Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-02-15

Permitting children to SIT at table will
their elders is the cause of good deal o.
mischief and injury TO their youthful d
gestlons. A variety Of dishes should nev
er be permitted, and any attempt at waste
fulness should be checked at once2 Econ
omy and self denial can be taught at the
chidren's table far more easily than al
school.
The diet Of children can hardly be toe
plain. If they require TO be encouraged 10
eat by the administration of dainties, there
must be something radically wrong some
where. 1t Is unlikely that something is
constitutional, more probable insufficient
exercise Ii taken, or taken at wrong times,
or the nursery Is stuify, or the bedroom
badly ventilated, or the parents have forgot
ten that sunshine and fresh air are necessa-
] ry to the healthy life of child as whole
some food itself is.
The want OF cleanliness, or frequent use
OF the bath, is many times the cause OF in
different appetite IN children. Without
cleanliness of clothes and cleanliness of
person, you can not have healthy children.
Without this the young blood seems pois.
oned, the child has neither buoyancy nor
heart, appetite is depraved or absent,
and he grows up as pale and poor as sick
ly plant.
lnjudicious clothing is another cause of
dyspepsia. 1t Is bad enough TO encase the
body which has attained its full develop
ment in tight dress, but it is runous for
a child 10 be clothed in tightly fitting gar
ments. Every organ Of ohild's body
requires room 10 grew and expand; If it
be IN any way compressed, the circulation
through 1t becomes Iessened, and il is there.
for sickly and rendered weak.
Tlghtness, therefore, of any portion OF a
child's clothing ruins not only the organ
directly underneath the construction, but
Indirectly those at a distance from 1t, for
no dammlng up of the circulation can be
tolerated by nature. Tightness round the
waist IN children and young people is the
cause of many cases of dyspepsia, and in a
lesser degree SO Is tightness of the necker-
chief, by retaining the blood in the brain.
Have your chlldren's clothing loose, then, if
you would see them healthy and happy See
too, that at night they sleep not On leather
beds, and that though warmly they are not
heavily clothed.
Children should be fed with great regu-
larty day by day The parents having
chosen the hours Tor dinner, breakfast and
tea, ought to see that the times are strictly
adhered 10.
lrregularltY in meal hours; and times Of
getting up in the morning and retiring TO
bed at night, is not only prejudlcial to The
present health OF child, but 1t teaches him
habits which are greatly against his chances
OF success in alter life.
l need hardly speak here about the quail
ity of tie food that is placed before child;
against lndlgestIble or too rich food, against
sauces aid spices of all kinds, including
clrries, against heavy FOODS of the pancake
dough and dumping kind, against upripe
fruits, against too hot soup, against strong
tea and coffee, or beer. or against overmuch
butchers meat.
Pray, mothers, do not forget that an in
terval OF rest should ensue between the
meals you give your children, and do not
ujure their young dlgestions by crammlng
them with cake, or buns, or sweets of any
kind. To do SO is worse than cruel, 1T is
sin, and sin which you are but little
likely TO commit if you truly love them,
| and really wish TO see them generate INTO
strong and healthy men and women. Tarts
and sweets and confectionery would be
bad enough in all conscience for children,
| even II they were always pure aud una
dulterated. But they are too oftea posIt-
lively poisonous. Feed on plain and whole
| some food regularly from day to day, per-
mittIng no stutflHg between meals, and not
forgetting the benefits that accrue from
frequent changes of diet, more espe-
cIally as regards dinner. Do this, and
your children will live to bless you do
otherwise, and expect to see them slckly,
with veins and arteries possessing no re-
sIhency, with mucous membranes pale
and tlabby, pipes of lungs that the accident
of slight cold is sufficient 10 close, mus
cles OF limbs 50 weak that exercise is a
penance instead of pleasure and fltsh so
unwholesome that pins prick may cause q
tester, and all this because the blood Is i'm
poverIshed through errors IN diet.