The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-04-30
WOMEN AND BREAKFAST.
Thin Girl Must Go In for Hearty
Breakfast and the Too-stout
Must Not.

For the woman to whom nature
nas been overgenerous In the way o.
desh, and to her whose sole desire Il
to cover up bones and I'LL ou1
hollows, the breakfast habit II
alike a matter for serious considera
tion.
Extremes meet in their cases, and
the woman OF avoirdupois may stretch
forth q sympathizing hand to her
painfully thin sister, writes Cara
Moore, In the New York Mail. The
latter, the thin woman, has one point
the better, she is generally more corn.
Portable. Extreme thinness may not
be slightly. but 1t is not uncomfortable.
You are getting actually fat" con-
siderately declares an interested
friend, and then worry begins The
object Of solicitation peers anxiously
into her mirror Yes, double chin
begins 70 appear. She takes reef
In her corsets and sets out to starve
herself. For two whole days she takes
nothing but lemons and crackers. BY
that, she has become so famished
that she decides to eat this time and
start over again tomorrow. Then she
eats everything in sight The absti-
nence has done her good and whetted
her appetite.
For goodness sake, DEAR" says the
other womans friend, what have you
been doing to yourself? You are moth
Ing but a shadow; why don't you see
doctor?"
And the thin woman is alarmed.
Nothing but bones and hollows, says
the mirror, and straightway to the
doctor she hies herself Medicine and
diet list come home with her, and
for INC days the thin girl religiously
follows the Doctors prescription. BY
that time she has decided that she'd
rather be as thin as a rail than to do
without pickles and lobster Newburg.
and everything that isn't In the list |
she Graves.
Seriously, though, the breakfast is
conceded by the most advanced physi- |
clans to be the important meal OF |
the day. That is. to breakfast or not |
to breakfast, according as it is flesh |
production or flesh reduction that is
required.
1t is not advisable to ignore the
morning meal entirely In either case.
but the stout woman who wishes to
regain the sylph-like proportions Of
her girlhood days must desist ssSrs
anything more substantial thaa bis
cult and glass Of hot water, fruit
II desired. Also, she must pay strict
attention to the entire diet, and for
that there is no hard and fast rule.
She must find out for herself or from
her family physician the things from
which to abstain.
The way Of the stout woman who
would be thin is more difiicult, far,
than that OF the too thin woman who
sighs for rounded cheeks and dimpled
chin. II is irony Of fate that to the
former the good things OF life mean
much. She is fond OF luxury, and
uxuries for her "diffuse their pleas
Tres only to destroy" She is fond OF
Ease. and ease is her undoing, and Of
high liying-good eating-"her over !
towering knell"
But for the thin girl there is more
ope, To be sure, she must change
er ways also. She, too, frequently
as a fondness for the wrong foods. T
he dotes on sour pickles and soda
rackers and tea and toast, and never
ats any breakfast at all. That is
here she makes mistake. Break
ast should be the heartiest meal Of a
he day for one who wishes to add =
esh. It doesn't so much matter what +
'rt It is, so there's plenty Of it, with !,
glass Of cold water taken 20 min j
tes before Almost any course break J,
lst is suitable If it is palatable and :,
roperly assimilsted. eaten slowly in /,
bod. cheerful company. Avoid the n
,litary breakfast. :,
To be hungry in the morning au- q,
irs good health, and ito be or not to
y should be the guiding star of both 90
Ie lean and the stout, the former to =
Itisfy her hunger unstintingly, the -
tier with as little food as possible. -