THE BEST MEAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 103, 4 May 1925, Page 12

THE BEST MEAL.

"XO-UKEAKKAST- PKOPLE XKRVV. "You would like your breakfast about, nine? 1 hope yon will not mm 1 having it alone, but "we never eat anything before luncheon." My hostess did not intend to make mc feel inferior, says a "Daily Mai." correspondent, but the words rather chilled mo. and 1 felt compelled to say that tea and toast in my room would be ample. But 1 was disappointed. I love break.fast. 1 disagree violently .with all those doctors who attack it. for T am doubtful if they are physiologically right, and F am quite sure that psychologically they are wrong. The "no-breakfast" people. T have noticed, are usually ''nervy.'' They explain their fast by references to modern medical opinion or to Continental habits. They say that they are much better without breakfast. Perhaps they are. But it is a little strange that not until they have hud their luncheon nre they abie to behave like happy, healthy human beings.

Breakfast, to many people, is the best meal of the day. There are not great differences between the nature of the food eaten at luncheon and at dinner, but if you miss breakfast you miss food that you do not get at any other time. You miss the flavoury, milky coffee, the well-cooked porridge, the crisp bacon, the poached eggs, the delicate thin toast, the marmalade.

Breakfast should he everybody's meal. You may excuse the nervous dyspeptic who dislikes the dinner of several courses or dreads the large meal in the middle of the day's work.

But no one minds if you miss a course at breakfast. It is an elastic meal. Its informality is pleasing. And the sight of the pleasant table, with all its good English things, is Usually enough to vanquish the depression of the

"nerw" man or woman who has decided, after all, to make the breakfast experiment.