Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-10-27
A Letter from Jack Horner.
who sat in the Corner.

MESS RS. EDIT Rs:-1 here are some THINGS
DO TOT understand, and as you are sup
| Posec 20 know great deal, and people
o"Ine 70 you IN their trou 5les, perhaps YOU
1t Is about eating l want to spesk. and
Kh"" you nave good MANY pieces in
your PAPER tel'ng OF things that are good
anc bad tor children. | can't exar,Iv 60
why, they are bad for children and good
| for grown people; for instance, rich mince.
PIE with raisins in them they taste good,
know; but there was a lady at our hon se
the other day and when l asked my moth
er for piece. the lady looked at me 90
swPetly, and said:
oh such pies are not good for little
boys and then lizard her say sO0nafteI.
Mrs. Suiih. Twill take another piece q
that Dice pie, il you please; il is so very
tempting
The next morning the lady did not come
down to breakfast. and they said che had a
headache. So said. perhaps it was eat
ing that miuce pie , but they husbed me
NJ, aud would not let me speak NV
Thoughts.
Then one dag / wunted some custard and
they said It was not very good for me, and
pretty soon saw them take some to q per
soh who was sick. So there was tuzzled
again, for did not see how custard sbeu ID
be so bad for me, when was we'll and
strong, and running about Out Of doors all
day long, aud yet be safe for lady who
was III.
Besides, I heard DR.. Wise talking the
other day, and he said:
'Custards and jeillesl No. never give
them to the sick People think they are
nice, because the are soft, and slip down
easily; but you would not give sick por-
son hard boiled eggs aud It dnes not make
it any better TO stir them IN and boil them
in milk. Az 70 jelly, there is very little
nnurlshmeDt in il. and il is hard to digest
M, give sick person good bread and
meat, and broth and pIrridge, and let al
these sweet things alone
Now what | want to ask you is. If really
and truly you do not think, that when
things are bad for children, they are bad
for older people. and that it would be bet
ter not &c COX them, nor to have them on
the tahle2 i know very often hear them
say, j do not feel as well for eating that
cake or. i know that that pudding dis
agreed with me- and yet they have no one
to say to them, as is said to US children.
You cannot have it; It is not good for
you
think it is very hard that we little bows
and girls should be made to exercise so
much Of what they cal self denial, when il
would be so much better not to see the
things on the table.
Dr.. Wise said one day, take away all
sweet stuff. All these candies and cake
and Jellies and sweet meats; they are
just as bad as they can be. Take them
away But they are put Oh the table just
the same.
Aud then he tod how, since sugar was
so dear. they had put all things with it,
and the cOlUrs were poisonous and the acid
and havoring, as be called them were often
poisonous; and he said tn the lady he was
talking with, while listened with all nv
ears:
Why, two little children died last
week. poisoned by eating candy. We
c7uld not tell exactly what Is was, but they
were both taken sick 10 the same way, af
ter eating sumo candy the nurse had
brought for them, aud as | said died in
Consequence
But what shall do. Doctor 2 said the
lady.
Give your children plain food at reg
ular times, and never have ANYTHING
between meals, but let their stOmachs
rest.'
us all?
I" be sure it is, ma'am but what
would become of nv pracIice?'
That was all l heard.
Yours. JACK HoRNER.