The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-03
BREAKFAsr, MANKIND's BANE.


The scientists never get tired of telling
us what a dangerous thing it is to live.
They drum it into us upon all occasions
that there are bacteria in the water and
bugs in the air; if we drink milk we swal-
low myriads of germs, and if we drink
whisky we take into the system that
which will destroy body and brain. Even
the kisses of love and beauty are apt to
be laden with all sorts of little wrigglers
only awaiting the opportunity to get into
the system and set up some dire malady.
Therefore, says science, we ought to ster-
ilize everything-milk, kisses and all, if
we don't want the bugs to catch us.
And now comes along a scientist with
still another theory. Happily ne has no
bugs with which to alarm us, but what
he says is ominous of evil things to be-
fall If we do not mend our ways quickly
and depart from the paths we have been
treading for 10! these many years. In
short, he assures us that we have got to
quit eating breakfast, If we want to es-
cape apopleXy. Millions of persons of all
ages. in all parts of the world have been
eating the early morning meal. without
falling down with apoplexy; but it must
be remembered they had not then been
warned. Twenty-Five years ago people
did not have appendicitis; nobody had
ever heard anything about it, Consequent
ly. nobody had it. Now, however. every
fashionable doctor must always have one
or more cases of appendicitis on his Wis
iting list. Thus it may prove with the
baleful breakfast habit. Having been in
formed with respect 90 1t. the number of
those who fall victims to It may be ex-
pected to increase rapidly.
The discoverer of the breakfast bane is
Pennsylvania man. 1t rs his theory
that the brain cannot rest as long as the
stomach is at work. Thus when one eats
luncheon and a late dinner the stomach
continues its duty of assimilating the food
throughout the night, and the brain keeps
pace with il in activity. Then when
morning comes If one gets up and sets
the stomach a new task by eating break
fast, the brain Is forced to continue it's
activity without having taken any time
Off for rest and recuperation. When this
sort OF thing Is kept up for a length OF
time, the discoverer says. the inevitable
result is apoplexy. Therefore. leave off
eating breakfast. ne says, and give the
stomach and brain chance to rest, II
you would live long and be happy.
The common belief heretofore has been
that the brain rested, to greater or less
extent, during the hours OF sleep. But,
OF course, they know about those things
in Pennsylvania. and since Pennsylvania
man has said otherwise It might be risk
ing something to dispute the proposition.
1t is not quite clear. however, why the
discoverer does not carry his theory fur
Their, and make 1t embrace luncheon, din
ner and supper as wei as breakfast II
IT Is good for the brain to rest through
the forenoon, why would not It be better
to have IL rest through the afternoon.
evening and night also? What a delightful
thing It would be to have a perfectly pas
sive brain. and stomach without orav-
ines Could that condition not be ac-
quired by cutting out the other meals as
well as the breakfast DIR. Tanner. the
famous faster. says eating is pretty much
a matter Of habit. anyway, and that II
Is possible for the human species to hi.
bcrnate, Just as the bear and the alligator
| do.
| A thought that obtrudes itself. by the
way. In connection with this anu-break.
/ fast scientific" theory. Is that the dis.
oovcrer and promoter OF II had been with.
out his breakfast AZ The time he evolved
81, aud that his brain was profoundly al
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