South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-06-10
Beauty Begins At
Breakfast Table
Do You Dine Wisely or Fool
ishly at Morning Meal7
Advice to Milady.

II any proof Of the far-reaching in
| auence of environment were needed,
| If would only be necessary to invite
| symposium on What 1 Eat for
| Breakfast.
such a revelation as this would
Drove enough TO most OF US, If we
are of the light breakfast brigade
we find il difficult to conceive Of any
morning meal that more than dallies
with a cereal and fruit; while if we
have been brought up in the country
where the men OF the family have
| healthy manual labor 10 perform,
breakfast means to us a hearty, sub
stantial meal. and we would look
asl<ance at our city cousins sparsley
set breakfast table. When L was is.
and visiting away from home and had
set before me every mOrning ham
l. and eggs or a heaping plate of hash,
Tor even broiled steak, always with
potatoes and oatmeal and hot bis
/ cults and griddleCakes. No wonder
was hungry
But. "other times. other manners"
What one should eat for breakfast
depends entirely upon ones mode of
| life. Active outdoor employment re-
ouires substantial. nOurishing food. A
more or less sedentary existence does
not use mp the same amount of VI
talitv. nor conduce to normal func-
| tiOulng OF the ulStSllNt VI SdllSs anu
therefore the stomach should be given
only enough TO replace the daily waste
of the body.
What do you eat for breakfast?
And are your breakfast habits wise
ones2
Beauty begins without any question
at that prosiac organ, the stomach
and if we are to have a clear skin
and bright eyes and that indefinable
latmosphere Of vitality and life"
which is so full of charm, the ques-
ton Of breakfast-and not only OF
breakfast but Of luncheon and dinner
lis one Of infinite Importance.
The average woman does not lead
physically active life. / do not mean
that she does not run up and down
stairs. and sweep and dust and make
beds. and burn her face over the cook
stove She does, bless her. But this
exercises a limited set of muscles, and
while it tires and wearies her, does
not create that healthy demand for
food that is the heritage of the wood
chopper and the man who losses hay
| in the sun.
The heavy breakfast table of my
teens is not for her! Yet, in many
/ cases, because the men folk feel
the need of a hearty morning meal,
| she adopts their menu.
The consequences, far too often, are
sallow, muddy skin, frequent head
aches. trouble with indigestion and
| constipation.
She should reform, So should you,
| if this applies To you!
of course the family-the male
members, at least, are going TO go
right on wanting bacon and eggs and
| fried potatoes, but that need not af-
| feet you in the slightest except that
| if you have to do the broiling and
baking yourself, you will have no
! time for the morning exercises which
would help your health and appear
ance so much. Yet you can transfer
them TO the half-hour before retiring,
and confine your morning reform to
a regulation of your diet
This is what your beauty breakfast
should consist of, if you are busy
housewife: Two glasses of hot water
| on rising: at the table a glass of
orange juice. or an orange, halyed
and served in the skin, or half
grapefruit (nOtice l say orr. Then,
a heaping dish of uncooked cereal and
| cream and some hot, crisp, dry
toast If YOU own a little more avoir-
DUBOIS than you want, omit butter
from your toast, and let it be of the
variety which is Drowned in the Dak-
ing oven, not the toasting oven II
YOU are thin. or just about normal
hut butter it at the table. Toast
which has stood in the hot kitchen
with butter upon it presents to the
stomach an indigestible mass.
That is every bit of breakfast that
YOU need, and you will get from it
more nourishment than your heavier
breakfasts have furnished you, for
Fyour stomach will be able to assimi-
late it more easily.
If Won nrefer a cooked cereal to
the uncooked. be sure that il has been
boiled or steamed at least an hour. 1t
lis an excellent plan TO partl cook
your oatmeal in the double boiler in
the evening after dinner, and then
give il an extra 20 minutes in the
morning with a tiny bit more water
added
This breakfast is an excellent one
for the girl Of Il to IS. only she
should be allowed as much cereal as
she wants. and if she is a very active
little maiden. she might be permitted
two soft-bOiled eggs in addition. Her
system needs more punishment than
If will rauuirp later.