The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-02-01
Children,s Diet.

a writer In Cassell's Magazine makes
the following sensible suggestion con.
corning the diet Of children:
The diet Of children can hardly be too
plain. lfthey require to be encouraged
to eat by the administration of dainties
there must be something radically wrong
somewhere: II is unlikely that that
something n c0nstitut iohal, more prob
ably insufficient exercise is taken, or the
bedroom badly ventilated. or the bar
ents have forgotten that sunshine and
fresh air are as necessary to the healthy
life OF a child as wholesGniefood itself ls.
Tho Tant Of cleanliness, of FREQUENT
Use G: the bath, Is many times the Cause
Of indifferent specifies in childref1.
Without cleanliness Of clothes ard clean.
iinessotperson you capnot have healthy
chlidfen. Without this the youn9
blood seems poisoned, the child has
neither buoyancy nor heart, appetite ia
depraved or absent, and he grows no az
poor and pale as sickly plant. Iniu.
dlclous clothing is another cause of dys-
pepsla. It is bad enough to encase the
body which has attained tia full deyel.
opment In g tight dress, but it Is ruin
Gus for child to be clothed iri tightly
fittin9 garments. Every organ of a
child's body requires room to expand;
II Oe IN any way compressed the circu.
iatl0n Through it becomes lessened. and
It le therefore sicklied and rendered
weak: jightness, therefore; Of any Dor
ton tGhild's clothing ruins not Only the
organ directly underneath the construc-
ton, put Indirectly those at q distances
from 1t, for no damming up Of the circu-
latlon can be tolerated by nature. Tight
ness round the waist in children and
young people is the cause of many cases
OF dyspepsia, and in lesser degree 40
is tightness of the neckerchief, BY re-.
tanning the blood In the brain. Have
your children's clothing loose, then, If
you would see them healthy and happy,
zee. too, that at night they sleep not on
leather beds, and that though warmly
they are not heavily clothed. Children
oughtto be fed with great regularity day
by day. The parents, having chosen
the hour Tor dinner, breakfast, and tea
ought to SEQ that the times are strictly
adhered to.
1rregularity in meal hours and time of
getting up in the morning and retiring
to Ted at night is not only preiudicial to
the present health of q child. but it
teaches him habits which are greatly
against his chances of success in after
life: Ineed hardly speak here about the
quality of the food that is placed before
. child; against indigestible or too rich
food. against sauces and spices of all
kinds, Including curries; against heavy
foods cfthe pancake, dough and dumping
kind: against unripe fruits, against
too hot soup, against strong tea and
coffee or beer, or against over.
much butchers meat. Pray, mothers,
DO not forget that an interval of rest
should ensue between the meals you give
your children, and do not ruin their
young digestions by examining them with
cake. or buns, or sweets of any kind.
10 do SO is worse than cruel, it is sin,
and sin which you arelbut 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 if they were always
pure and unadulterated. But they are
too often positively poisonous. Feed on
plain and wholesome food regularly from
day to day: permitting, no stutting be-
tween meals, and not forgetting the ben
ems tnaC accrue from frequent chances
of diet, more especially as regards din
ner: Do this and your children will live
to bless you; do otherwise, and expect to
see them sickly with veins and arteries
possessing no resistency, with mucous
membranes pale and habby, pipes of
lungs that the accident Of slight cold is
sufficient TO close, muscles of limbs so
week that exercise is penance instead
of a pleasure, and flesh sounwholesome
that a pins prick may cause tester, and
all this because the blood is impoverished
through errors in diet.