Show lights of new york by TRUMBULL is WALTER there Is a wealthy widower in new york fork one of whose daughters lives with him in his rather elaborate home borne lie ile is a man of quick i temper and strong will who when he is crossed or if anything occurs which Is not to his bis liking roars like a couple of lions invariably he eats one egg for breakfast and has done so for years but for some reason he be likes to see more than I 1 one egg on the platter perhaps he likes to make a selection I 1 dont know it any rate his cook apparently ly got tired ot of seeing the other eggs returned and one morning sent up a platter with a single egg on it it the head of the house took one look at it and then began to roar in his best manner ue demanded to know why in the blue blazes he was served with a single eggs egg his butter butler an old retainer told him frankly that he had bad not in the memory of the oldest inhabitant eaten more than one egg and that the cook undoubtedly had concentrated on cooking that one in the best possible manner the man roared that he be would have things cooked and served in his own house as he be gol dinged danged pleased and said to the butter butler you ton go out there and tell that fat addle excuse tor for a cook to poach eggs and keep on poaching eggs until I 1 send her word to stop the butler delivered the message the man ate his egg and then departed hastily for his office 0 0 pretty soon his daughter appeared for breakfast practically covering the table were platters of eggs she asked what it meant and the butler explained she asked how many eggs the cook had bad poached and the butler said he thought the count had bad reached about three dozen and that sup plies were running low the daughter who was not in the slightest afraid of her father for all his roaring smiled a wicked smile send out for more eggs she said and tell the cook to keep right on following orders 0 about an hon hour r later ter she telephoned her father dont you she said til think nl its about time to tell her to stop what in blue blazes are you talking about demanded the head bead of the house qin im busy oh all right said his daughter sweetly only the table Is covered and the sideboard ts Is covered and there are platters of eggs on all the chairs and out into the living room and on the piano you gave the order so of course I 1 dont want to interfere there are ten dozen poached eggs here waiting for you now but you know your own iva cul capacity lacity 11 and she hung bung up op the receiver 0 a 0 when gene tunney was traveling in england he was accosted by a small boy who produced a little book and asked for the retired heavyweight champions autograph tunney gave it to him and the kid thanked him and said of course I 1 dont know a lot about you but I 1 have joe becketts autograph in here As joe beckett ended most ot of his fights lying down tunney was not dot complimented gene used to receive a big mall mail in england and a large portion of it was from persons offering to sell him public houses Bom bombadier badler wells owns a bar and does a good business 1932 bell syndicate service |