The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-01-17
The Diet Of Children.

Cassell's Magazine.
Permitting children to sit at table
with their elders is the cause Of a
good deal of mischief and injury to
their youthful digestions. A variety
of dishes should never be permitted,
and any attempt at waStefulness
should be checked at at once. Econ
omy and self-denial can be taught at
the children's table far more easily
than at school.
The diet of children can hardly be
too plain. If they require to be en-
couraged to eat by the administration
of dainties, there must be something
radically wrong somewhere. 1t is
unlikely that that something is con
stitutional more probably INSULT
cient exercise is taken, or taken at
wrong times, or the nursery is stuffy,
or the bedroom badly ventilated or the
parents have forgotten that sunshine
and fresh air are as necessary to the
healthy life Of child as wholesome
food is.
The want Of cleanliness, or frc-
qucnt use Of the bath, is many times
the cause Of Indifferent appetite in
children. Without cleanliness Of
clothes and cleanliness Of person you
cannot have healthy children. With
out this the young blood seems pois
oned, the child has neither buoyancy
nor heart, appetite is depraved or
absent, and he grows up az pale and
poor as a sickly plant.
Iniudicious clothing is another
cause Of dyspepsia. 1t is bad enough
to encase the body which has attained
its full development in tight dress
but it is ruinous for a child to be
clothed in tightly-ftting garments
Every organ of child's body re.
quircs room 10 grow and expand
if it be in any way compressed, the
circulation through it becomes less
ened, and it is therefore sicklied and
rendered weak.
Tightness, therefore, of any por
ton Of child's clothing ruins no
only the organs directly underneath
the construction, but indirectly those
ut distance from it, for no damminl
up Of the circulation can be tolerated
by nature. Tightness round thu
waist in children and young people
is the cause of many cases of dys
pepsa, and in lesser degree so i
tightness Of the neckerchief, by re
tanning the blood in the brain. HAY,
your children's clothing loose, then
| if you would see them healthy ant
happy. See, toe, that at night they
sleep not on feather beds, and the
though warmly they are not heavil,
clothed.
Children should be fed with grea
regularity day by day. The parents
having chosen the hours for dinner
breakfast and tea, ought to see tina
the times are strictly adhered to.
Irregularity in meal hours, ant
times of getting up in the morning
ard retiring to bed at night, is TO
only prejudicial tC the present healtl
Of child, but it teaches him habit
which are greatly against his chance
of success in atter-life.
/ need hardly speak here about tn
quality Of the food that is placed be
fore a child; against indigestible 0
too rich food, against sauces an,
spices Of all kinds, including curries
against heavy foods of the pancake
dough and dumpling-kind, agains
unripe fruits, against too hot soup
against strong tea, and coffee, 0
beer, or against over-much butchers
meat.
Pray, mother, do not forget tina
an interval of rest should ensue be
tween the meals you give your child
rem, and do not ruin their young d
gestion by examining them with cak
or buns, or sweets Of any kind. I
do this is worse than cruel, it is a sir
and sin you are but little likely
commit if you truly love them, an
really wish to see them germinat
into strong and healthy men an
women. Tarts and sweets and cor
fectionery would be bad enough in a
conscience for children, even if the
were always pure and unadulterated
But they are too often positivel
poisonous. Feed on plain and Who'll,
some food regularly from day to day
permitting no stutiing between meals
and not forgetting the benefits tina
{ accrue from frequent changes of die
more especially as regards dinner
, Do this, and your children will liv
to bless you; do otherwise, and G,
peet to see them sickly, with vein
and arteries possessing no resilieney
, with mucous membranes pale habb,
pipes Of lungs that the accident of
, slight cold is sufficient to close, mu
cles of limbs so weak thas exercis
is a penance instead of q pleasure
and flesh so unwholesome that
: pins prick may cause tester, an