Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-05
OUR YOUNGSTERS.
HOW TO FEED. CLoTHE, EXERCISE AND
TRAIN TEEN.
Some Very Pointed Remarks About Some
Very Interes Ing Matters
to Parents.

Very Interes Ing Matters
to Parents.
DIR. Felix L. Oswald, in the popular
Science Monthly" writes very interest
ingiy of physical Education" in which
he gays know from personal experience
the unspeakable advantage of having
constitutional predilection for postponing
the principal meal till the days work is
Greeks, and to their followers every day is
its own reward-the symposium, and the
long, undisturbed siestG daily festival.
1t almost doubles a mans working capac-
ity, by saving him the dire daily struggle
between duty and the after-dinner drowsi-
ness. Children who have tried the two
methods will rarely hesitate in their choice.
Give them lunch at II o'clock, and for
breakfast a crust of sweet BRAN bread, the
coarser the better. A hard crust is the
best dentifrice. | never could get myself
to believe in the natural necessity Of a
tooth brush. The African nations, the
Hindoos, the natives of Southern Europe,
the South Sea Islanders, the Arabs, the
South American vegetarians, in short,
three-fourths of our fellow-mep, besides
our next relatives, the frugivorous animals,
have splendid teeth without sozodont. /
really believe that ours decay from
SHEER DIsUsE,
The boarding house homo lives chiefly on
pap-wants all mis- meats soft-boiled, and
growls at cold buiscuit or an underdone
potato; in other words, he delegates to the
cook the proper functions of his teeth.
We hear occasionally of old men getting
second, or rather third, set of teeth. l
met one of them in northern Guatemala,
and ascertained that he had become tooth
less during twelve years sojourn In
seaport town, and that he got his new set
upon his return to his native village, where
circumstances obliged him to resume the
hard corncake diet of his boyhood years.
His teeth had reappeared as soon as their
services were called for, and would proba-
bly, have never absented themselves if a
pap-diet had not made them supertiuous.
An artificial dentifrice will certainly
KEEP THE TEETH WHITE,
But that does not prevent their premature
decay. Disuse gradually softens their sub.
stance, till one fine day the hash-eater
bua Us HIS DtSG iLSiSci upOh OH tSSbSo
piece of bone. Every old dentist knows
hundreds of city customers whom the daily
use of TOOTH brush did not save from the
necessity of applying, before the end of the
fortieth year, for complete celluloid
set." do not say that soft tooth brush
and such dentifrices as oatmeal or burned
arrowroot can do any harm, but, for sani-
tary purposes, such precautions must be
supplemented by dental exercise. Let a
child invigorate its teeth by chewing a
hard crust, or, better yet, handful of
"St. Johns bread or carob beans, the
edible pod of the Mimosa sitiqud. Children
and whole tribes of the northern races seem
to feel an instructive desire to exercise their
teeth upon some solid substance. as pet
squirrels will gnaw the furniture if you
give them nut-kernels instead of nuts.
Thus Kohl tells us that the natives OF
southern Russia are addicted to the prac-
tice of chewing vegetable product which
he at first supposed to be pumpkin or
melon seeds, but found to be the much
harder seed of the Turkish sunfower ( He.
kanttus perennis).
THEIR NATIONAL DIET
Consists of milk, kukurus (hominy, with
butter ETC. J, and boiled mutton, and they
seem to feel that their Turkoman jaws
need something more substantial. The
schoolboy habit of gnawing pen-holders,
| fngernails, etc., may have a similar signif-
icance. The Mimosa siliqua would yield
abundantly in our Southern States, and its
sweet pods would make an excellent sub.
stitute for chewing gum. Our practice of
slipping ice cold and steaming- hot drinks,
turn about, has also very injurious effect
upon the brittle substance that forms the
enamel of our teeth; no porcelain glaze
would stand such abuse for any length of
time, and experience has taught hunters
and dog g-fanciers that it destroys even the
bone crushing fangs of the animal from
which our canine teeth derive their name.
The first thing child should learn is to
ask for a drink of water. | have seen
handled children scream and idget for
hours together, as if troubled by some un.
ing the mik-bottle and pap.dish with
growing impatience. In nine such cases
out of ten the nurse will either resort to
paregoric or try
THE EFFECT OF A LULLABY.
l need not say that the poison expedient
would be wrong under all circumstances,
but, before you try anything else, offer the
child cup of cold water. To young
nursing the mothers breast supplies both
food and drink, but farinaceous paps re-
quire better diluent than milk. If
should name the greatest danger to child
hood, would unhesitatingly say, medicine.
A drastic drug as remedial agent is Beel-
zebub in the role of an exorcist Our nur-
sery system, after all reforms, is still far
from being the right one-how far, we may
infer from the fact that we have not yet
learned to make our babies behave as well
as young animals. Tight.swaddlipg, strait
jacket gowns, and trailing petticoats-re-
straint, in short, makes our infants so
peevish. If we would give them chance
to use their limbs they would have no time
to scream. 1t would prevent innumerable
diseases if people would learn to distin.
guish morbid appetency from healthy
appetite. One diagnostic rule is this, that
the qualification of the latter is not fol-
lowed by repentance; another, that the
former has to be artifcially and painfully
acquired;
OUR BETTER NATURE
Resists the incipience of morbid T" second
nature. After acquitting nature from all
responsibility for such Fictitious appetites,
it may be justly said that man can find a
road to health and happiness by simply
following his instincts. Precocious pru-
rience is generally due to causes that can
be avoided. If you can educate the young
children at home and select their play.
mates, there is no real danger before the
eleventh year of boy and the ninth of a
girl. After that the following precautions
will suffice in ali but the unluckiest cases !:
Let your children have plenty of outdoor
play, especially in the evening. Wait till
they are really sleepy before you send them
to bed. Let every child have its own bed,
or at least its own bedclothes. Keep your
small boys out of the servants room, and
your girls after their tenth year; with
girls under ten there is less danger; they
are quite sure to tell about any improper
thing they see or hear, and the servants