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Show EGGS HELP DIVORCE. ! Product of the Hen Causes Laziness and Breaks Up Homes. (Detroit Journal.) Mrs. Sarah Rorer of cook' book fame says American women eat too many-eggs many-eggs for breakfast. There is too much nourishment in them, she explains, and, 'not being easily digested, they cause feelings of lassitude, which encourage en-courage laziness. "If fewer women ate eggs for breakfast break-fast there would be fewer cases f divorce," says Mrs. Rorer. "We would not hear so much about wiges neglecting neglect-ing their work in the morning to lounge in easy chairs and read the daiiy papers. Homes would be kept more tidy; husbands would be better satisfied with their helpmates, and the quarrels that disrupt families wouli be recited less frequently in the courts of the land. "I do not mean that any woman eats too many eggs at a time. That is not the point. If one woman should eat one egg for breakfast each morning it would be tod nviny. And few women realize this. They change the style of cooking the egg, but they stick to " eggs. "One day it is boiled, the next fried, with 'the sunny side up.' On the third day it is shirred, and then, with an occasional omelet, the order is repeated. repeat-ed. Fresh eggs, .no matter in what style they are cooked, if they are well cooked, are delicious. But too frequent fre-quent recourse to them is dangerous. "Yes. society women eat too many eggs also. By society women I mean those lilies of the feminine world w.ho neither toil nor spin. They do net have housework to do. and one might jump to the conclusion that they could eat eggs with impunity. "But here again the divorce court faces women who yield to the fatal appetite. ap-petite. Eggs are heavy, even "when taken with sherry. The social leader who overindulges doses her brightness of eye, her piquancy and charm. Her husband notices the change and loses interest. Trouble follows and then cois the lawyers." . |