peanut juice according to directions,
Mary?" That worthy domestic as
sured her that she had, and suggest
ed that perhaps 1t would smell and
look a little different when the milk
had been added, although the skepti-
cal glance she cast at the little jug or
COcOdHuI Ulllh, WIliCD was hOliS OhhJ
for cream, somewhat belied her faith
in the suggestion. Constance remarked
that it would no doubt be delicious,
and dispatched Mary for Togo's break
fast, whilst she herself went to call
him in from the garden. His growing
thinness caused her some anxiety,
though when she had mentioned the
fact to Percy he had made light of
1t and attributed it to constitutional
causes and advanced the theory that
probably unrequited love had some
thing to do with 1t. The disgusted look
on Percys face as he scanned the
preparations made on his behalf
minute later might have warned her
that unrequited love is not the only Ill
that flesh is heir to, and as he crossed
to the sideboard and examined the var
ious packages of cereals with which
1t was graced his internal comments
on domestic economy might have sug-
gested a somewhat rebellious spirit.
Alfalfa giblets! Hayo! Asparagus
siftings! Puffed oats! Essence of blue
grass! Nutty rice! What a conglom-
Grafton of tommyrot! Why, it looked
like an ideal breakfast for an educated
horse. And to think that he had lived
on that truck for the past six weeks!
If 1t hadn't been for the few titbits
which he had managed to borrow sur
reptitiously from Togo, the cat, he
knew that his constitution would have
suffered. He was very fond of Con-
stance and hated to thwart her in any
way, but really she was carrying this
a little too far. He chuckled to him
self as he thought of the letter that
Clara Jones had promised to write,