Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-01-28

Cooperative Breakfasts
MY wife's all ~ruined,' a working man
bemoaned. ut 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 l got home at night the
house would be warm and clean, the table
set for suppe and supper itself would be
simmering In the pot. She was q loyal wife
and | worked hard for her.
But now she is different. She's never
home when l get home from work and IL
she Is, she says oh, whatIl we eat and
picks up the can opener. Mornings she
stays in bed and / go down town to the
Greeks and sit up to the trough with the
rest of the boys to get my breakfast. And
do 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. 1t amt right, l tell you, and / don't
think women are doing their share nova
days when they keep house as though they
were invalids."
What could a cooking school teacher
who didn't know very much say to that?
Could she say that the wife was lazy or
that the husband was an unreasonable
brute Especially when the cooking school
teacher liked to sleep pretty we'll and to
eat pretty well!
But the breakfast subject touches a vi
brant chord because l enjoy breakfast
foods fruit, mush, eggs, toast. Breakfast
theories-that many a day has been ruined
because the morning coffee was cold or
the bacon greasy or the pancakes heavy (;
that 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 u~nmuddled.
Everyone doubtless has favorite and de-
fined varieties Of breakfasts. l have my
own.
toast and milk. Breakfast with my room
mate in an apartment before we both run
to work, calls for quartered oranges, coffee
and burnt toast. Il make the toast) Break
fast on the diner must include a cooked
cereal because those colored gentlemen
surely can put forth such as cream OF
wheat, "Oh Ma honeyl' Breakfast In the
spring-ah, rhubarb sauce and bacon.
Breakfast on Sunday. ham with waffles.
Breakfast with my father, always eggs.
Breakfast with my mother and we crunch
shredded wheat biscuits. Breakfast on the
farm and we have "E Pluribus Unum."
Breakfast is a wonderful meall Now I'm
trying to be inspiring to the ladies, but
here Is a cracker for the gentlemen-that
breakfast Is not a affair. Its
much more successful IL 1t is a one-woman
and one-man and four-children affair. In
other words, cooperation Is essential.
There Is something about a mans touch on
the coffee pot that imparts sublime quail
ties to Its contents. | don't know why, and
children can watch toast so beautifully !
What the Smith breakfast Is, would not
at all effect what yours Is to be. If Mr..
Smith, who sits In an office all day, has
toast and coffee before he boards the seven
fifty trolley, that's no reason that your
John" should have toast and coffee be-
fore he goes out to chop down trees In a
lumber camp or heave coal in a mine. The
kind Of work which a person does must
determine the kind of breakfast which Is
needed. A man who works out of doors
all day, who has only a cold lunch at
noon must have a hearty breakfasts to give
him energy. He must have something to
stick to his ribs" otherwise he'll be grow
ing thin and lank and burning up his own
body tissue for energy instead OF food.
On the other hand, IL you are to give the
office man a lumberjack's breakfast, you'll
sink him.. He'll likely get dyspepsia, a
dulled brain and a bay window. Here are
three patterns for breakfasts, and knowing
your own conditions, you can determine
the right kind OF breakfast.
1. Light Breakfast-Fruit, bread stuff,
beverage.
2. Medium Breakfast-Fruit, breakfast
food. bread stuff, beverage.
3. Hearty Breakfast-Fruit, breakfast
food, eggs or potatoes, bacon, etc, bread
stuff, beverage.
In everyone OF the patterns I've included
fruit, as ! believe that Is the essential food