Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-11-09
EAT > GOOD BREAKFAST,
Tow the Housewife Can Improve Ter
Husbands Appetite.

Within forty mics Of New York. saws
Harpers BQzar, are iunumerable icwns
which send all their male population,
save the INDECENT. TO the city every day
Ia pursuit of bread-sweetbread nlayhab.
for the men of larger gains. To reach
the Office at the proper hour in the
morning (and every one knows that the
fundamental principle underlying all
wealth is a prompt and early appear
ance at the %oiiice) necessita;es 4 break
fast at Z O'Clock. or half after.
Luncheon does not follow until /. and
is even then a hastily suatchcd meal,
making al interval OF i've or six hours
without food. during which time both
body and brain are submitted to every
sort of fatiguc-the nervous anxiety OF
catching a train. the bad air of the Jour-
ney itself. and tie hurry and worry OF
ofiice-work.
What sort Of preparation has the man
had for this strain on his system? i
nights rest, which OF our exceeds in
yaiue any other restoratiye-b after
that? Sometimes merely his M. e.hift
of coffee and roll. Before it. his longest
fast: after il, his hardest work. The
habit OF eating 4 Slight breakfast is all
wrong.
Perhaps the man IS willing to eat. hut
the housewife. never having studied
The relative values Of foods, places be-
fore him those dishes which do little to
feed the vital flame Of life. An autumn
breakfast served in n house where three
Young men Of the nervous American
temperament went daily to town serves
as a sample. To begin with. there
were Concord grapes, then oatmeal.
then eSreped beef creamed, with fried
potatoes. and coffee to drink. 1t
sounds well aud tastes well. but fol-
nutrition pure and simple is not worth
a picayune.
There are a thousand and one WAYS
of serving fresh beef. mutton. poultry.
and eggs to make them acceptable 10
the peevish breakfast palate, and as a
"space-tiller" there are better things
than friend potatoes. If indigestion
has laid its tenacious hold on the fam
lily, coffee must give way to weak cocoa
or hot (not boiled) milk. All these
things the ho~usekeeper should know, or.
not knowing. should study, that she
may preserve the precious health for
which she is largely though uuwittingiy
responsible. OF course If improper
dishes please the taste and are set before
a man. he will eat them, but don't let
him have the chance. These things APP
ply as well % school children as to busi-
men men.
Eating breakfast is more Of a habit
than one would think. There is no more
common declaration than. "Oh, | can't
eat breakfast. never have any appe-
tite for L." That. too, is a matter of
habit, aud a practice which should be
coaxed away into disuse. 1t taxes but a
moments reflection TO know that ii is a
false theory. for with the long fast be-
fore il, aud the hard labor after ii. break.
fast should be "a meai eIS!al in nutrition
10 the others.
By gradual training even the most
f~astidious can increase the first meal in a
day To include fruit. an naturel o:
stewed, and a chop or bit of broiled
steak or chicken. which. with some sort
OF bread and a hot drink. is sufficient
variety to satisfy the physical needs un-
Ill the luncheon hour.