The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-04-06
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are allowed to eat ct all hours, they
seldom have antappetite to eat what
is set before them tthe regular time;
and then it makes 50 much work to
keep the pantry in order, with three
or four pairs of little hands to scatter
crumbs, and as many hands to make
tracks. Besides, many professors of
science teach us that it is decidedly
unhealthy. So, taking all these things
into consideration, have concluded
that it is better not to allow them
pieces between meals.",
l made no reply, knowing that it
would be worse than useless to argue
the point with one who had no sympa.
thy with children. Nevertheless, l
determined to enter a serious protest
against such barbarous cruelty. It
may do very well for Psychologists to
make rules. but people should remem.
ber that all rules have various excep-
tions. There is no doubt but that the
digestive organs should have time to
perform their allotted duties. We are
told, too, that we should rest at least
an hour after eating, before attempt.
ing physical or mental labor. Who
obeys this INDUCTION! Not one worker
in fifty; certainly not the little active
one, who has houses to build, farming
tools to create, mill-dams to erect, doll
houses to care for, flowers to gather,
butterflies to catch, birds nests to
hunt, and a thousand and one steps
that mamma knows nothing about, be-
sides as many more, for parents,
brothers and sisters.
Now if one is to take the Physiology
for guide, it is necessary to mind all
it's precepts and not select one rule and
make all organizations succomb to
that. Nature tells the little child
or grown-up individual when the
stomach requires refreshments much
better than science. The child is
called in the morning, long before it
has had it's natural sleep, to eat its
breakfast. Of course it has but little
if any appetite; few mouthfuls is
sufficient; and then think of going
from five to seven hours without
tasting food! Ugh!-it makes one
faint to think of it.
But, you say, the child will eat a
hearty dinner. and make up for the
breakfast. Possibly; but be assured if
it does it will overload the stomach,
causing arrangement and inflamma.
ton. But it is more than likely that
the child will have passed the time
when dinner would relish. and again
very little food is required. By.and-
by mamma and papa begin to wonder
what ails Jennie, ''Why, she doesn' t
eat enough to keep chicken alive. -
She grows thin and pale week by week;
slow fever sets in, and she is confined
to her bed. A long fit of sickness is
the result; and caused by actual stary.
alton in her own fathers house, where
there was bread enough and to spare.
Mother Eve set us an example,
thousands of years ago, before scien-
lists were born, to eat when we are
hungry. Do you think Satan himself
could have tempted her to eat the for
bidden fruit if she hadn't felt "a sort
of goneness'' in the region of the
stomach Most certainly not. She
would have been supplying herself
with flowers, wherewith to deck her.
self and her dear Adam, or gazing with
fond looks into her husbands eyes,
wherein she would behold her own
fair face as in "a glass darkly.''
Don't forget the hungry children,
nor turn deaf ear when they ask for
bread.