Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-09

| The modern tempo is never better
shown than In the failure of many city
people to eat breakfast at home.
Thousands of men leave for work
without the solace of q good breakfast
depending on hasty fling at food when
they get downtown.
! Women, too, go to work without forti-
flying themselves with a warm break
fast, relying on the restaurant across
the street.
However good the downtown eating
places may be, the fact remains that
practically every one who patronizes
them for the morning meal eats in toe
great hurry.
Above all, they miss the peace and
quiet which properly balanced home
life gives. No doubt this is the solution
of the matter: They do not lead real
home lives.
Instead Of getting up early enough to
get leisurely breakfast and to enjoy
1t with conversation, they arise at the
/ last possible moment, with scarcely
enough time to get down to work.
Lack Of breakfast goes back even
farther. If they had gone to bed at a
! reasonable hour the evening before, they
would have been able to get up early
enough to enjoy a nice breakfast at
home.
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No meal has the happiness possibili-
ties Of breakfast if one puts a bit OF
intelligence into the matter and gets a
really good one and allows ones self
| plenty OF time to eat 1t.
To be hurried at home is even worse
than being hustled downtown, for in
the crowded districts one expects it.
Maybe that is the secret Of the thing
Most people have too great q respect for
the idea OF home to eat in too great
haste. They had rather shut the front
door and eat breakfast downtown il
they must do so in hurry.
There is no real reason. however, for
missing the treat of a real home break
fast, served up leisurely, with enough
time to taste life naturally. Life, as
we'll as food, must be tasted II one
wants to secure its best benefits.
One need not be an epicure to enjoy
good breakfast. 1t Is not the amount
of food eaten which counts, but the
attitude toward what Is eaten that
brings the healthy glow of appreciation
Of the good things of life.
All these thousands Of men and
women whom one sees in the restau-
rants hastily gobbling coffee and break
! last food, looking anxiously at the clock
jumping out to make. run for the
office and get there late
They might just as easily eat al
home like gentlemen and gentlewomen
If they would get up early enough and
get into the habit. There is no escap-
ing the force of habit. and when one
has eaten downtown for several years
it is difficult to get back into old-time
ways of food consumption.
Most of the hasty diners have back
grounds of true home ways, so that il
| would not be especially difficult for
them to get into the habit of eating a
proper breakfast. And the benefits
would be many.
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In the first place, there is no place
like home, as the old song says. Nc
matter how good your restaurant, 1t is
| not home, nor does it have the aspects
Of home.
Time is the essence OF most things
| and in none more than the home break
fast. Perhaps the gobbled meal al
home is but little better than the
hastily swallowed breakfast downtown,
but there is no occasion for the former
because ones home is often the one
place in the world where the average
person need not be hurried If he does
not want to be hurried.