BREAKFAST IN BED.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 76, 26 September 1908, Page 11

BREAKFAST IN BED.

The habit of breakfasting in bed (notes an exchange) should be condemned for more reasons than the common ones that it leads to laziness in the individual and i to extra work for the servant. Unless, one is to spend the whole morning in bed the breakfast taken before rising means that tho morning bath must bo taken when the system is least able to stand any shock ; in other words, when' all tho blood is drawn to the stomach vessels. Within a few minutes of the taking of food the process of digestion begins, and a full blood supply is needed by all the, organs of digestion. To ensura this full supply the skin vessels arc partially depleted of their usual amount of blood. Just in tho middle of this process the morning tub is taken, and whether hot or .cold, the skin must react to the rubbing down that follows if one is to escapo a chill. _ If the proper reaction takes place a portion of the blood needed by tho abdominal vessels must forsake those regions and flow to tho, skin. This means that the process of digestion is interrupted, resulting in flatulency, headaches, and dyspepsia. It mal:e3 little difference whether the breakfast taken is a hearty British one or simply toast and tea ; the slightest amount of food •in tho stomach will set the digosive organism at work, and tho bath,' following immediately aftsr a breakfast, no matter how slight, is simpy an invitation to symptoms of dyspepsia to appear.

An M.P. was taking his two little daughters over the British Museum They stood in awed silence before one of the mummies. At last the elder whispored to her father, "Why is the old woman wrapped up in bandages? Did she dip of an accident?" Before the M.P. could reply the younger girl said, "Oh, yes ; she must have been run over by a. motor-car. There's the number— 'B.C. 1461.' " Storeman — "What kind of a brush would you like?" Small Boy — "Have you got any with soft backs?"