The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-02-11

! ~ oilce saw an American woman
out for walk, much less did l ever see
one enjoying the air of the public
| parks. They are always i'm a hustle
always in hurry, always have they
Sot something important to do There
| Is no time to get the air.
Now, the English woman doss not
work in this way. She looks after her
own children and frequently takes
them TO school. Then she does her own
| marketing. An American woman will
! spend money on telephone messages
calling up the butcher the baker and
the candlestick maker giving her or
ders for the day
The English woman on the other
| hand, will get out and do her own mar
ksting. She will order her meats and
| her groceries and will go from green
| grocer to greengrocer selecting what is
To be eaten during the day.
And the result is obvious. She gets
the air and she gets exercise. She gets
occupation, and she .,ets many other
things which she needed-namsly; food
! for her brain. as well as something for
her body to do.
The English woman" continued this
| observant Englishman. never worries.
she never wakes UP in the night and
! says TO herself. I must do this and 1
must do that She never occupies the
| long watches toward morning in per-
| picking problems concerning the ways
and means of accomplishing this and
| trait. She does the best she can every
| day and let's the rest go.
And there is another thing about the
| English woman. She never gets ner-
| Vous The American woman is apt to
spend more money than she can afford,
, and the thought of Eer extravaganza
makes her nervous and worried. She
Is not free and easy in her mind. Her
face begins to pucker and she is old
before her time.
The English woman of 30 has bright
and red cheeks and a clear eye. She
may be full in figure. but her cheeks
are plump and she is not wrinkled nor
haggard. Her eyes are not dull
The English woman preserves to
the last her clear sightedness and her
| cheerfulness. In old age Mrs. Glad
stone was as clear, as tranquil, as full
OF life, and as placid in manner as
when in her early prime. The Ameri-
can woman at so is a wreck. Few wo-
men ever live to be as old as so in
America, and when they do. it is dis
tressing to behold their feebleness.
They are shaking, uncertain. trembling
| in body and in voice. and thoroughly
unnerved; 1 have lived my life they
plainly say. both in words and in man
rer. And certainly in looks.
THE English woman takes her best
meal at an hour when she is best able
to digest it. She makes a hearty meal
at noon. But at night she eats moth
ing nor until next morning. To be sure
she has her cup of tea, and plenty of
bread and butter at o'clock, and
frequent cups of tea in between times.
But she makes no hearty meal after the
middle of the day.
1T is said that the English woman
lives on roast beef. True, she eats it
one meal a day. But as an actual fact
her main living is hot breads. vegeta-
! bles and tea. She is as fond of pota-
toes as her cousin, the Irish woman,
and as fond of rye bread as her rela-
tive, the Scottish woman. She eats po-
tatoes cooked properly. and rye bread
and hot biscuit, and crackers heated
i'm the oven. And she takes fried oat
cakes and all sorts of dishes of that
kind. while her hearty meal consists of
roast beef and roast beef gravy, greens
and potatoes.
1T is seldom that the English woman
INDUCES in high living. She eats little
and is hungry for her food"
4 wish / knew what it is to feel
hungry" chatted an American woman
in London to her next door neighbor.
Il don't think I have been really hum
CRY for five years"
why don't you go without a meal?"
said the English woman. Il was not
hungry this noon, SO l only took a cup
OF tea. BY night 1 shall be hungry. l
wait until l am so hungry that i can
eat bread and butter and potatoes. That
il the way TO enjoy your food"
The English woman will make a meal
off cold potatoes sliced up on a platter
and sprinkled with pepper and salt.
Perhaps she will pour little melted
butter over them. But she will drink
tea. eat waffies and partake of home
made marmalade. Her foods are not
quite as filling, not quite as fattening,
not quite as bad upon the complexion
as the American pickles, strong coffee.
sausages and wheat cake scombination.
But it is her outdoor life that is her
great salvation. She goes out of doors
a great deal and remains long time.
She lives in the open. Her house is her
home and she makes it homelike but
she has way of surrounding herself
with tiny bit of yard. a courtyard
perhaps no bigger than a pocket hand
kerchief, yet from which she can draw
her supply of fresh air.
After several months of hard study a
committee of doctors, appointed to stu
dy the clear English skin, pronounced
upon it thus, giving for it's causes a va
riety of things:
First-The habit of tea drinking. Tea,
ii not too strong. warns the stomach.
hushes the system and aids digestion
and circulation.
Second-The diet. which is simple and
easily digested.
Third-The habit of living in the open
air
Fourth-The fashion of wearing large
shoes and generally loose clothing.
These things promote the health and
furnish the material for the clear skin