The daily sentinel., 1912-01-17
WHY YOU SHOULDN'T EAT
YOUR BREAKFAST ALONE.

Fight that early morning Crouch
it's bad for your health. Don't cod
die it by taking your breakfast alone,
with the specious explanation that
you wish TO spare the rest of the
family the unpleasant spectacle OF
your irTitability. Forcibly Danish
that grouch-the result of a sluggish
circulation. especially on winter
mornings-by breakfasting with the
whole family. with as large a crowd
as possible, and setting an example of
cheerfulness, even gayety. whether
you feel that way or not
Medical authorities agree that eat
ing your breakfast alone, especially
in cold weather, is most prenicious
habit BY this method you can soon
develop a morning crouch into a case
of chronic misanthropy.
The cure is case of fighting the
devil with fire" Get such a crouch
against that morning crouch by
main-force assumption of gayety and
companionship that it simply has 10
loose its grip and disappear.
AT first it will be a difficult task,
for when you get out of your warm
bed on a cold winter morning, ali
your blood vessels contracted during
additionally sluggish by changing
your warm bed for the chill air of
the room, you feel miserable and
don't care who knows II. In fact,
you have a fiendish desire to rub Il
in"
So it's case of fight. Jump out
of bed and start the battle the mo-
ment your feet touch the floor Dance
about your room, rub your body and
| limbs briskly to get your blood cir
culating. The arteries and veins, con-
tracted by sleep and further contract
| ed by the first plunge out of the
warm bed. have to adapt themselves
| to new activities. This Is why YOU
| grumble and growl like a bear with
| a sore head, and kick the dog''-if
one Is handy-and vow that you'll
take your breakfast in solitary gloom.
| Deep breathing and brisk exercise
will start the blood vessels to expand
ing. Above all. don't miss the morn
ing bath. Don't shock or punish
yourself by taking it unduly cold
a cool shower, or spray, with brisk
rubbing meanwhile, will set your
pulses bounding and give you a stran-
gle hold on old Mr.. Morning Crouch.
And, if you can, go for five or
ten minute gentle run or brisk walk
before sitting down to breakfast. The
exercise win expand your blood yes
sells and give you a more cheerful
view of life.
Choose the sunniest and brightest
/ room in the house. and turn it into
your breakfast room. The sun has
a wonderful effect on temper.
If your children irritate you in
| the rnnrufDp dienpnsa Nuitb tbair con,
Ipany, but do not remove yourself from
the presence OF your wife or other
| grown-ups.
There is no need to chatter or dis
cuss things, however; the good old
fashioned plan of the husband behind
| his newspaper and the wife reading
| her letters is an excellent one.
Women are constitutionally more
irritable than men, but training
makes them hide their feeling better.
The grumpiest age in man is from
30 to so, and If that is your period
of life, all the more reason for keep
| ing the enemy subdued.
A medical authority has obtained
several instances of the fact tnat ir-
ritability in the morning is more com
mon in winter than IN summer In
most cases the wrong method OF
curing or hiding this bad temper was
found to obtain.
Il make it rule to breakfast
alone in the winter" said a we'll
| known man of letters.
From November to April | reso-
lutely refuse to eat with other people
in the mornings.
For one thing, am decidedly
| bad-iempered on dull. cold mornings
| household usually has cold. And
anyone with a cold is impossible at
breakfast time"
A married man in business said
that he always felt twice as cross
on winter mornings as on summer
ones.
Il somehow always get to bed lat
er in the winter he explained. "and
so. getting up is always a trial.
The morning both is a pennance,
instead of a pleasure. and the break
fast room-however long and bright
| ly a fire has been burning always
seems chilly.
| Il like to breakfast alone and in
silence, and | never discourage my
wife if she wants breakfast in bed -
A business woman also endorsed
this opinion, explaining that a luke
warm breakfast as was often the
case on winter mornings, was not
conducive to improving a temper al
ready spoiled by the annoyance of
dressing in a chilly bedroom.
Coddling the morning crouch
seems to be untversal-and eating
breakfast alone. worse yet in bed
means that before long you'll be in
the misanthrope class.