The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-07-26

The improper diet of infants anC
children is probably even more damag-
ing than bad hygienic surroundings
Food may be unsuitable in many ways
Among the very poor and ignoran
classes it often happens that the babg i:
allowed the same food, whatever it may
be. that the family have. But among
those who are not poor, and who are
eager to do the best for their children
much harm is done through ignorance
and misguided zeal. 4 multitude Of
foods are prepared with great care fol-
children which are either worthless OF
almost certain TO irritate their digestive
organs. Probably the two commonest
errors are in the use of foods excessive
Iv starchy and the making them too
concentrated or rich, in the idea that
they are thus more nutritious, the
makers being entirely ignorant of the
absolute necessity that the food of young
children should be thin liqnid.
But even the diet of a child ted natur-
ally may be bad. Good breaSt-milk is
the best food for a young child. but the
breast-inilk may iail to be good for vari-
Gus reasons. The health of the mother
or nurse may have been impaired and
the milk have been poor from the begin
ming. or it may have deteriorated simply
from the age of the breast.-BGbyh0od.
When properly made, milk-toast is a
most satisfactory supper for babies over
two years old. Pare away the crusts
from slices of stale, light, sweet bread
and with cake cutter or sharp edged
tumbler cut each of these into a round,
coeky-shaped p ece.
(They taste better TO baby-and to
bigger children-in this form than in
the rect lngu ar slice. | know Ole baby,
twenty years of age, who when appetite
flags begs for round cream toast such
as mamma used to make for us when we
were wee bits of things.'1
Spread the rounds on platter; set
them on tho oven a few minutes
until they begin to roughen all over.
Then toast then quickly over clear
fire, and scrape off every burnt cruHib
to bring the surface to uniform shade
of yellow brown. Dip each piece, as it
is taken from the toaster, for hasty
second into boiling water (salted) butter
lightly, and pile them in bowl. Cover
out OF sight with scalding milk, also
sailed, fit on close top to the bowl,
and set in a pan of boiling water in a
pretty brisk oven for fifteen or twenty
minutes. The process will yield dish
so unlike the insipid stuff accepted and
eaten under the name of dip" or "soft
toast" or milk" as to Justify to be-
holders and eater the expenditure of
thought and pains required for its pro-
duction. Babies soon discriminate be-
tween Illnesses" and dainty, delicate
food, none the less delicious because the
ingredients are simple and inexpensive
Ii you can instead of the scalding milk
use half-cre m and half-milk, the toast
is still more nutritious and paiatable.-
Marion Harland. in Babyho0d.
The onion fly is well known for its
depredations. Its natural history can
hardly be of as much concern TO the
farmer as the tried method of its ex-
tirpation. Both the natural history of
and the remedy for the pest are to be
found in .the followingst tement of Miss
Ormond well known English entomol-
ogist. She says: The amount of damage
to onion crops from the maggot is fire.
fuently so great that for some years l
have been experimenting on the sub
ject l found that the fly, (when il
Could) laid its eggs on some exposed
parts of the lulb, often almost beneath
1t. which rim common practice the ex-
posed state of the onion bulb allows.
On noticing this, about three years ago
| covered plant up to the neck of the
bulbs, and the next morning found fly
eggs on the onion leaves, and dropped
at haphazard on the ground-where
they persisted, and the onions being
saved from attack, did well The fol
lowing year l had some part of the crop
in rows earthed up with success. The
onions were firm and sweet, and though
not as thoroughly protected by the
rough earthing up as by my own hand
dressing it answered to some extent,
and the onions in many cases were not
injured, or grew past attack from being
in favorable conditions. This year /
had a trench dug as If for celery, and
had the onions sOwn along the bottom
and as they grew the sides of the trench
were filled in on the bulbs. They grew
extremely well, notably better than
those in the beds alongside, and on rails
ing them to-day find hem sound and
fine bulbs, very free from any mark of
insect injury. I venture to submit this
plan of growing to Your inspection, as,
though It probably could not be brought
to bear in the field use. it appears avail
able for garden growth, and especially
for cottage gardens, where there is only
small quantity of ground, and where
the loss of the little crop is a serious
lessening Of comfort to the family"
Mrs. o. +. Reynolds. of Lafayette,
Ind, is the American Baroness Bur
dett-Coutts. She is fifty-six years old
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