Telegram-herald., 1890-05-04
WHY THE GIRLS FADE
Shirley Dare Gives Her Sisters
Some Excellent Advice.
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AttAok "a the Oatmeal euPsrsti-
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The HE Of any ordinary woman from
fifteen 70 thirty has 40 possible chance
for the storing Of strength, which j ne
essential OF lOyeliness and attraction,
writes Shirley Dare in the Philsceiphis
Press II is . paying out Of Vitality as
fast as II can be made, tAsking and
taxing Of ill-fed nerves. stinted Of air,
sunshine, rest and healthy stimulus A
schoolgirl rises 20 an eight O'Clock
breakfast or later The sun has been
shining three hours and the rest Is al
its freshest. but she has no thought Tor
a.run out OF doors, which would tone her
for the day. She was up I'LL eleven the
night before, IS most girls OF fourteen
are. al some trining entertainment or
merely sitting round on the doorsteps
or in the parlor chatting with chance
oomers
A mother who wished 20 insure her
health and good looks would insist that
the child should be in bed As soon
after nine each night as possible, allow
ing only one night out a week until she
is eighteen. ! may as well stop here
and close my suggestion, for the outcry
OF mothers and daughters against early
sleep is general and oyerpowering
There is little use 20 talk about Somen's
falling, for few of them have freshness
any longer, but are wizened and thin al
thirteen, what with too many school
books, too much candy, and grown-up
hours and habits generally. OF course
they fade.
The breakfast awskens curiosity.
First comes oatmeal-pasty, inferior
stufT-ill cooked, ft perhaps for plow-
man or shepherd who works his food OF
by hard labor in the open air al day.
but very far from TT food for slender,
nervous girl or boy at school The oat-
meal superstition is a hard ono 20 up
root in the minds Of housekeepers who
have made it a part Of their routine and
hate TO take up anything else. Farmers
do not feed oats 10 their horses unless
they are at hard work, because the grain
is too heating for them and breeds dis
ease in animals unless thrown OF by
vigorous muscular efforts daily.
Oatmeal, especially Of the finer sorts,
in which the housekeeper delights,
often passes digestion in crudo shape
as masses Of starch. which clog the body
without nourishing II. Dry, crisp oat-
cake is much better taken than boiled
oatmeal, and is far moro palatable, its
oil and starch being changed in baking.
Clean cracked wheat Is the food for ner-
vous, studious or housekeeping women
and children, containing as Il does the
phosphates needed and the coarse char
acter which aids the organs in their
work.
The fine fours and foods OF the day
are ono great cause OF the early deterior-
ton OF tho race. II We wished artfully
TO eliminate every particle Of nutrition
from food it would only DC necessary 70
carry the process OF grinding. boiling
and refining a little further. IN my
own experience and that OF the most in
telligcnt literary peogle, II Is not possi-
bic 10 change from sound, coarse food,
containing all tho wheat, for one day
without loss OF strength and nervous
tone, while the difference in complex
ion in a single month challenges admir-
alton from all the women about The
men don't say anything, but they notice
IL all the same.
know that ordinary women scout and
cavil at this doctrine. They will have
1t that their mothers werc strong and
good-looking on white bread and fried
potatoes and steak, and IL is all non
sense TO fuss so much about cracked
wheat aud coarse bread when they are
Just as we'll without 1t. They send 10
the bakers for bread five days in seven
and put their oatmeal 10 cook for tho
breakfast opening course, 10 bc swillcd
down-there is no other word-with
milk and sugar Just before becfsteak or
the ham and eggs.
Oatmeal paste, half cooked, city milk
and sugar. Why not serve ice-cream be-
fore the meats? Let the wheat, care
fully cooked the night before, be served
with Juicy steak. The general habit of
flooding the stomach with milk and
sweets arrests digestion at once and i'm
pairs the value of the food taken after.
All these things tend 70 early dropping
and decay Of tho human flower. Our
women are half-stsrved. 70 tell the
truth.
It is useless 20 say any thing about
tho formal. conventional lives women
lead. which make them prudes and pro
tenders in society and vixen1 when they
are themselves; which restrain tho play
of wholesome. natural instincts and sc-
tivities but train them for perpetual
theatrical exhibition. Social life in
America is fast becoming mere inter
lacing ~ clubs. beginning with the
dancin- class tho Urls friendly society
sns the school literary clubs, going on
% the whist or euchre club, which meets
A. tho houses % members n play for
prize
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