Show i I 1 grady Brady grac Says lo for Buckwheat Flapjacks Better J Than Best Birthday Cake Brady MD M.D. William I w 61 red letter da day nor ais a is n no o but I hope all ho holiday liday ho read this column who gds ds i I help me r i I I com com- o r by f L y just s as asas hatless r y- y yas tJ y as you ou y l sing sing- and g. g the rain raID 1 L sleet fleet or orI 1 I fec el stan scan I I Dr Brady k Veil well ell any- any you like just to show thees the es that the weather has J r 1 r to do o with the C R I or g j 5 Lids kids I just in ca case c you were I l g of presenting me ai a cake cake I beg you to sup sup- sul sulI i- i I the impulse I dont don't like i in In fact theres there's nothing in L delicacies or of pore Bore distasteful to me unK un un- K n be mashed potato If a ais ais is de rigueur please make slate late not more than two deep and with not less sit layers By closing my myad and ad I thinking hard about f ng good to eat I may be partake of a ladylike help- help if tha that thata t. t bo in Canan- Canan a a I was a boy pj my birthday anniversaries anniversarIes' events signalized son Boa an meringue pie pic Mother missed hissed not even when the thea a 1 found her in the grip of I ce e. e Mothers Mother's lemon pie of this world as it seems sped pest and the art of baked bak bak- Spi pissed ed with her A birthday it t t lemon meringue pie ale is is' is forth mentioning liter her Anniversary Annl Nears rears teler her er ann anniversary is coming coining May i May artly-May 11 which II-which which if I Ie Ito e to keep going will mark of oC more years as astor astor tor of this health column I U tad bad ad lived when I took the train from Dr Oliver Oli Wendell and began writing health I Ifor for the newspapers originally contributed his r at the Breakfast Tablea Table to a monthly magazine ase he was paid for them themI I I II I I which probably made his medical medical med med- medical ical colleagues who had to work for their money as sore as m mine mine ne were when my daily squib first appeared in the home paper and they thought I was going to steal their patients Speaking of birthday cake in view of the way vay I feel about cake of any kind and mashed potato excuse m my shudder please make mine a small stack six say or eight of pure buckwheat pancakes pan pan- cakes cake genuine prize buckwheat from the great Birkett Mills in Penn Yan N. N Y yeast raised pancakes pancakes pan pan- cakes of course accompanied with Ontario Pennsylvania or l 1 Michigan maple syrup and a pot of coffee brewed as described in I the red book What to Eat and Why Letters Bring Mirth I dont don't know how tow you readers feel about it especially it-especially especially you who are dying that is in the scientific sense of the word you know as everybody begins to do the inI instant instant in in- I stant he reaches the peak of I growth and development development but but I have managed to get a 3 lot of fun out of what might be a lugubrious job if one were inclined to take I life seriously Im I'm afraid I have i I made some of you pretty mad with my sarcasm horseplay and I I epithets such as Geek Geck Stupid pamby Snob Yankee Yankee Yan Yan- kee Wiseacre and whatnot On the other hand I know that many readers I believe most readers are not offended by my use of such terms because they realize no personal indignity can be based upon an impersonal com com- ment No one has ever had reason reason reason rea rea- son to assume that such a term applied to him But boy some of the letters I get from people who do take umbrage umbrage that that is is I get em cm when the editors refer them to me well me-well well some of them give me a chuckle some a real belly laugh Offers Up Things On my birthday I am thankful for many things too sacred to mention here and for one thing I I can mention here without t risk of hurting the delicate sensibilities sensibilities sensibilities of any petty soul I have received no ready made greeting card or bargain counter telegram telegram telegram tele tele- gram of congratulation That sort of commercialized wholesale wholesale whole whole- sale made machine-made Good will nav mw I be profitable for a John cheap l business or a order mail enterprise enterprise enter enter- prise even at a cost of per message But to my mind a single line or a single word jotted on a 3 penny postal card not a picture post card outweighs all the claptrap claptrap claptrap clap clap- trap I h have ve ever rece received ed in lieu II of a salutation provided it is properly signed I In all the years I have been conducting this column even when calling some poor gecks stupid etc I have tried to follow the injunction of Hippocrates Do Good if You Can But Do No Harm If you can conceive a better better better bet bet- ter ethical standard than that for fora forI a health columnist please tell me I about it I |