Fruit

Toast

Beverage

II

Fruit Cereal Toast Beverage

III Fruit Meat Toast Beverage

IV

Fruit

Cereal

Meat

Toast

Beverage

Fruit

Cereal

Meat

Another hot dish

Toast

Beverage

Miss James explained that bread or biscuit might take the place of toast, and that eggs, milk, or fish could be substituted for meat. Miss James said, also, that in all these plans the foodstuffs are present; that is, starch and sugar, fat, protein, mineral substances, and water. In breakfast V there is a greater quantity of food all together, and more of the protein and fat than in breakfast I.

How can there be so many kinds of breakfast? They are all real, because somewhere just such meals are being eaten by somebody.

One reason for a light breakfast. When you are traveling on the continent of Europe you have coffee or chocolate, and rolls, with perhaps a little honey, given to you for the first meal of the day; and you soon find it is all you want, because your last meal the evening before was dinner, the heartiest of the day. In some of the cities of our own country, many people eat very little breakfast, and that of a simple kind, because they, too, have had their dinner at night. So, after a heavy meal late in the day, a light breakfast seems to be the natural thing. But that is only one reason for the differences.

Work and eating. There are people in the big city who want a breakfast like IV or V, and who might be willing to go without the fruit for something more "hearty." The man who is working hard with his muscles in the open air eats more and can digest kinds of food that another cannot who is quieter, and who is sitting at a desk all day. Marjorie Allen said that her uncle, who is the cashier of a bank, wants a breakfast something like Miss James's, or like I, II, or III. The amount and kind of physical work that you are to do after breakfast, then, should affect what you eat. If you yourself should eat sausages and breakfast cakes with sirup for breakfast and then should sit down to work on a problem in square or cube root, you would probably find yourself sleepy. But if you are in good health, if it is a Saturday morning in winter, and if you are going skating, you will be better able to digest such a breakfast.

How does the season of the year affect the meal? In the summer time it is hard to digest sausage and griddle cakes with sirup. Meat is not the best food for hot weather. Yet the farmer needs a hearty breakfast to do a day's work. Give him some cheese. Indeed, in haying time bread and milk would make one of the best of breakfasts, if Father could be persuaded to think so. If he thinks that would not "stay by" him, why not oatmeal, with bread and milk, then?

Size and eating. Who eats more, the baby or a grown person? A strong man, six feet tall, weighing say 180 pounds, must eat more for breakfast than a small person; somewhat as a large stove takes more fuel than a small one. If he is in health and working hard, he can digest food and the body can use food of a kind that gives other people indigestion. But such a man even can make mistakes in his food sometimes.

A few breakfast dishes. Suppose we plan for a break-fast like No. IV, - baked apples, oatmeal with milk and sugar, a meat dish, corn bread, and cocoa or coffee. What shall we have for the meat dish?

Do you know how to make a good corned-beef hash?