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...time (1893) one Henry D. Perky, a dyspeptic lawyer, was trying a lawsuit in a small Nebraska town. Breakfasting one morning at the community's only hotel, Lawyer Perky noticed a fellow breakfaster eating what looked like a saucer of whole wheat grain. He would take a large spoon and break up the cooked whole wheat, add milk and cream, and consume. Curious, Lawyer Perky asked questions...
Interested, Lawyer Perky tried the boiled wheat, liked it, found it readily digestible. He realized, however, that the average breakfaster would not find boiled wheat particularly palatable, would not go to the trouble of breaking it with a spoon. So he consulted a machinist and worked out a process for drawing the cooked wheat into shreds, forming the shreds into loaves, and baking the loaves in coal ovens. After peddling his biscuits in baskets around Lincoln, Neb. and Denver, Col., Mr. Perky acquired some money, moved to Worcester, Mass., started a Shredded Wheat factory...
...cadences Mayer sets down the story of this Canot, Italian by birth, American by adoption, who sailed the last legal slaver before the trade was outlawed. Forced thereafter to bootleg his valuable black cargo, he practiced the proverbial sardine economy of space in his barracoon, packing his human loot spoon fashion, so that each wretch lay curved in his neighbor...
...knife, fork and spoon...
...Soames Forsyte's life is complete, and his daughter Fleur, the only descendant that bred true to Forsyte pride and cynical acquisitiveness, has worried her fate to tragic anticlimax. In The White Monkey fate (and Soames) wrenched her from the love of her cousin Jon; in The Silver Spoon fate (and Soames) taught her to snatch what she wanted; in Swan Song again fate (but not Soames) brings her Jon that she might snatch him only to lose him forever. For of the Two Forsyte Interludes one has told charmingly of Jon's new love, and the other...