BEGIN YOUR DAY WELL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1939, Page 10

BEGIN YOUR DAY WELL

ESSENTIAL TO WELL BEING. DISPEL EARLY MORNING BLUES. Psychologists tell us , that a cheerful beginning to the day is most essential to our well-being—and gay breakfast sets will do a good deal towards dispelling those “early-morning blues” to which some of us are prone. China manufacturers have realised the truth of this, too, and during recent years have given a good deal of thought to the question, and have designed special breakfast sets —gay and delightful in every way. And no one has been forgotten. There are breakfast sets for the family, for the bachelor girl, or for the invalid and the lie-a-bed. Time was when breakfast was a silent occasion—father retired behind the morning paper and contributed nothing but a few grunts to the family conversation, the schoolboy son cast lastminute and anxious glances at his Latin book, and the mother of the house tried to read her letters and plan the day’s menu at the same time.

But modern families have turned over 'a new leaf, and realise that a happy breakfast is the very best beginning to a day. And one .of the very best ways to have a happy breakfast set which, by its gay pattern and colour, inspires a conversational atmosphere. Set on the tray, with an egg ready to appease the early-morning pangs, is a mottled breakfast set in light blue, finished with a gold rim ahd floral designs on the handles and knobs. Even the toast-rack has been designed to match.

'Cottage china for breakfast out of doors. What could be more attractive? And somehow the daisies that the young Woman is arranging are all ill keeping with the simplicity of the red. yellow, and green daisies and the green checks of the pattern on the china.

The green-spotted tablecloth is in keeping, too, with the cottage atmosphere. .