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Show Lunching Alone Do you treat yourself well, Friend Housewife, when you are alone in the house during the SB HI M middle of the day and have no one but yourself to prepare luncheon for? Or do you go to the bread box and cut a slice of bread, butter it from the pantry shelf, get a few cold peas or beans from the refrigerator, then munch a piece of cake, 'and let it go at that? I'll warrant you do, and that you eat the whole thing standing up or walking around! "Oh, it doesn't seem worth while to cook or prepare a meal just for oneself," one-self," says th average woman, carelessly, care-lessly, forgetting that one of the reasons rea-sons the busy home woman gets so tired and cross and out of sorts is because be-cause she does not take time to rest, to eat nourishing, nicely served food, and to give her nerves and digestive apparatus a chance to do their work well. Once upon a time two sisters lived alone during the later years of their lives. They grew weaker, more anemic, more feeble, from month to month. Finally, during the last illness of one of them, the other sister confessed to the neighbors who came in to help, that for years they bad eaten very little but bread and tea "it didn't seem worth while to cook regular meals for just us two." So treat yourself as a guest In your own house. At luncheon time sit down to your pretty table, spread your place with dainty linen doily, silver and china, prepare a howl of hot soup or an egg dish, or a nourishing salad, with a bit of dessert to top off with and take time to eat it slowly and pleasantly. You will be resling after the morning's work and taking on strength for the efforts or tbe afternoon after-noon and evening. After your luncheon, lunch-eon, He down and take a bit of a nap, or sit and read a book or magazine, Instead of flying around again immediately. imme-diately. The lunch hour (and make It at least an hour) is as necessary to tbe housewife as it Is to the office worker. (Copyright.) |