The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-03-19

which ones work must more or less
interfere.
Many eat light meal at neon, be-
cause 1t Is not always convenient for
them to get at noon what they call
"a square meal" 1t must be admitted
that if soup and meat and pie and half
a dozen other dishes are Necessary ~ "
good meal, there is some force in
this argument. Those who take this
position think they must have sub
stantial morning meal, because they
cannot have another square meal
till the evening. In cases where the
time for lunch is very short and the
afternoons work heavy, this may be
tie best plan. Then few apples only
may be eaten, even without leaving
ones post or while taking needed ex-
ercise in walking.
We know that violent emotion stops
digestion completely. Appetite always
leaves one on the advent of extraor-
binary fear or joy. Mental activity of
any kind is evidently inconsistent with
good digestion. Now when one eats
full meal in the morning and pro-
ceeds to work energetically, it is un-
reasonable to suppose that, for IN
stance, a breakfast of fried eggs, pork
chops and fresh bread would be colp-
pletely digested by IL or 1 o'clock,
another meal is added to the burden
of the digestive system, followed by a
strenuous afternoons work, it is uni
reasonable to suppose that normal dill
gestive conditions should follow-or
good work. 1t is generally admitted
in the morning, and the eating Of q
heavy breakfast retards brain work
When the stomach is filled with
food, especially if it be of food difficult
to digest, there is flow of blood to
that organ with corresponding flow
of nervous energy for the process Of
digestion. This necessarily implies a
depletion of the brain. The man who
eats a breakfast of pancakes, coffee
and bacon, must not expect to do his
best mental work.
have found hundreds who have &C.
cidentally discovered that they feel
better, work better and altogether en-.
joy better health by emitting break.
fast. have found that many, like
myself, before they acquired normal
appetite, often ate two suppers, that
is, they felt hungry, on returning, per
haps at II o'clock, from the theater
or church, but when they realized that
eating then was injurious and stopped
it, they felt less desire for food the
following morning, showing that un'
der certain circumstances, the desire
for food is not safe indication of the
need of it (the desire being abnor.
mall; for if one needed to eat at II
o'clock, that need would certainly not
be lessened by. seven hours sleep.
have talked with many who have
discontinued regular breakfast, at my
suggestion, and never have l known
one to try it for year and resume
the eating of three full meals a day.
The gain in health, the lighter feel.
ing in the morning and especially the
great improvement in the capacity fol
work in the forenoon, have induced
them to make it permanent. This last.
mentioned advantage has always been
especially pronounced in the case of
literary workers. l have, however,
known many who have tried the two
meal plan for short time, but have
not adopted it permanently. The ad.
vent of the light breakfast foods has
done much to overcome the American
habit of eating heavy morning. meal.
The most frequent objection, by
those who try emitting breakfast, is
that they have a severe headache or
a distressing feeling of emptiness dur.
ing the forenoon, followed by a raven.
sous appetite. If the digestive system
were normal such feelings would not
exist, even after the omission of sew
eral meals, as experience with pro.
tracted fasting proves. Natural hunger
is persistent desire TO. food, not un.
pleasant whee there . prospect of
satisfying it, but It produces no head.
ache, no pain. Abnormal appetite may
be suppressed by eating, but the alb.
normal condition it indicates is not
thus changed. To eat very slowly, at
fixed hours, of few articles, with lit
tie liquid and dry food, will aid in
overcoming abnormal appetite.
Having decided to adopt the two.
meal plan, the best course is to
change gradually, as advised in all
other cases in which change is to
be made. Reduce the third meal in
amount, gradually, till drink is finally
substituted for solid food. Thus sup.
pose you are in the habit of eating an
ordinary breakfast, eat only a few
slices of toast or little fruit or
cereal flakes, and reduce the quantity
gradually, till warm drink of cereal
coffee, weak cocoa or lemonade, sweet
ened with saccharine rather than
sugar, is finally substituted.
Having adopted a definite course,
pursue it Systematically. Fix in
mind the thought that the change
you are making Is good one,
and entertain no regrets at not
having the accustomed depressing, dis
ease producing meal. Fix the mind
on something else than the meal
Don't stay in the dining-room; go out
into the morning air, to the library or
the Office. The necessity of catching
an early train regularly has cured
many of the habit of eating heavy
breakfast.
The cases in which the two-meal
plan would not be beneficial are, !
think, rare in persons of nature years,
and for those far beyond middle life
it is especially advisable. I have late
ly observed case in which an anemic
young woman of "a, a stezographer,