The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-31
SOCIETY.
BY ANNIE PERRY REID.
Bell Telephone 1897.
THE IDEAL BREAKFAST.

ut is more important that the break
fast should be a substantial and suit
able meal than any other of the day"
said DIR. E. II. BARLEY of the Long Is
land Medical college, says the New York
Tribune. 1--WE don't want heavy break
fast, but it should be one from which
we get quick returns in force and energy.
The old smile of comparing the body with
night the engineer closes the draft. banks
his fire and let's it smolder through the
hours. In the morning he shakes the
CRATE and opens the draft, but this is
not enough He must put on fresh fuel,
and he prefers something that will ignite
quickly. In the morning both body and
mind are sluggish and vitality low. 1t
needs not only both fresh air and exer-
else, but also food, and food that will
digest quickly and furnish speedy
stimulus, bring color to the cheek,
warmth to the extremities, elasticity to
the step and alertness to the mental
faculties.
IN their anxiety for this quick slim
illus many people take hot water or al
coholic drinks in the morning. But the
universal morning stmulant is coffee.
The active principle of coffee Is caf-
feline. Under the influence of this sub
stance thought flows more easily, the
mental faculties are quickened, and feel
ings of 1assitude and drowslness pass
away. For this reason 1t is a bad night
drink and a good morning drink. One
cup of coffee in the morning will not
hurt any healthy person. Several cups
are undoubtedly excess, and the practice
of children going to school or men and
women going to work on a breakfast of
coffee alone Is absolutely to be con-
demned. Coffee taken copiously in the
morning stimulates the activities and
satisfies the craving for food, but the
person who makes his breakfast of 1t or
who drives himself to work on coffee
when he is tired is setting the pace that
kills. Tea is very similar In all its effects
to coffee. Chocolate is a true food, es-
pecially when made with milk. It con-
tains from 80 to 60 per cent Of fat and
Is very nourishing. But 1t is a sedative,
not a stimulant. It produces feeling
of drowsiness and heaviness, which
makes 1t a good night drink for wake
full persons. This comes from the cocoa
butter which is not easily absorbed into
the system and so lies In the stomach
for a time Any one who took chocolate
as constantly as most persons do tea
and coffee would have indigestion and
dyspepsia. Taken occasionally, 1t is a
nutritious food.
I'VE do not want beefstealz in the
morning. It's return in force and en-
ergy is too slow. The very best of all
breakfast meats is bacon. There are
few persons who have what we call
fat Indigestion who cannot take bacon.
Blu every one else, even babies a year
and a half old, can take 1t healthfully,
especially for breakfast. 1t stimulates
the gastric juices to do their work of
digestion and we get quick return
from 1t in force and energy. An eminent
English surgeon has said that the best
preparation for hard days work is a
good breakfast with plenty of bacon
1.-The ideal breakfast is one cup of
coffee, cereal with sugar and milk
and bacon. We get the quickest return
in energy from sugar, fat and starch
The bone and muscle building elements
are slower in their action, and we can
take them at other meals when the fur
mace Is fairly started for the day."