Evening star., 1922-09-11
Now It's Real Food, Not Promises,
for Breakfast.

| Some years ago an immigrant
gained entrance to this Land of the
| Free. He agitator, and SO
! successful was his propaganda that
, in an incredibly short time he had
an enormous following, largely
among our best people" So widely
was his influence spread. in fact. so
strongly intrenched his doctrines,
that those who stubbornly remained
| outside the cult took on a tinge OF
! ignominy Now, however, red-blood-
| ed Americanism is rising in protest
| and it appears that the alien-whose
name is Continental Breakfast-is in
danger of being deported as an unde-
sirable. Seventy-three per cent of
the American doctors appealed to IN
the matter by a medical journal nave
declared unequivocally for American
breakfasts for Americans. And their
editorial fellow citizens are support
ing them almost to man.
DO you remember" the Rockford
Ill) ReEiSter-GaZette inquiries. tine
campaign for the breakfastleSs day
The theory was that you'd be health
Ter. happier and generally more ef-
ficient if you took a mere bite OF
crust in the morning. or. better sun
ate nothing at all. Now. reports
the New York World. with the re-
servance we are asked to undo IT
and return to the old substantial
meal Expert medical opinion
took away the traditional American
breakfast, and expert medical opinion
now restores it," a satisfying indi-
cation to the New Haven Register
that the world do move.
Hereafter. the Philadelphia Bulletin
exults, when the real autocrat OF
the breakfast table tries to JUSTIFY
her bantamweight meal with mai
appropriate quotation from Othello
about men putting an enemy into
their mouths to steal away their
brains, the husband can retort cour-
teously" that scientific authority has
established that the cerebrum needs
calories aplenty; in other words, that
brain workers need a good square
meal before tackling the daily task
of solving the worlds problems
This because it is especially for
brain workers that the American
Medical Review of Reviews is trying
to establish a puncture-proof PM
losophy in the matter OF breaKlast
And because of the philanthroptc ef-
forts of the medical journal the Hart
ford Courant rejoices that at last
the man who works with his brains
instead of with his hands may come
into his own, or, more accurately. MS
own may come into him, for medical
science has reached the point Where
a show of hands indicates that the
brain worker will be permitted to
have actual food for breakfast
happy state which the paper observes
in passing has not occurred before
in forty years.
The idea of these physicians, as the
Waterbury Republican explains 1t.
seems to be that the brain worker
needs to coal up well in the morn
ing" for. the Cleveland Plain Dealer
agrees, "in the morning the human
stomach is empty. The human engine
needs fuel to begin it's operations Al
no other hour of the twenty-four Is
the human system so in need of stok-
ingI' While admittedly the man
who starts the day with a handful OF
sawdust and a dish of prunes is not
open to argument" there Is some
consolation in knowing that he can
no longer look with contempt on his
brothers who eat man-size break
fast, even though it may include
sirloin or a slab of huckleberry pie.
Once more American good sense
has triumphed over the wave OF
effete continentalism," which has
been menacing that good American
breakfast. and the reason, as the
Brooklyn Eagle sees it, is that I'VE
Americans are not going to dawdle
through a forenoon. We're going to
work with steam-engine energy. An
empty stomach rarely does much
hustling in world of economic
equivalents"
Unfortunately however, it is again
demonstrated that there are people
in this country who never approve
Of anything, and we find that those
doctors-that grabbed 13 per cent
who declared that the way to start
the day wrong is to eat, have their
counterpart in the editors who raise
objections to a return to the Amer
lean breakfast. 1T is not SO much
lack Of size as something else that
is the matter with the American
breakfast" asserts the New York
Tribune; rather 1t is the fact that
it must be had "on the eat-and-run
principle" At least this Is true 30
far as New Workers. are concerned.
the New York Globe agrees. and
while a heavy breakfast may be an
excellent idea for normal America"
It won't work in the cities. The
light breakfast" the Globe says, has
been the New Yorker's lifeline.
Lingering for the marginal i've min
uteS OF slumber, he munche0 briefly.