Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-04-22
A MANS THREE MEALS.
Some Common Sense Suggestions
About Food in Its Relations
to Health.

About Food in Its Relations
to Health.
Yes, breakfast ought to be hearty
one eaten early in the morning, and
eaten slowly, so as to preclude the pos
sibility of eating too heavily, which
would materially interfere with the
business of the day. A man or woman
who is no brcakfast-eatcr must be either
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, or
be in n bad state of health. A person
who requires the stimulus of a cup of
coffee, or any other stimulus or slim
ulant whatever, before partaking of
solid food, is not in the heyday of health.
l like to see man have his breakfast
first, and then feel round for his cup of
coffee, tea, or chocolate. have known
the strongest and healthcst of men to
positively forget all about the liquid
part of their breakfast and leave the
table without it. | have known men
who scarcely ever touched a drop Of
liquid of any kind from one weeks end
TO another, and who, nevertheless, were
in ruddy and robust health. What a
person eats for breakfast often gives me
example, If while sojourning at hotel
l see 4 man come down to breakfast be-
tween 10 and II clock. and sit down
to devled kidneys with plenty of sauce
(piquanD, and perhaps one poor puny
egg to follow, | would be willing to
aver that he carries white tongue and
that his liver sadly needs seeing to-
Ham and eggs, bacon and eggs, or a
beefsteak or underdone chop, with
boiled eggs to follow, and then cup of
nice tea, is a sensible breakfast for a
man who is going away out into the
fresh air to walk or ride or work till
noon, but not for a person who has to
sit all day in the same position at man
ual labor. | emphasize the word man
ual, because intellectual or mental work
conduces to appetite. An author hard
at his desk, if his ideas be flowing free
ly, if he be happy at his work, and time
flying swiftly with him, soon gets hun
CRY, which only proves that we must
support the body well when there is II
strain upon the mind, so that no extra
expenditure of tissue may lead to debil-
ity. Cheerful conversation insures the
easy digestion of good breakfast. 1t
is pity that in this country the custom
of inviting friends to the matutinal meal
is not more prevalent 1t may seem a
strange thing to say, but ] would ten
times sooner 90 out to breakfast than to
dinner. One is, or ought to be, freshest
in the morning; he then needs no arti-
fetal stimulus to make him feel bright,
witty, happy, as he too often does after
the duties of the day are over.
The midday meal, or luncheon, to
those who dine in the evening and who
have work to do in the afternoon,
should be light one. I am not quite
SIRE that l do not quite approve of the
city "snack." 1t puts one past, it sus-
tains nature, it leaves the mind free to
think and do its duty, and, above all, it
enables the stomach to have rest be-
fore the principal meal of the day.
Now, about this meal, l have to say
that, if partaken of alone by ones self,
it ought to be an abstemious one. Even
in company it need not be heavy one.
No matter how many courses there are,
there is not the slightest necessity of
making too free with them. But it is
fact, which every one must have felt,
that even a moderately heavy meal is
quickly and easily digested if accom-
panied with and followed by witty or in
tellectual and suggestive conversation.
Il am a dyspeptic, must not dine
out" have heard gentleman more
than once remark.
Well, my impression is that it does
dyspeptics deal of good to dine out if
they eat in moderation and judiciously,
never being tempted to call in the aid
of artificial stimulus TO enable them to
do as men of more robust physique are
doing around them.-Cdsselrs Maga-
zine.