Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1881 — Early Breakfasts. [ARTICLE]

Early Breakfasts.

A bad custom is prevalent in many families, especially among farmers, of working an hour before breakfast, attending to “ohores," hoeing the garden, cutting wood, mowing, ete. This is convenient on many accounts, but is not conductive to health. The prevalent opinion is, that the morning air is the purest and the most heathful and bracing; but the contrary is the fact At no hour of the day is the air more filled with dampness, fogs, and miasmas, than about sunrise. The heat of the sun gradually dissipates these miasmatic influences as the day advances. An early meal braces up the system against these influences. Every one knows the languor and faintness often experienced for the firet hour in the morning, and this is increased by exercise ana want of food. We do not agree with the boarding-school regime. which prescribed a long walk before breakfast as a means of promoting health. Probably the best custom would be to ftimish eveiy member of the family, especially those who labor out of doors, a cup of coffee immediately after rising from bed. Then let them attend to chores, or mowing, hoeing, etc.', for an hour or two while the teams are feeding, and the breakfast preparing. They will feel better and do more work. —American Agri~ culiurlet.