The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-11-09
EAT 4. GOOD BREAKFAST.
Row tho Housewife Can Improve I-er
Husbands Appetite.

Within forty miles of New York, says
Harper's Bazaar. are innumcrable tcwns
which send all their male population,
save the INDECENT, to the city every day
in pursuit of bread-sweetbread mayhab,
frr the men of larger gains. 10 reach
the office al the proper hour in the
fundamental principle underlying all
wealth is a prompt and early appear
aace at the otiice) necessitates IL break
fast at Z O'Clock, or half after.
Luncheon does not follow until l. and
is even then II hastily snatciicd meal,
making an interval OF five or six hours
without food. during which time both
body and brain are submitted to every
sort of fatigue-the nervous anxiety of
catching u train, the bad air Of the jour
ney itself. aud tie hurry aud worry OF
otiice-work.
What sort of preparation has the man
had for this strain on his system? A
nights rest. which of course exceeds in
value any other lestorativc-but after
that? Sometimes merely his ms eshitt
of coffee and rod. Before it. his longest
fast; after it. his hardest work. The
habit OF eating u slight breakfast is all
wrong.
Perhaps the man is willing to eat. but
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 q house whore 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 Clipped beef creamed. with fried
potatoes, and coffee to drink. Ii
sounds well and tastes well, but 70,
nutrition pure and simple is not worth
a picayunc.
There ure q 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 (nGt boiled) mix. All these
things the h~ousckeeper should know,o or,
not knowing, should study, that she
may preserve the precious health fol
which she is largely, though uuwittingIy
responsible, OF course if improper
dishes please the taste and are set before
Il man he will eat them, hut don't let
him have the chance. These things APP
ply as well 10 school children US to bust
men men.
Eating breakfast is more of a habit
than one would think. There is no more
ommon declaration than: "Ob, ] can't
eat breakfast. | never have any appe-
tile for it." That. too, is Il matter Of
habit, and a practice which should be
coaxed away into disuse. 1t takes but a
moments reelection to know that ii is a
false theory, for with the long fast be-
fore it, and the hard labor after it, break
fast should be u meal egslai in nutrition
TO the others.
BY gradual training even the most
f%astidious can increase the first meal in a
day to include fruit, an naturei or
stewed, aud Il chop 81 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.