The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-10-27
To breakfast Intelligently.


To breakfast intelligently may be re-
garded as q duty, for good breakfast
Ia followed by good work and light |
spirits, and therefore he who has |
broken his nights fast in a rational
manner becomes in proportion useful
and agreeable to his neighbors. There |
are two distinctive me tlIods of feeding |
in the morning. They may be de4ined |
as the English and the French. The |
Englishman, whether in Britain or in |
Aus tralia, as a rule, breakfasts early |
and largely, deeming 1t by ne means an
act OF suicidal tendencies TO rise at D
A. M. and dispatch beefsteak, washed |
down by pint OF tea at
The Scotch have the same idea of |
break fast in principle, but apply 1t more |
generously: commence with porridge, |
proceed to animal iood, and wind up |
Wrth marmalade. Long years ago, DR..
Johnson's prejadiees against the Scot |
| uish race vanished at the sight OF a
kScettish breakfast. The great lexicog-
rapher, as our awe-struck ancestors
liked TO call him, did ample Justice first
to the repast set before him, and subse.
qusntly TO his hosts. The Yankee break
| lasts much as his cousin, though he has
had an uncomfortable tendency to add
iced water to his earlier not less than to
his later meals, ana to indulge in milk
Toast. - an abominable fnegs which tastes
like toast q day old which has by acci-
dent been dropped into hot water.
| In San Francisco it is common to be-
gin breakfast with u plate OF irutt, which
lis wonderfully appointing on bright
summer morning; but, after cup OF tea
or coffee mas gone the same way as the
fruit, an alarming sense OF dlstensl0n ls
inroduced, and there is often friend at
lhaud to suggestan early glass of Curacao
as the one thing needtul to set you to
rights, Therefore, man who has any
business TO transact would do we'll to
keep peaches resolutely apart from but
tered toast and it's accompanying bever-
aees. tAn English breakfast" are words
Which call up 50 many pleasant memoir
les. and such a genuine picture of COM
fort. that one hesitates to strgmatize it
as an utterly barbarous institution.
And vet, in spite OF the Missing urn,
itself a companion, the paper leisurely
SKINNED, the fresh morning toilet
oue sometime sees, and the
pleasant gossip-it is sad that a
man is never oonoeited I'll lunch
eonstime-iu spite OF these attractions,
our most national meal is in violation OF
all the rules o. hygiene and common
sense. In the first place, the stomach
ia not prepared at tbat early hour for
the rude exercise TO which we condemn
it, while in the second place the mix
ture OF tea or coffee and meat is object
ionabte for two reasons. Physicians
have shown that the action OF the tan
mic acid in tea upon meat is such as 10
render it highly IndigesttDle, White eOf-
fee is scarcely happier in its results.
Il 1t NAV, perhaps, be urged that the
English breakfast is mot taken immedl-
ateIy on rising, good many persons
being in the habit OF getting up at vari-
GUS Unreasonable hours, from A. NJ.
on ward, and deyotlng the interval to
work, Here, again, medical science
steps in and strongly dissuaues us from
working ON an empty stomach; though
one is bound to admit that some excel.
lent work has beendOne-Aotaoly Scotps
novels. if not his peems-belore break
fast, But no rules can be Laid down for
: the guidance OF ordinary mOrtals from
the habits of genius.
schiller would lock himself up at
night with bottle Of sparkling Rhine
wine and compose till morning; but one
would not therefore be Inclined to
recommend all aspirants ior poetic hon
: ors 10 pursue similar course, lest
sleeplessness and red eyes should in
deed be apparent, but another "Wallen-
stelnn or "hiaria Stuarp be found lack
ling, lii the matter Of breakfast the
= French have given the law TO Europe
ana the Latin world, and had we been
; wise we also should have been content
: TO learn OF the "great nation" Our
!, neighbors have long recognized the car
dinal truth that the stomach, on first
= aWaking TO consciousness and sense
of another days troubles, requires
i, to be comtorted and stayed with gentle
q and stimulating ailments; hence the
early cup of coffee or chocolate with a
, morsel of bread, followed ut an interval
: of three or four hours by The substantial
! meal which it then begins imperatiyeiy
= to demand. The second breakfast is OF
J, course the equivalent OF the Britannia
= lunch, except that it seems somehow ol
y other to be lighter and brisker affair
The fact is that The Briton who has taken
i, the first solid meal, In accordance with
a national customs, has no need TOR lunch
! which somebody Aas described as an in
n salt to breakfast and an injury to din
r. ner. Though there can be No doubt o
! the soundness Of the French rule in re-
: lgard to breaking the nights fast, name
/ Ily, by gradual and Well-considereC
Z Esteps, there has been good deal OF dis.
y icussion as TO the propriety of beginnip,
. the day with cup OF coffee and milk
4 III Pail Mall Gazette.
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