Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-08
CHARACTER IN EATING
WoMAN's NATURE COMES OUT AT
MEALA
The Kind Of Girl that Makes q Desira-
BILE Wife-She Who
VIII Be Good.
From the New York SIM

From the New York SUM-
The subject OF eating has so enlisted q
| German scientists interest that he has
| made fluctuations to the actual process.
! The size Of the ordinary bite or mouthful
for the average person he finds is three
tenths of a cubic inch. And IL takes thirty
| seconds completely to masticate a mouth
full of solid food like beefsteak or cheese
The size of the largest bite recorded is half
| an inch in diameter. The tongue guides as
to the size of mouthfuls to be swallowed.
the tongues judgment being helped by SEN
sations through the teeth and gums.
There is no knowing whether the profess
sor made his observations around a camp
fire when the eaters were of guard and
| etiquette in allegiance, or in formal dining
| room circles. But II Is certain that into
| eating there goes considerable individual
expression, and the demeanor and practice
| at meal time become significant of the per-
| sons general temper and qualifications
Here are some that a woman has inter
preted:
The Selfish Feeder.
The woman who she eats fushes no.
| ticeably, swallows her food rapidly, almost
| in jerks, and keeps continually turning over
| the morsels on her plate, Is she to whom
material things mean a good deal She
| is selfish and capable Of being spiteful.
| However. fair and shapely in youth she
Will be stout at forty.
The girl who looks pretty when she eats
| is the vivacious. dimplng sort of girl who
| makes into new life when she sings or
! talks or laughs. She puts small nicely
proportioned mouthfuls between her pref
~ red lips with a dainty precision that
makes 1t seem nice attention on her part
really to eat the food. And she manages
! her knife and fork though she made a
| pleasure of it, imparting a certain grace
and facility to the operation. Her eating
| manner betokens sunny temper and
| disposition to make the best of things.
The Nervous Girl.
| The nervous girl can be told by the man
! ner in which she breaks her bread and
| sips her soup. She eats in a quick, vora-
| cious manner, even though eating little.
| and with evidently very limited interest in
| the food for its own sake. Such a girl will
| never have the force or courage to pursue
| her ambitions. She would be crushed by
\ adversely rather than rebound from 1t. And
| friend to confde in and rely upon is a
| necessity to her.
| The girl who eats steadily as though 1t
| were a business to be got through, not
sparfng much interest to the talk going
on around or to the relishable qualities Of
| the viands. is the systematic, practical girl
| who will make a good wife and orderly
housekeeper She would look naturally TO
| the main chance in household or business
investment, be thrifty and economical, and
not be apt to bother her husband or friends
with f1ighty, erratic tendencies.
The girl of needless view Is told by the
| spoon. left upright in the half-drained cup
| the knife and fork left at cross angles or
balanced ticklishly on the plate and the
| chair pushed back just as she arose from
| 1t. She is of insensible, undiscriminating
nature. with little chance to develop an in
| terest in the finer things Of life. When she
becomes housekeeper her servants will be
slatternly and the nicer points Of conven-
fence and household comfort will be miss
ing.
Strongmindedness.
The girl who eats onions in every form,
not so much because she likes them as be-
cause she believes them to be wholesome:
who eats cereals on principle and abstains
religiously from desserts and sugary con-
| fections that she deems pernicious. is the
sort to develop strongmindedness and in
| dependent proclivities before she is out Of
the twenties. She Will make good wife,
but not comfortable one. She is the sort
OF woman to get for herself a hobby and
never quit riding 1t.
The girl who eats very slowly, even while
not consuming much, munching her mouth
fuls deliberately and surely, is Of impracti-
cal turn. given to undertaking. things that
the majority of people count as Of most
consequence. She Is fastidiOus and aesthetic.
| destined never to make much show in the
| world, and to care little for that fact so
long as she has leisure and a well ordered
existence.
for man is she whose organ OF taste Is
as alert as her other faculties; who eats in
a noticing. discriminating way that implies
her recognition of the importance of mat
ters usually considered humdrum. She does
not hesitate to interrupt the most interest
Ing talk by asking for another helping
for some condiment she lacks, and shows
plainly her belief that the embroidery of
hA ia IN he m AT
terial.
Loquacity at Table.
The girl. on the other hand, who IL 30
taken up with the topics under discussion
that she forgets to eat and has her plates
in the various courses borne away before
she has more than tasted them, is ill-itted
for the sterner duties of life She will al
ways be entertaining herself with whims
and illusions while real opportunities slide
by. She will lack Judgment and make mis-
takes, but will be a warm hearted, depend
able mate to the husband whose nature is
strong enough to guide her.
The girl who, in the ordinary routine of
boarding house or hotel life. hurrfes through
her meal. even though she has leisure in
plenty and never fails to gather her plates
and dishes and pile them for the walters
benefit, Is one to whom dispatch and system
are Unborn, and the subtler things of life
meaningless. She comes from a stock of
steady going housewives 80 engrossed with
the homely round Of existence that they
had no time to cultivate the graces. II
such a woman had millions and untold lux
ury within her grasp she could not rid her
self OF these slaytsh housewtfely propensi-
ties.
For a woman to SLOUGH forward in her
seat wind her feet around the back legs OF
her chair and fall to with knife and fork is
a sure sign of grossness of temper and duh
or unframed perceptions. She 10 the sort Of
woman who could derive amusement from
vulgar sources and whose appetite would