The Bozeman courier., 1927-01-21
TABLE TALKS
Co-Operativs breakfasts
Jeanette Beyer-

cooperative Breakfasts
MY wife's all ruined" a working man
DemOaned. 1t used to be she was a good
wife and every morning would have a hot
breakfast to send me cheered to the worlds
work. When 1 got home at night the
mouse would be warm and clean, the table
seI IOr supper and supper itself would be
slmmertng in the pot She was loyaI vvifo
and worked hard for her.
But now she is different She's never
nome when | get home from work and if
sne is, she says oh, what'n we eat and
picks up the can opener Mornings she
stays in bed and l go down town to the
creeks and sit up to the trough with the
rest OF the boys to get my breakfast And
40 you know that the men who eat down
at that joint mornings are the married
ones, whose wives are at home in bed like
mine. IL amt right, tell you, and I don't
Inlnk women are doing their share nova
9ays Wnen Ghey keep house as though they
were invalids."
What could a cooking school teacher
VINO dldnt know very much say to that !?
Gould she say that the wife was law or
LSat Snat 5he husband was an unreasonable
brute especially when the cooking school
teacher liked to sleep pretty well and to
eat pretty well!
But the breakfast subject touches a vi
6rant chord because l enjoy breakfast
foods fruit, mush, eggs, toast Breskf
theOrles-that many day has been ruined
because the morning coffee was cold or
the bacon greasy or the pancakes heavy :
CndL the breakfast table and company is
the most delightful of the day because we
come to 1t with clear heads and refreshed
bodies; that breakfast is a bright start
on the clean new day yet unmuddled.
Everyone doubtless has favOrite and de-
fined varieties of breakfasts. l have my
own. -
There is my hotel breakfast-grapefruit
! toast and milk. Breakfast with nv room
mate In an apartment before we both run
| to work, calls for quartered oranges coffee
Durnf bn oGfA h
rasC on the diner must include a cooked
cereal because those cOlOred gentlemen
surely can can put forth such as cream of
\ wheat, "Oh Ma honey 2" Break in tbe
spring-ah, rhubarb sauce and bacon,
/ Breakfast on Sunday, ham with waffles
Breakfast with my father, always eggs
BreakIast with my mother and we crunch
/ shredded wheat biscuits. Breakfast on the
farm and we have "E Pluribus URum.''
Breakfast is a wonderful meal! Now I'm
Trying 10 be inspiring to the ladies' but
mere Is a cracker for the gentlOmen-that
| breakfast is not one-Woman affair It's
much more successful il it is q One-woman
and one-man and fOur-children affair In
oGner words, cooperation is essential
4,ll aneIe as something about mans touch on
the coffee pot that imparts sublime ouali-
/ ties TO its contents. don't know why, and
| children can watch toast so beautifully
| What the Smith breakfast is, would not
| az all erect what yours is to be- If Mr.
II Smith, who sits in an office All dav. has
| toast and coffee before he boards the seven
| nfty trolley, that's no reason that your
II John should have toast and coffee be-
f0re ne goes out to chop down trees ID q
II lumber camp or heaye coal in a mine The
| kind OF work which a person does must
II determine the kind Of breakfast which Is
needed. man who works out Of doors
all day, who has only a cold lunch az
\ noon must have a hearty breakfast to give
MIN energy. he must have something "a
stick to his ribs" otherwise he'll he crow.
ing thin ana lank and burning IN his own
body tissue for energy instead Of food.
On the other hand, IL you are to give the
0tIice man lumberjack's brea kfssf vou'Il
sink him. He'll likely get dvsDeDsia 3
dulled brain and q bay Wiadov. Here are
three patterns for breakfasts, and KNOWING )
your own conditions you can defermins
the right kind OF breakfast
l. Light Breakfast-Fruit, bread stuff
beverage.
2. Medium Breakfast-Fruit. breakeas,
food, bread stuff, beverage.
3. Hearty Breakfast-Fruit. breakfas,
food, eggs or potatoes, bacon, etc. brasd.
stuff, beverage.
In everyone Of the patterns I've incIuded
fruit, as believe that is the essential food
for any kind OF breakfast. Fruit acids arr
refreshing and laxative besides being a.
abundant In the elusive minerals and VI
gamins By al means have some kind of
fruit. The dried fruits, .Drunes aDricofa ans
peaches are not so expensive. Canned frSiif
rasp berries, apples, pineapples nav ~
used. Use fresh fruit now and then zueh
rs oranges and apples. since thev arc r,ovs
abundant in vitamins
The bread stuff may be bread and buffar
Il TOAST muK1inss Waffies, hot biscuits I pre-
1er t0ass "a tne mornings because Il isn't
necessary % s1art preparations 50 early