A RANCHMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS 



lecture several times, and I knew that he could not 

 keep tab on everything that he said, nor could any 

 of the quotation sharks, so I picked Henry, and for 

 my headline wrote: 



There is no higher art than that which tends towards the 

 improvement of hu?nan food. — Henry Ward Beecher. 



During the last few years, with spiritism and 

 occult stuff coming back strong among the unin- 

 formed, I have attended several seances, and had a 

 "catch-as-catch-can" with ouija, impelled by a guilty 

 conscience for this sort of "clep-to-quota" of mine; 

 though none of those whose names have been bur- 

 dened with my liberties has ever peeped. But I made 

 Beecher famous in the food advertising line. Jevne 

 of Chicago and Los Angeles lifted my poor little 

 effort, and made it a business headline, but that was 

 not the climax. When we were married my wife and 

 I chose Yellowstone Park for our bridal trip, going 

 via Omaha, and to start things off right I took her 

 into the "swellest" restaurant for dinner. She always 

 sits facing the door, to watch humanity as It pours 

 in, bonnets and all. My face was towards the rear, 

 and I looked twice before I was sure, but there, 

 emblazoned on the back wall, in free relief above 

 the orchestra stand, in letters of gold, was — 



There is no higher art than that which tends towards the 

 improvement of human food. — Henry Ward Beecher. 



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