The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-25

my breakfast. and when have for the
main dish, either eggs cooked in some APP
petlzlng way, or. some meat suited to the
hour OF the day; with this there is a cup
OF tea and some fruit. At 1 have my
dinner. Then 1 seldom consume more
thah couple of tablespoonfuls of soup, a
very small bit Of fish, and, un.ess / am
feeling very WELL no meat at ALL No
sweets, cup of black coffee, and for
bread~I prefer cold toast
40 not ask other people to live as
40, put as | am answering in this letter
the letters of over 200 girls, l am serious
Wnen l say that unless 1 had shown this
care as to what l do eat, l should not be
aliVe to-day. We American women, fore
ed by the unfortunate conditions of life.
10 go out into the work-day world are
mysterious bundle of nerves and emotion
tied together with a bright scarlet rib
bon. The ribbon should be sup
port to us, but ii is not, since its color is
continually exciting us. Therefore, taxi
ing us as we are, we must make the best
OF ourselves. And she who sits up Mt
night, indeed until the late morning,
working on the stimulus given by the eli
gaTettes or strong coffee, will soon cease
to work at all; or else she will become
nervous, morbid old woman a burden to
the people who have to care for her l
used to think that the French women
0Si1 the iilOSt nervous IN the WOIiQ. NOW
1 am convinced that ices nerfs" are me-e-
ly bit of acting on their part, and that
they are too clever not to give proper care
to their bodies, and so to control their
nerves. | know a woman who spends half
her time in sanitariums and hospitals
young woman, pretty woman, a woman
who by every law of nature should
long ago have made her husband a father
but no. she whrled through the season,
she gave no thought to the wisdom that
might be shown in eat and drinking and
she would carelessly say that life-that
is the life that she wanted-should be
short and a merry one. But such lives
are not short always, and they are merry
for very little time. The string that
holds the nerves together may relax a biz.
Its color may fade, but the woman lives
along, pleasure to nobody and terror
instead of an awful example to everybody.
You look at me as much as if to ask if
cakes and ale must be given up entirely
Certainly not. but there are so many
things that are good and appetizng and
healthful and cheap. AS a nation we have
all the fruit in the world at our command
the whole year through and yet some
times little children have to be forced,
sometimes whipped to induce them to eat
beautiful oranges in the early morning.
An orange is more ambrosial and nearer
to the fruit found in the Garden of the
GodS than any otherl How many women
do you know who prefer our wonderful
strawberries, our dainty raspberries and
our rich melons, to some abomination in
pastry that is, nine times out of ten, not
fit to enter the stomach of an. elephant?
l think if 1 had my way, pastry, except
when it was fiaky, light and only offered
in small quantities, should have such
high tariff put upon it that nobody would
buy it. And candies! Every Saturday af-
ternoon there are thousands of dollars
spent at one well-known confectioners' by
young girls who are going to the matinees.
1t would not be so bad if they bought a
little wholesome candy; but, no, they
choose queer little colored sweets. Sweets
filed with absinthe with brandy. and with
all of the dangerous cordials. This is an
easy way to cultivate taste for the IL
quids.
! wish all the women who want to inn
prove their complexion, brighten their eyes
and make their lips red and rosy would
write, in very black ink on a square card
these words: "All the external applica-
tons to the face are useless. My face is
the diary that tells of the treatment
give my stomach, and If that treatment is
bad l will soon be old, ugly and by no
means pleasant as a companion" Then
let this card decorate the mirrors before
which beauty poses. Probably you don't
believe me. Ask your physician He will
tell you that all the wisdom Of the school
of medicine is summed up in the ounce of
prevention that / have given you, and If
you do as say, physicians will not have
so many fees, and "A good many OF them
will have decided grudge against Bah.