A BLESSING ON THE LIGHT BREAKFAST.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 1 May 1914, Page 6

A BLESSING ON THE LIGHT BREAKFAST.

The Lancet, pausing for a moment in its contemplation of the mani. fold perils which surround us, bestows a dignified blessing on the modern habit of the light breakfast, or, indeed, of do breakfast at all. " There is a great deal to be said," it admits, " in favour of the ' coffee and rolls ' plan," and somethiug1, also, for the unaccompanied glass of hot water. Thus taidily does medical science follow""' in the footsteps 'of those whom we rashly call faddists." Thus impiously do we throw overboard the wisdom of the a^es— " No Breakfast, No Man." " A Hungry Man'son Angry Man," "Feed the Brute " Will our children look back with a shudder on the eggs and bacon of their fathers, and the beef and beer of remoter progenitors ? • )ne thing1 is clear ; we must revise our fancy picture of John Bull.