Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-16

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/nT@N~ Laura greeted me
I Nh N " NJ onda y morning
M AN Y when l went to Zee
WN her In answer to hel
W0N&- urgent appeal,as she
was sick and could not get out" Laura is
extremely dependent upon her friends for
her happiness. and she is good deal OF
what is called hypochondriac. I found
her sitting up in bed eating, and for a wo-
man who was i'll, and who Is always COM
planning of her digestion, her lunch seemed
| to have been remarkably healthy. Laura
is one Of these large. loosely -put-togeth
girls, with big bones and all well covered
but the trouble is, that kind Of a structure
always runs to flesh after few years, un-
less a girl is carefully groomed all the
time. She does not dare to let go Of her
self for single day. Laura's appetite is a
| standing joke among her friends. You will
find that the people who run to flesh are
| always hearty eaters, and use no discrimi-
nation as to what they eat. SO long as 1t is
well cooked and rich. Laura fairly gorges
herself, and is always complaining of a tor
pid liver. indigestion. headache and feel
| ing of inertia. Yet she will eat, anything
and everything. In fact, eating is her chief
| amusement, and, like all excuses. there Is q
| penalty attached which she pays hour by
hour and day by day. She is getting fat
1 presume there is more terror in that
term than telling woman she Is growing
Cid; one may grow old gracefully. but get
ting fat gracefully-my friends. 1t can't be
done.
Come, Sara, tell me what to do" urged
Laura, showing back the dishes. and set
| Ting among the pillows. / looked at the
| tray on which stood a dry coffee pot. a
drained cream jug. an empty platter still
hot from ham and eggs, dish with oil left
crusts of toast, a sauce dish stained with
berries, and a pie plate with some bits OF
| cheese on it, well. Laura 1 said. you
might learn how much to eat and when EOt
| to eat too much
Feeding VS.. Dining.
In her Indignation she nearly strangled
herself on the awful mouthful of dry toast
! she was munching. 1 think it was Byron
| who said. Never call a girl pretty until
you have seen her eat" Possibly the fact
that he did not wait accounts for his
| vagaries in affairs OF the heart. 1t is a sad
| fact that very few girls ever think abou,
their table mannerisms. Not manners. but
mannerisms, things peculiar to the individ
ual. This friend Of mine not only does not
| KNOW what 10 eat, out Sne OOeS not KNOW
how to eat IL. and that Is the cap sheaf OF
her crime, for l count ii nothing short OF
a crime to be glutton, and that 10 the
plain English of it. l suppose very few
people are adopts in the art of eating. fol
| II is an art, and its requirement must be.
| gin with the high chair and go with one &c
| the end. In the west. where women are
few, where the amenities Of polite society
| are never seen and men live to drink and
| eat only to live, lets feed our faces" II
the graphic style of invitation to dine and
| / have seen people feeding in a manner
| that made me think that perhaps that was
a very good term, for 1t resembled thai
| process more than any other l have seer
| women who feed their faces" Ny friend
| is one of them.
| You are horribly unkind." murmuret
| Laura. she called the maid TO remove
| the tray and bring her glass of som,
| medicated waters, warranted to cure every
| thing but i'll temper. "One can't starve
| and what is the use OF living II one can
| get any pleasure out Of life? You are al
ways fussing about my eating too much"
| only because you are always complain
| ing about your indigestion and your in
| creasing rotundity, which passed the dan
ger point long ago. as You very we'll know,
| replied severely. l had made up m,
mind that sugar-coated pills would n,
| longer fill the bill for Laura, but that som,
bitterly drastic advice that would fairl,
| take her breath away was about the siz,
OF the dose l would give her, and 1 ad
guised and in liberal quantities Laur,
| fretted and fumed, but / had her at my
mercy, since she had deliberately invitet
the visitation. and 1 didn't leave the sub
ject till l had emptied my mind Of all tn,
| ideas 1 had on the subject Of feeding"
| The Aesthetic Side of Eating.
I wish girls understood better what de
lightful creatures they are when they
know how to eat daintily. l do not NEAR
that they should stint themselves but tina
/ they should be careful about conveying
food to their mouths and the proper wal
of disposing OF it after it is in the mouth
Many people try to eat and drink at tn
same time. The result is not agreeable
particularly II they try to talk on top o
it all. Some girls chew their food witt
their mouths open, which is simply disgust
ing. Eating has its aesthetic side az wei
as its physiological and hygicnic though
few seem to realize 1t. While Redtop wa
visiting us he was favored with invita-
tons to dine out, often by women VIII,
wished to introduce him to some Of thsi
| young lady guests, but he steadily de
| clined. / asked him why, for 1 could no
| understand 1t, since he was fond of womel
ana seemed to seek their society.
Eatin' amt no pretty process. 'cordin
| TO my notion" he replied apologetically
Most folks KANT eat an talk at once with
out slobberin', an 1 stacks 1t up that I'd
heap ruther MUNICH my fodder by myse'f
| onless l happens to round up along o
| folks that don't hold cases on me-"
| A very learned doctor says the first ant
| fundamental process Of digestion Is masti
| cation" and there Is one Of Laura's great
! est troubles. She takes such awful mouth
| fuls that she can't chew her food properly
| 1t Is a physical impossibility to chew {
large mouthful as thoroughly as a small
| one. Did you ever watch woman" gour
mand "feed? 1T amt no pretty process,
| as Redtop affirms. but 1t Is one that ma,
be seen any day almost in any public eat
| Ing place and in far too many privat,
houses. You have seen a chicken swallow
| grain of corn that was too large to 4,
| down easily, and remember how 1t gulpet
and stretched it's neck. Well, that Is tn,
| way some women eat, and 1t superinduces {
kind Of facial gymnastics that coarsen
both features and expression. II any wo
man needs to be convinced Of the figure sh,
cuts when eating, let her sit before q mir
TOR while dining and go through the process
Of chewing and swallowing for a few mo
ments. She will then be able to see hersel
as others see her, and II she has about he
one atom Of pride she will correct her ba,
habits.
We Are What We Eat.
Both men and women are too much give,
to boiling their food. They eat too hur
riedly, and fall into such disgraceful habits
as well as bringing on indigestion. and tina
in turn brings on fatty degeneration. wo
men are more given to eating hurried,
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