“NO BREAKFAST” CRAZE

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 196, 15 May 1926, Page 24

“NO BREAKFAST” CRAZE

There have been times lately, says «v writer in the London "Daily Mail,” when I have almost begun to wonder if I am the only person left who takes breakfast. Men whom I had never previously suspected of abstention remark that they feel in urgent need of lunch "because 1 never touch breakfast,” and women confess to being even more ravenous about 1 o'clock. "I just have a cup of tea and some grape fruit,” says one, pitying you in (ho grossness of your appetite on waking. “How on earth you can eat eggs and bacon in the morning is beyond me,” savs another, shuddering. Are we slowly but surely drifting towards a general adoption of the French peit dejeunei plan of coffee and a roll first thing in the morning, followed bv a substantial dejeuner in the middle d the day: It begins to look uncommonly like it. The reasons? Well, dancing and the desire of women to be slim have a great deal to with it. I should say. Dancing makes people hungry and they wan some sort of supper before going to ben with the result that they have lit 1 la or no appetite for breakfast a few hourx later. Eggs and bacon have become a very popular dish among those w*r slay up till somewhere between mH night and 3 o’c'ock in the morning. Women’s craze to be slim is making them very careful about how much they’ eat and what they eat. and apparently the meal that most women feel they can best do without is breakfast. A cun of China tea w ; thnu( sugar. a scrap of dry toast, and perhaps a little frnit--1 hat is all many women allow themselves nri whi tn go through the rigours nf tho morning. The no-hreakfasters are scornful about breakfasters: they are very much better, so thev vow. though doin'* without breakfast —and so would yon be. too. if vou would but follow their healthy example. they assure y’ou. Well norhans thev arc right. Perhaps I would fool better if mv breakfast were reduced to, say. an apple and one small fiot of tea. I have a verv good mind tn ry it.