Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-02-10
THE SCHOOL BREAKFAST.

Some portion of the delicacy OF
health still often seen in our young
girls comes from circumstances IN
their home life that could be amended
Ill most instances If they were recog-
nized and understood. Too frequently
the pallid child who complains, even
on waking in the morning, of being
tired-tlred rs when she went to bed
has shared the bed of some much
older person: grandmother or aunt or
mother. The narrow things of home
do not all Nv separate bedchambers, it
may he; bat it would seem as if separ-
ate beds might always be managed, even
II at the sacrifice of the symmetry of
the arrangement of furniture and the
picturesqueness of the room. Ii they
cannot be managed otherwise, it would
be better for the young girl to have her
bed freshly made every night on
lounge, or on any of the multitndinous
contrlvances that nowadays disguise
bed in the shape of desk or wardrobe
or bookcase. Why it should be nee
essary, what is the hidden reason of the
trouble, is not easy to saT, even if it is
possible; but the fact remains that,
without any observable benefit to the
elder person. the child sleeping in the
same bed seems to lose strength and
vitality, appetite, roundness, and rosi-
ness, and to wither away, till one re-
members the old stories of spells and
lncantations where the victim withers
as the candle burns, or the waxen i'm
age shrinks in the heat, till nothing is
left of either. Give the young girl
her separate bed, her early and her
quiet sleep in a darkened and cool but
not cold room, her gradual waking only
Mt the hour when nature awakes her,
and her quick bath and brisk rubbing,
and it will be singular thing if she
MT lose her pasty pailor and her Ian
guild sensations, and become round and
blooming and full of energy.
With this done, probably the rest
will arrange itself; that is to say, she
Will have an appetite for her breakfast,
noe rmal appetite for normal things,
and not for pie only, and for nothing
alse but sweetmeats, if indeed even for
them. This matter of a nourlshiDg
and easily assimilated breakfast is one
of as great Importance as the other.
The girl who rises too tired to eat her
Dreakfa3t, or so late that she must
snatch a morsel and run for school,
goes without the fit amount of nour-
ishment, and is impoverised in blood
and muscle and growth, and often in
mental strength to a corresponding eX-
tent; there is no blood to color the
cheeks, or give sparkle to the eye, or
strength to the limbs, or energy to the
heart; there is no force to do the neCes-
sary work; the child is deprived of her
natural share of life, and if she lives at
all, never reaches her full stature
either physically or intellectually.
Whoever it is that has the charge OF
the child's health should make it one OF
the first duties, at any inconvenience
whatever, to see that the child has q
breakfast which Is relished, and of
which she will eat well and heartily. If
it cannot be done without rising early,
without overseeing the servant, without
doing the work ones self, n servant be
ing lacking, then one must rise and do
it; for having the child to care for,
duties are owed to her, superior we
we might almost say to the duty owel
ones self; and among the first of these
duties is that of seeing that her body
is properly sustained by affording her
the articles of which she will eat a suf-
ficient quantity for the support of her
system, which in the growth of her
body constantly needs new material.
A young girls appetite is often fastid-
ious, although not uncomfortably so if
she is perfectly healthy; and many a
mother complains that her daughter
eats no breakfast, the plain fact being
that her daughter had really no break
fast TO eat, since there was nothing pre-
pared at all alluring to tine feeble ap-
petite, or of which, even by IN effort,
enough could be eaten to make a meel,
while you would hardly expect a canary
to make meal off the pebble stones
that would content an ostrich. 1t does
not need that the viands should be
dainties or delicacies; they perhaps
would be as bad as the opposite, but
only that n study of taste, and an OBJ
servation of what is eaten and what is
left neglected, shall be exercised in the
preparation of the meal, always re-
mem bering that this study is given not
to ramper a jaded appetite, but to pro-
mote enough appetite to feed starv-
ing system.-Bazar.