Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-08


have been slain by this fell destroyer during
the past eight or ten years. We woudby no
means give either aid or comfort to the yend-
ers of the villainous compounds sold under
the name of milk, in this city and elsewhere
whether it be from the distilleres or chalk
shops; bat as bad and unfit for human diet
as are these so. called " milks," we verify be-
lieye that the untipely deaths among chill
dren, anG grown up people too would be d-
unfinished at least one half, if the chief diet
was only this milk or if nothing acorse were
swallowed
What does KtU the Children then?
We answer unhesitatingly that it is mainly
unmastcated or unground food. To say MOTH
ing OF mortality among grown people, we un-
dertake to affirm, that if food for children be
invariably prepared according to the prescrip-
ton we shall give further on, the deaths
among them will be diminished two-thirds.
the "pains under their aprons will become
very rare. and their wakeful restlessness at
night will, in nine cases out of ten, be ex.
changed for sound repose.
When food goes into the stomach it must
all be reduced to fluid state, or at least to a
PUPPY mass, or il will lie there for few hours
and then either be passed out by vomiting. or.
as is usually the case, be thrown off into the
lntestines to make its way through the lonp
channel, and be thrown out in the excre.
ments. Now, if any one will take the from
Die to- examine the excrements of children,
they will in perhaps majority of cases, find
undigested Jumps of food, such as pieces of
potato, meat, fruit, sc. But how is it posi-
Ole that piece of potato or fruit, for exam
pie, though no larger than pea, can make
Its way through the whole length of the
small
feet in grown person, and twelve to fifteen
feet in small children-without producing ir-
rltaton sufficient 10 disturb the health of the
SYSTEM Yet how very few children get
through week without thus evacuating a
score or hundred such Jumps of food
People forget, or do not understand what
process the food put into their own or their
children's mouths, is to go through with.
Just imagine all the food that goes down the
neck at meal, dropped into bowl where it
could be examined, instead of into the stom-
ach. We should find it full of bits of meat,
potato, pickle, turnip, sc. Pour into this
quantity of water or other fluid, and stir il
two or three hours. and we shall find s con-
siderable quantity of lumpy fool remaining
undlssolyed. But suppose we take the same
food, and cut the meat into small bits no lar
ger than shot, mash up the potato to pow
dered state, treat the pickles, fruit, &C., in the
same way, and then stir the whole together.
In few minutes they would become a pulpy
mass
Now this is just whaS takes place in the
stomach, both of the child and the adult.
This organ receives just whatever NAV be
sent to 1t. 1t keeps up a constant motion, so
long as there is food remaining in 1t, but tits
not supplied with an upper and a neither
milestone, capable of reducing to pulp the
hard, lumpy materials thrown in. 1t works ,
faithfully, grinding off the corners, and wear
ing away the surfaces, but it has not the
power to mash down many Of the lumpy
substances that are committed to it. The
very attempt TO do SO produces irritation, and
aiter time, 1t forces out the dissolved and
undissolved material into the intestines
which, by their peristatic (spiral or worm
llke) motion, rub against the materials. fore
ing them along until they are finally dis
charged. Oftentimes, the stomach itself is
so rrtated with the substances that it cannot
work up, that it yomits them up through the
opening where they entered and were this
always done it would save much of the irri.
tation IN the lntestiness resulting in gripping
pains, coics. bowel complaints, Sc.
so long as there are a7adiSsoIved luDaps of
food, Of any KIND an either the stomach or in
test'aeS, so tong there must be tyyitat,on.-and
continuance Of this irritation must, IL, time
result On pain and ultimate disease.
Grown up persons may masticate or chew
their food to fine, easily dissolved mass be-
lore swallowing it. but children will not do
thls' and as certainly as you place food be-
lore them IN Jumps, so certainly will thew
swallow, at least portion of it, in this con-
dition.
Our oaon Rules for Feeding Children
are these They usually eat at breakfast and
dinner the same food as older persons-meat.
potatoes, and other vegetables fruits, bread.
butter, &c., but no article of food of ana kind
IS 10 De placed before them aohicb has not been
previously reduced to so finely divided a coaai.
s'o' t"at NOT S'aglc portion can be SsoaAoaoed
larger than the smallest pea. Meat is cut into
The smallest possible bits, and not left to be
swallowed In pieces suitable for an internal
poultlce. Potatoes, however cooked or nre-
prepared, are not merely mashed under a
KNIFE blade, but they are ground down on the
plate, almost as fine as -four. Fruit. when
ever given, is scraped or mashed to a puln
haislns, and all kinds of dried fruit and nuts
II given at all, are cut up as fine as shot. All
xmas OF vegetables-in short, whatever is IN
oe eaten-is In like manner reduced to this
nne state, unless it be bread, or something
t9at Will of itself dissolve readily in the flu.
ids OF the stomach
Inc third or last meal of the day, is -inya..
Haoly bread and milk, or mush" and milk.
which are soon digested and out of the way'
leaving them to sleep soundly and sweetiv !
mach $50
This plan, which is so consonant with rea-
son ana sound theory, is productive of the
Nappies' results IN practice, and we can hut |
earnestly commend it to all parents; and |
muse VINO nave the care of children. For |
the chldren's sake, for their own corfor,
We are constrained to beg parents to think
upon TINS matter, and TO make tboropob |
trial OF the plan of preparing food which ,go
have recommended. Do not saw Nc CO.,
nave SAID to us, when arging the ma,ter mn
on them, " Oh, this is too rnpcb tro,,h,oF11 |
nave not the time or patience for sncb (
course or. 4" my children eat ANYTHING and |
everything, andI do not see but thew ers as
heal'ny as your children who are so carefnlIv
asenueu IL IS not So. Our word for IL
ADOPT the course we have reeotnmended AVID
anu you VIII Ind it time and health saved in
sne enc. 10 say nothing of saving in phvs,-
GUNS ices! And do not be satisfied with
.neieiy directing servant to prepare the food
Ir anu SO, out yourself see that il is done.
yUu VIII make the experiment for six
only taking care to prepare the food
10 We nave suggested, and TO have little
''ie uiso that the stomach be not overloaded
nm, Nc can almost warrant that your children
VIII pass through the season with good.
healtn, and without their usual Summer
complaints. The cherries, and currants and
osirles are now ripening. If YOU allow the
on"uieh 10 swallow these fruits unmasticated,