Women at Breakfast.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 216, 20 August 1887, Page 5

Women at Breakfast.

Perhaps there is no better test of a woman's health and beauty than her appearance at an early breakfast table. She is then more as nature made her than at any other period of the day, when art has been brought in with a view of heightening her charms. If she has slept well, it argues, to some extent, a sound nervous system, and the effect is seen in the brightness of her eyes and the tone possessed by the muscles of the face and neck. Her movements are full of grace, for her limbs have been refreshed and strengthened by repose, and her mind is clear and bright, for it also has rested, and there have been no bad dreams to exhaust her nervous system and make her limp and haggard. Her intelligence is then at its maximum, and she feels the mental recklessness that is so generally the result of sound, healthy sleep, and that is only a natural elation of the emotions ; pleasant, doubtless, for her to exhibit it, but far more pleasant to those to whom it is manifested. If, on the contrary, she has slept badly, or has suffered from nightmare, in consequence of a feeble digestive system, her eyes are weak, dim, and watery, her face is flabby, her head appears to be held unsteadily on her shoulders, for it droope on her chest, or bobs helplessly from side to side, complexion is dull and blotchy, red where it ought not to be red, and pale where it ougjit not to be pale. Her expression is indicative of the discomfort she has undergone during the night, her movements are either painfully slow, or aggravatingly brusque, her intellect shows stupidity, her emotions are torpid, her perceptions dull. While the woman that is in good physical health exhibits all the beauty in the early morning that her features are capable of expressing, the one whose organic life is deranged is at this period of the day at her worst. There is no better test of a woman's health than her ability to eat a hearty breakfast, and it might always be said that her physical beauty is in direct proportion to the amount of beefsteak or of mutton she can put into herself at this meal. Certainly, pretty women can always oat-a hearty breakfast.