The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-02-14
The Diet OF Children.

Permitting children to sit at table with
their elders is the cause of good deal
of mischief and injury to their youthful
digestions. A variety of dishes should |
never be permitted, and any attempt at |
wasteiulness should be checked ut once. |
Economy and self-denial can be taught
at the chidren's table far more easily
han at school.
The diet of children can hardly be too
plain. If they need TO be encouraged to
eat by the administration of dainties,
there must be something radically
wrong somewhere. 1t IS unlikely that
that something is constitutional, more
probably insufficient exercise is taken,
or taken at wrong times, or the nursery
is stuffy, or the bedroom badly vcnti-
lated, or the parents have forgotten that
sunshine and fresh air are as necessary
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 Indifferent appetite in children. With
out cleanliness of clothes and cleanliness
of person you can not have healthy chill
dren. Without this the young blood
seems poisoned, the child has neither
buoyancy nor heart, appetite is de.
praved or absent, and he grows up as
pale and poor as sickly plant.
Injudicious clothing is another cause
of dyspepsia. 1t Is bad enough to en-
case the body which has attained its
full development in tight dress, but it
is ruinous for child TO be clothed in
tightly-litting garments. Every organ OF
child's body requires room to grow
and expand; if it be in any way com.
pressed, the circulation through it be-
comes lessened, and it is therefore
sicklied and rendered weak.
Tightness, therefore, of any portion
of u chld's clothing ruins not only the
organ directly underneath the constric-
ton, but indirectly those at q distance
from it, for no damming up of the cir
cuation can be tolerated by nature
Tightness around the waist in children
and young people is the cause of many
cases of dyspepsia, and in II lesser de-
gree so is tightness of the neckerchief
by retaining the blood in the brain
Have your children's clothing loose,
then, ii you would see them healthy
and happy. See, too, that at nigh
thew sleep not on feather beds, and that
though warmly, they are not heavily
clothed.
Children should be fed with grea
regularity day by day. The parents, hav
inc chosen the hours for dinner, break
fast and tea, ought to sec that the time
are strictly adhered to.
Irregularity in meal hours and time
of getting up in the morning and retir
ing to bed at night is not only prejr
4 dicial to the present health of n child
$ but it teaches him habits which al
= greatly against his chances OF success
:. after life.
+. need hardly speak here about Il
+ quality of the food that Is placed b
+ fore u child; against indigcstible or I,
:, rich food, against sauces and spices
|, all kinds, including curries; again
e heavy foods of the pancake, dough NJ
|; dumping kind, against unripe fruit
ct against too hot soup, against strong Il
IF or coffee, or beer, or against over 'mut
i butchers meet
1t Pray, mothers, do not forget that {
interval of rest should ensue betwet
the meals you give your children, ~
II do not ruin their young digestions
examining them with cake, or buns,
Ic sweets of any kind. To do so is wor
It than cruc', il is sill, and sin Whit
N YOU are but little likely to commit
you truly love them, and really wish
cs see them generate into strong al
Ii. healthy men and women. Tarts a,
ng sweets and confectionery would be b
lie enough in all conscience for chldrt
nd | even if they were always pure and u
it. adulterated. But they are too oft
H. positively poisonous. Feed on plain q
o. wholesome food regularly from day
in day, permitting no stutling betwC
lie meals, and not forgetting the benel
g that accrue from frequent changes
re diet, more especially as regards dinn'
4. DO this, and your children will 1.-Two
er bless you; do otherwise, and expect
d. see them sickly, with veins and arterl
~ possessing no rcsiliency, with muco
IN membranes pale and ilabby, pipes
G, lungs that the accident of a slight ca
w is sufficient to close, muscles of lin
a. so weak that exercise is penance
n, stead of pleasure, and flesh so u
re wholesome that pins prick my eau
Id q tester, and all this because the bio
il is impoverished through errors in di
nd --CasSelrS Magazine.
ct Mcissonier's Dog and NelatOnS =
rye
re A pet dog of the painter Nelson
Oh one day broke his leg, rendered frli
ons by over-lceding. Meissoncr, desoli
fec by such an accident to so beloved
,ao animal rosolvpd tn have recourse to