San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-29
FOR MIND AND BODY.
Good for One as To What is Best to
Eat for the Other.

Eat for the Other.
1t doesn't not matter what a man
looks like so long as he is decent and
healthy, but it is the duty Of every |
gentlewoman TO be as good looking as |
her circumstances will permit, says |
What to Eat
Woman eat themselves ugly, i'll, and |
brutal.
Mrs. Mack, that fiendish creature |
who has brought disgrace upon New
York and smirched the fair name of
Columbia, has the appetite of wolf
hound. No civilized woman, nurtured
on fruits, bread and butter, salads,
and eggs could have reached the high
average of her criminal scholarship.
Old DR.. Loomis, of New York, who
used to prescribe a green Diet for
his patients and charge $50 for office
| visits, because he would not go to any
client but a friend, used to say: "All
that ails our women is hoggishness."
| While neither complimentary nor en-
tirely accurate, there is a great deal
of truth in the statement.
| 1t wouldn't make so much differ
ence what lovely woman ate if she
/ waited long enough between meals to
| get hungry, but She doesn't: and
| there's where the trouble begins. Ma
ture is tenacious old jade. Given
the time she will digest and assimi-
late almost anything that the stomach
| can retain.
1t is well-known fact that spells
of adverse fortune are invariably ac-
companied by superior physical condi-
lions. Brokers families never look so
we'll as during a panic. Heightened
criminals invariably come out Of
prison in better health and face than
they had when they went in. And
who has not remarked the refinement
of spirit and nature born of sorrow
and temperance in bereaved families
1t is we'll worth the expense Of a trip
to Carlsbad or Aix-les- Bains not only
to take the waters but to learn how
not to take the food that deform and
destroy the body.
Unless woman washes or works
for living she doesn't need three
meals any day of her life. 1t takes
systematic work TO consume that much
fuel. Engineers are too clever to fill
the furnace with coal unless there is
a trip to make, an elevator to run, or
work to do.
If a woman is going to sit in rock
ing chair all morning, read the paper,
polish her finger nails, and boss her
servants and children, a roll and cup
of coffee will amply sustain her sys-
TEN. 1t doesn't follow that she must
eat ham and eggs, fried potatoes, hot
biscuits. and fruit, just because her
husband needs such a repast, to pro
vide for her exquisite tastes. He has
work to do, points to make. battles to
fight money to earn, and, like the lin.
tied express, steam must be kept NJ
to the winning mark.
The brilliant Nine. de Sevigne. who
was as beautiful as Venus at 40, had
coffee or soup in the morning with hei
letters, and eggs, salad, cheese, and
wine at noon. She spent the afternoon
T in reading, when the deputies of state
were not in session, and her dinner
talk charmed Louis lat and his court
She once wrote 10 her daughter about
memorizing, with the great Roche
foucauld, Ia Fontain's fable, ''rhC
Monkey and the Cat" to talk about a
one of Prince Condos dinner parties.
If woman intends to use her brain
to do with one chin, avoid shelving
hips, and develop her spiritual nature
she can't be too temperate. Let hel
throw carrots to the cows, cabbage t
the hogs, oaiten meal to the chickens
pork and veal to the dogs. and liver t,
the cats and live like the birds, tn,
Bedoulns or the Romans.
With the money the average Ameri
+ can girl spends for ice cream, sodi
water and candy, and the cost of the
meat she consumes at breakfast an(
lunch, she could learn Il language. TAX,
a musical course, or make a foreign
trip that would broaden and amust
her
Woman eat a great deal of trash
Stuff like pickles, olives, liver, tripe
hard eggs, oranges, cabbage, parsnips
and kidney are too heavy a tax on the
digestive organs for the small per CEN
of nutritive material they yield. Or
anges should be drank. Like grapes
they are wine producing, but less stin
ulating, and more nourishing Thre,
: or four squeezed in a glass is the mic
, est kind of desert at lunch, or an in
PRODUCTION to breakfast.
Corn bread is a golden cosmetique
Spinach is we'll named by the Frencl
-belly-broom; there are no bette
: foods for the complexion than tOma
= toes, cucumbers, and figs, the seed
they contain being sufficient to accele
rate digestion without the Irritating
effect of grapes and blackberries
Hominy is one of the best of cerea
foods; except as invalid food, rice
should not be served without butter
cream or fruit; apples and onions can
not be overstimated, and salads are q
/ balm for beauty.
II A woman who wants to wear as
well as the princess of Wales should
/. live on toasted or crusty bread, an6
the hotter the better, for dead germs
like dead lions, are safest. In this
country we make bread that isn't fl
> to eat. The wet stuff lies in the
stomach like so much gum elastic, anG
the fermentation needed to digest Il
produces irritation or dyspepsia. Nc
bakers loaf or roll should go on a gen
tlemen's table excepting via hot over
or broiler. Even then it is an economy
to pull out the pastry inside and con