The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-01-05
BUSINESS WOMAN's. LUNCH
Find Happy Mean Seiwesn Under
nourishmcnt and Glu.sony and Eat
Leisurely and Comfortably.


Show me successful business
woman to-day and III point back to
the girl who started out on her career
determined to eat regularly, slowly,
and as well as her purse would per-
nit Genius may thrive in a garnet.
but, remember, stenographer OF clerk
works in twentieth century shop.
and she needs plenty Of fuel to run
her little engine of business acumen!"
AS vel. as her purse would per
NIT"
There's our text, rIiht in that
phrase.
The girl who skimps her luncheon
TO buy jeweled comb IA foolish. Tire
girl who wears shoes run down at the
heels so that she can buy table d'hote
luncheon every noon is glutton. But
somehow, between the two Is a happy
medium, and in that position stands
the sensible. frugal ambitious bust
ness girl.
The proper foundation for sensl-
bic lunch is sensible breakfast.
Whenever see q girl come to the
breakfast with her hat on, calling TO
her mother that she is late, | know
sho will have a bad headache by lunch
time. She sits on the edge of her
chair eats half an apple without
masticating It thoroughly. gulps down
her coffee that was hot when the rest
Of the family ate, but IS now luke
warm-and is there anything worse
than tepid coffeer--swallows great
spoonfuls Of oatmeal without chewing
it-and runs for her car 1t Is all over
in five minutes.
by noon her employer wonders i'm.
patiently why Miss Jones always has
> headache At noon she starts out
faint and dizzy. turns her back on
plain simple food, and eats some
fancy dish that appeals to her aching
eyes, not TO her starving lody. At
night she does not care whether she
has dinner or not-she Just wants 10
20 to bed. In year or so. she breaks
down from the strain OF business life
II anyone dared to say It was a case
OF malnutritiun or OF actual starva.
tlon. mother and daughter would be
shocked.
But in plain English that Is Just
what caused the breakdown.
No engineer runs n machine without
feeding II coal and oil. No business
man can neglect his digestive organs
without paying IA terrific penalty. Yet
tho girl OF IS earning her first salary
downtown" imagines she can beat
the record Of the engineer and fool her
digestive organs. 1t Is SO much moro
fun to buy a new belt pin than a
wholesome. nourlshing lunch-when
you are new In the business world.
And by and by, you reach the point
where neither pins or anything else
can make you happy--because your
digestion is ruined, and the headache
has you in It's grip,
Start the day right. Eat your
breakfast slowly and eat enough to
fortify yourself for the days work.
Find out the beverage which is best
suited to your system, and use 1t, even
II II Is nothing more than boiling
milk DO not think that because your
mother and her mother before her
drank coffee for breakfast, you must
drink It. II you do not like fruit, do
not think you must cat 1t just because
tho girl next door tells you It is the
correct thing to do.
The lunch hour is not merely time
for recreation. rest, gossip and shop
Ting excursions. II is the time when
You should fire up your engine for tho
afternoon run. II is not topic to DO
treated iigltly-this question Of what
he wage.carncr must eat
DO not eat your lunch in ycur Of
fee, unless the weather makes II abb
sclutely impossible for you to go out,
DO not allow n lunch room to grow
stale on you. As soon as you feel that
the cooking all tastes alike, 1t is time
for you to find another place to eat.
And then seek quiet, rather than a
noisy. crowded Toom.-Anna Steele
Richardson