Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-06

ness and usefulness. Men ana women
break down under the pressure of duties
or ambition, simply because their pa
rents did not fit them for domestic duties
and business pressure by giving proper
form and strength to their functions by
a proper course of training. These re-
marks apply more particularly to girls,
who are usually allowed to mature, as
did Topsy, without any pains to give
that growth and strength to their body,
that future domestic duties may de-
mand.
The tendency is to neglect the body
and abuse the mind. No subject of gen
eral interest is now so great as the
proper means of giving growth and
strength. activity and endurance to
girls9so that women and wives may not
be so generally feeble and suffering.
The rearing of we'll grown men and
women is as important in the future life
as the present. For religious character
and religious sentiment depend very
much upon physical health and strength.
Our gratitude to Heaven depend very
much upon our digestive forces. Hard
eating and hard drinking units the soul
for religious, holy thoughts, and suffer
inc and feebleness impairs our gratitude
to Heaven. Men tell us just how much
food and what kind our animals need,
but no principles are involved in feed
inc human beings. Children are over
fed, or underfed, and so are made i'll, or
we'll, weak or strong, indolent or active
by what they eat and drink. Many in
fants die from undertaking, some suf-
fer from repletion and others from star
walton. A want of principle in feeding
is the basis of the trouble. Infants and
children are allowed to eat all they want
and not all they need. Our farmers,
governed by experience and observation,
specify the kind and quantity of food
their domestic animals may need to pro-
mote certain results they have in view.
The great trouble is that our mothers
often have no idea of the effects of diff
ferent kinds of food. They are wholly
ignorant of the fact that some kinds of
food produce muscles, bones, etc., while
Others produce body heat and fat.
Growth and strength demand certain
per cent. of the one and q different per
cent. of the other. AS a general rule
it may be true, that appetite is good
guide as to quantity. Still some
exceptions may exist. Some chill
dren no less than some adults, be-
come gluttOns and do themselves much
harm. Children need more food than
the mature, bulk for bulk They should
have enough to build their ''harps of
thousand strings aud then enough to
keep them in repair. The food they
consume depends upon their needs.
They may need sugar, so necessary in
supplying the means of moving the ami
NAL machinery. They may need fat.
Sugary and fatty matters combine with
oxygen in the body and thus evolve
heat. Those children who are cold,
who possess only poor circulation of
blood, need sugar Other compounds
may be converted into heat-food.
Starch is changed to sugar in the course
of digestion. The liver converts other
constituents of food to sugar. Children
usually dislike fat, but have love for
sugar. An excess of sugar may COM
pensate for lack of fat. Suet, boiled
in milk, is often useful to feeble chill
dren.
Children are very fond of fruit. All
vegetal acids are beneficial when taken
moderately at regular periods of time.
Ripe fruits containing sugar are pecu-
liarly agreeable and useful to all. Now,
in these cases we see that children
should be fed in harmony with their
taste.
The taste of children should always
be consulted. They usually need a vari-
ETY., not in kind but in flavor. The
same kind of food day after day
often becomes insipid. They should be
left to their appetites as to flavor, but
not as to quantity. They should have
those kinds for which they have a love.
Let it form part of their regular diet,
so that they may be less inclined to con-
sumo large quantities. The quantity of
food must be regulated by observation
and experience. If an infant sucks a
large amount and eructates part surely
it is wise to give it less next time.-C.
II. Allen, ". d., i21 Western RuraJ.