The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-20
HOW We BREAKFAST.
A Hurried UnSoCiab1e Meal
at Best But With Many
Courses.
WHY 50 MANY LACK APPETITE FOR II
How To Make Ii More Tempt
ing-Practical Hints.

BREAKFAST always Will Dc more VI losS
of Il failure as far as sociability Is con-
cerned. The fact that one member of the
household leaves on the $40 while
another leaves on the 7:02: that one stray
giles in after the other. with the result
that one is enjoying his hot ham and
eggs while the other is grumbling be-
cause his oatmeal is cold; that Jennie has
a good story which she must tell while
Tom plainly shows he is anxious to
peruse the morning paper;-these and
many such incidents tend to mar the
first meal of the day. Apropos of too
much talk at breakfast the writer recalls
the following story:-A young wife re-
marked that she and her husband never
entered into conversation before break
fast. 1t was hard at first. she said, but
previously they had gotten into endless
disputes while dressing. and each de-
velOped such a bump of assertiveness.
and rs a result breakfast would be so for.
NAL and disagreeabie that they had tried
the keep quiet plan. 1t succeeded ano
she recommends 1T.
There Is as much difference between
the breakfast of a French or German
family and an English family as there is
III IL ldhH ouEC vi Nv ooutl NV
Americans have adopted the English
plan. Many French people have their
first breakfast served In bed; 1t consists
of u cup of coffee and Il roll. The Ger
man. rs a class. would scorn such luxur-
ious laziness. and break their fast with
rolls aud coffee Mt table. Nothing more.
But they make up for it. AT about ten
they will enjoy luncheon with cold meat
and a glass of wine and beer; at uoon,
dinner with soup always. The Germans
are not so particular about dessert, butin
the afternoon any visitor in n hospitable
German family will be invited to join
them and partake of cake and coffee.
comes beer.
II AMERICAN WAY.
These six meals NAV be all well and
good for the stolid German, who always
seems to have plenty of time to devote to
them; but the Americans view this. per-
time. They have followed the English
custom, and, no doubt, in the lavish way
for which they are famous, added much
to the bill of fare. There are courses and
courses. The American must economize
time. If nothing else. SO he provides HIM
self with enough God to last, and only
INDUCES In a light luncheon before his
heaviest meal-dinuer. Breakfast should
be q hearty meal; in fact, a gooi author
ity asserts that it should be the principal
meal--not dinner. He describes the too
active American way thus:-
You rise i'll the morning, quickly dress
yourself, drop down at the table. swallow
in haste a cup of coffee, hurriedly eat u
hot roll, seize. your hat and rush to the
cars or vour place of business, drive
through your morning work, run into u
restaurant, swallow something that an
alligator would find it difficult to digest.
&c back to your study, counting room or
mart of trade, where you are driven by
the press ami perplexities of business or
study until five o'clock, when you hasten
home faint and exhausted and sit dow
to your six O'Clock dinner.
"Tne same habit OF hurrying cllngS to
you at the meal, and you bolt a mass of
hot meats and the usual ct ceteras, and
go to bed md toss and turn and wrestle
with horrid shapes. Your digestive or
cans are in no condition to receive that
mass of matter. the business, the IAN
ming, the brain work OF the day has
driven the blood to the brain aud lungs.
thus checking the flow of the gastric dis
solvents. and now all night, Instead of
quiet rest, nature has been at work to re-
move that half digested mass of material
from the stomach. Do you wonder that
you have no appetite IN the morning?
Now. the stomAen, as well as other or
gnns, calls for seasons of rest and recup-
Grafton or ii will fail in its functional
duties. Would you have eng OF days?
Change all this"
HOW TO TEMPT AN APPETITE.
Now that we have Proven thai break
fast ought to be a hearty meal, let Ms see
how we can tempt an appetite. One
thing which chases it away TOO often is
bad air in the sleeping rooms; this in
duces headache and loss of appetite. AL
other way-and here ] speak to house,
keepers-is to nave the dining room
always neat aud the table carefully and
attractively laid. Nothing is more irri-
tating to a nervous neat man than to
nave the dining room made the halfway
house for books, umbrellas and gloves.
which. the different ones have carelessly
left about. Tue dining room il not each
ones private properly. bnt belongs to all.
for Il specific puI pose. The temuersture OF
the o always needs atteuiion ami the
details of the laying of the table. know
a man who cannot eat mis- meal in pace
if, by accident, he has been given a large
knife with a small fork. He cannot and
does not.
Fruit seldom fails to tempt the appetite,
aud is very healthy; III season, rauishes
and fresh muskmelons are very grateful.
The dining room can be made more iuvit-
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