The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-06-05
WOMEN AND BREAKFAST.
Thin Girl Must Go In for Hearty
Breakfast and the Too-Stput
Must Not.

For the woman to whom nature
has been overgenerous in the way OF
flesh, and to her whose sole desire is
10 cover up bones and fill out
hollows, the breakfast habit is
alike matter for serious considera-
ton
Extremes meet in their cases, and
the woman of avoirdupois may stretch
forth 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 COM
Portable. Extreme thinness may not
be slightly, but it 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 to 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
pats everything in sight. The absti-
nence has done her good and whetted
her appetite.
For goodness sake, dear" says the
bther woman's friend, what have you
been doing to yourself? You are moth
Ing but shadow; why don't you see
2 doctor?"
And the thin woman is alarmed.
Nothing but bones and hollows," says
the mirror, and straightway to the
doctor she HES herself. Medicine and
diet list come home with her, and
for two 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 from
anything more substantial than a bis
cult and a glass of hot water, fruit
if 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 difficult, far,
than that Of the too thin woman who
signs for rounded cheeks and dimpled
chin. 1t is irony of fate that to the
former the good things of life mean
much She is fond of luxury, and
luxuries for her "diffuse their pleas
ures only to destroy" She is fond OF
ease, and ease is her undoing, and of
high living-good eating-"her over
towering knell.'
But for the thin girl there is more
hope. To be sure, she must change
her WAYS also. She. too, frequently
has fondness for the wrong foods.
She dotes on sour pickles and soda
crackers and tea and toast, and never
eats any breakfast at all. That Is
where she makes a mistake. Break
fast should be the heartiest meal OF
the day for one who wishes to add
flesh 1t doesn't so much matter what
sort it is, so there's plenty of 1T, with
glass of cold water taken 20 min
utes before. Almost any course break
fast is suitable if it is palatable and
properly assimilated, eaten slowly in
good, cheerful company, Avoid the
solitary breakfast.
To be hungry in the morning au-
ours good health, and "to be or not to
be" should be the guiding star of both
the lean and the stout the former to
satisfy her hunger unstintingly, the
latter with as little food as possible.