Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1913 — Have Kansas Girls a Way to Make Dad Happy? [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Have Kansas Girls a Way to Make Dad Happy?

TDPEKA. KAN—If father shows a disposition to throw things at the children, or to swear at the family horse, or slap old Bossy over the back with the milk bucket when Bossy switches him in the eye with her tail, it is all because he hadn't had a dainty breakfast or because there wasn’t a pretty, fresh flower beside his plate. That is the Kansas idea. anyway, and the Kansas girls are being taught that the way to avoid bad humors at breakfast, or shortly afterward, is to provide an exceedingly good breakfast and have it served in a dainty rnsnpcr with the proper scenic investiture. "Breakfast is really the most impor tant meal of the day,” said Miss Alma Harm'd, a graduate student of domestic science at the Kansas agricultural college. “It Is the ‘disposition’ meal of ibe family, and a good or bad break SZS&XZX2ZZ

ily for the rest of the day.” Some of the girls have reported that they laid a pretty little home-grown heliotrope or some pansies beside the plate Of the hired man, that It caused the hired man to rise in his wrath and demand the substitution of more salt pork for flowers. Thin slices of bread and dainty table linen and matched silver do not fit very well with the horny son of tol’. and so far as the Investigation showJ tlic.se things didn’t stop dad or the hired man giving the cow a good round smash with a board when the cow stepped into a bucket of milk.