The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-23
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It was poor Marie Antoinette, who.
when told that the people were starv-
ing and had no bread, is said to have
responded with more wit thar wisdom.
rThen why don't they eat cake?' In
the question which men. women and
doctors are discussing just now these
respective bread and cake diets figure
prominently.
Do women eat enough? is the question
Eat enough?Y The voices of thousands
of feminines who for years have con-
eidered themselves well fed rises in in
dignant protest.
And yet doctors say that the oues-
ton is a most important one in this
end of the century. 1t is not suggested
for a moment that any sensible woman
viii go a day about the house or the
shops with "a hungry pain spelling her
ease, But doesn't she often settle the
appetite with the cake diet of poor
Antoinette, instead of some more bene-
ficial article which could nourish and
sustain the body?
Doctors say that this is what she
does, and the masculine part of
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amazement to see q full-grown woman
sitting down to cakes and tea at din
ner time. They wonder how "a woman
gets along She doesn't get along if
the cakes and tea are Of long duration.
Much fun is poked at the petit de-
5euner'' of the French. which means, Of
course, rolls. fresh butter and a pot
of s~teaning coffee at eight o'clock. Many
people will agree with an irascible old
Englishman, who said to me upon one
occasion: o all French denominations
that breakfast of sops is the worst. I
always order a beefsteak and egg /
could put in one bow all the coffee
and bread in France and it wouldn't
make a breakfast for one Christian"
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But, Notwithstanding the opposition of
those who are otherwise accustomed, the
French little breakfast is becoming
very popular among women. those, of
course. who feel not appetite for a full
meal Immediately upon rising. And the
custom is really healthy if a more solid
meal follow it within three hours.
It is a matter of habit. occupation and
taste. If a woman can comfortably take
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1t is certainly beneficial to health and
strength. But if she can feel only
appetite for one there is no cause for
worry.
But one solid meal per day everyone
should have. That is, a meal consisting
of meat, vegetables or fruit. 1t is hardly
credible to any but one who has looked
into his subject tina there are women
who go without this rejection even once
per diem.
But the case is such. The meat
appetite, is wanting, md the eating Of
meat is put offzfrom meal TO meal until
the habit OF going without it grows
strong. andrthe meat diet more distastefui
than ever.
Parents are apt to forbid their little
ones morsel of anything between
meals. This for fear Of disturbing the
appetite. And the theory is good, for
nibbling dulls the edge of appetite. Al
the same time, it very often happens
that very young children cannot go from
meal to meal without growing hungry.
Owing to the small amount of food
taken at one time and to the amount of
exercise in which they indulge a light |
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them in the long ACCOMPLISHMENTS, or
bread and butter. q glass Of warm milk
and so on
A woman's meal is often spoiled by
eating pastry. And there are dozens of
feminines who are slaves to this habit.
Imagine a man beginning his meal with
= Charlotte russo of a sugared lovelock |
He would treat the dainties with the
Ecorn which they deserve at this portion
Of the meal; woufd thrust them aside
lind call for roast beef. The roast beef is
sust as requisite for her.
Thanks to the numbers of cheap and
good eating houses which are fast |
Epringing up; It Is possible for the work.
ing woman To obtain a1good lunch in the |
middle of gthe day. Good soup. sand
witches. milk Hamburg steaks. These are
al prepared now at prices which can
reach the woman who works.
The habit Of starving one's self is one
which grows A woman of my ~acquaint- |
Hnee complained to the family physician
that she felt a real distaste for food. His
answer was: MY dear madame, if YOU |
force yourself to eat now you will soon
regain your appetite, If you continue to |
eat nothing the distaste will grow. To
speak plainly, the stomach shrinks when |
1t is given too little food. It is like other |
mechanism. It gets out of order. when
IT has too much to do and also when if |
too ~little.''
The woman who shops commits many
more crimes in this regard than the |
working m She cannot spare al
half hour from her pursuit of bargains |
to look after the cause of health. she is |
likely to get nothing whatever or some
thing which is unworthy the name Of
food.
To be healthy, wealthy and wise-so |
say the doctors-there must be one full
meal a day. and that a healthy, solid
one.
Unhappy is the youngster who has never
Known the delights Of connecting candy
It home: who has never been allowed to
mould the paste for sugared walnuts and
Dress in the nuts, or whose little face has |
lever become like to the POPPY in all its |
giofy, while stirring a pot at least four
ames as large as her small self. SUCH a |
shild has lost half it's childhood
Undoubtedly, continual candy eating
among the Httle foJk fe b.a e.