Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-11-12
Food for Children.

don't believe she'll eat it," said Ii,
mother, as plato of roast beef an,
nicely mashed potato was placed be
fore her child. So piece of pounc
cake and of rich pastry was provided
for the "dainty little thing" of which
she made her dinner. This was ut ar
opcn-air picnic, or campmeeting rather
where everybody has, or ought &c
have, wholesome and sharp appetite
both for spiritual and physical aliment
An hour after this occurrance, as we
sat under the sermon, brisk crack.
Hing in the rear caused US TO look be.
hind for moment, and there sat the
dainty little thing" devouring candy
at n rate that would give dyspepsia to
an ostrich, and we wondered If that
mother did really possess good com.
mon sense. When a child has no ap,
petite for plain, wholesome food, some
thing is wrong in the brain of the
mother. Why, look at the facts Of
the case. For the first six or eight
years Of q child's life it does nothing
but sleep, eat, play and grow, The
very law of growth.and assimilation
gives it sharp craving for aliment,
and the craving is fed by sound sleep
and by constant activity; unless its
digestive organs have been tampercd
with by weak and injudicious hands,
there will nothing al its appetite.
Just hero is the difficulty. TO secure
a brief respite candy or cake or pastry
is put into the hands Of the baby, un-
til it cries for it, and will be satisfied
with nothing else. 1t may be that
the foundation Of this longing for
sweets has been laid in infancy by
mixing that abomination, soothing
irup, with the baby's milk, as it is
sometimes done by ignorant mothers,
ID that tho child's digestive organs
lave been bewitched from its earliest
infancy, und it never knew the bite of
formal hunger, or the satisfaction of a
good square meal" Ono can tell
such children BY glance at the teeth,
is quickly as a jockey can tell the age
q u morse py It's ieeth' a shlning row
e unslained pearls in juvenile mouth
y quick witness oil wholesome and reg
uar 1000, oil early ahd long sleep, OF
sund ana easy DIGESTION ana every
hiid ought TO have just such an ivory,
niII; III,
The growlngfood is milk this with
wgelapies' iruit, oread, ana much OF
me various grams shouid constitute
ne prlnclpai portion OF q chlids nu-
uiment' Many parents we 'hink un-
vise'y, allow their children abundance
q meat. ibis MAKES tne chi'a rest
ess ana impatient OF cohtroi; ~ mas
~ TACT, the same erect on children
mat corn has on young animals: IL
nakes them chaic 10 ana fro wlthin
lnelr narrow bounds Just as pears and
.'gers 90 10 the'r IRON cages tram
!, animals tne morse, the COW
.ne sneep' are mia ana uoc''e, WINE
,no carn'vora are nerce, ag'ie, ana
'ean. oh'idreh VINO I'VE on preau aho
tn,lk ana vegetaoies w''l, as general
RUE, DC more am'aoie, more ooedient
ana iuiler ~ hesh lhah tnose VINO eat
,arge qnani,es OF meat, hegular'ly IN
'eeuing enidfeh is great importance
a chi'd may form a haoit of eatng SIX
OF elght tlmes a day, or ~ may learn
10 saus'y us appetl'e at the tnree reg
uiar meals, IL these however, are
more than hVe nours apart tnere shouid
oe siisht lunch between, long enough
before lhe succeeding meal not 10 take
lhe euge from the hppetlte' Sit'ing
up lale at night' undue excitemeot,
ana act'Vi'y just oeI9re rctlr'hg' VIII
get almost any eh'ld INTO u nervous
ana thas create morbid
state OF the oooy wnic, VIII cause the
TO crave unhoiesoine iood.-
Eariy TO oed Is a safe RUE Tor every
body, especially Tor the young, and II
they waken carly, very wcll, put by
all means let them sleep their sleep
out. Very rapid growers and ner
vous children require more food than
those who attain their growth slowly |
and arc lymphatc in their temper.
ment. 1t seems TO us almost cruel to
waken growing child out of sound
sleep. AS many parents depend on
the services their children are able to
render if the boys and girls must be
up early in the morning, they should
be compelled to retro betimcs. One
reason why children c'amor for cake
and pie so much ia doubtless because
lhc bread to which they are accus-
.omed is so poor. II is tasteless, or
sour, or stale, or heavy, or something
beside sweet, light, and appetizing.-
We are sorry to believe that in the
majority of families the bread is, as a
'nle interior in quality, and often posi-.
iave on their tables tho best OF bread
will bear testimony that their children
10 not clamor for cake or d"int,es.-