THE FRENCH BREAKFAST

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 27 January 1923, Page 16

THE FRENCH BREAKFAST

Toast and tea for breakfast or eggs, beefsteak, muffins, pancakes, aud coffee— which is the proper regimen!' adks a writer in the "New York Herald." The dbctors. disagree, as'iisuiil, but the statement that the stomach, after a night's sleep, needs plenty of food is pretty generally accepted by them, became then, if ever, digestive faculty is lively. As a matter of exper;en.ie, the bift, strong mah is likely to limit bis breakfast to coffee and a roll and tbe weakling eats thrdugh several stiff courses. It is probable that neither one is dqing the best by himself. The coffee and roll map. waits too long before his luncheon, and the gourmand with a weak digestion feels the sharp pangs of hunger at the meridian hour. Both would do well to take a leaf from the clever Fi'ench people's book o-f everyday feeding. Tliey begin -with cafe au kit and bread, plenty of both, but they really breakfast between 10 and 11. The stomach, however, desirous of food it may be at 8 or 9 a.m., is not really ready to take care of it, arid by ca-jaling it with the petit dejeuner, appetite and digestion are usually at their high point in time for ; dujewioi' (breakfast), ov-whafc w$ wtmiL icaiUft noa.n,,<Jian&!\ ' ' ,