Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-25
WHEN TO DRINK WATER.
IRY DIR. LOCKWOOD


healthy COWS, not of one COW, but of
more if possible, but not full strength,
for COWS milk is more concentrated
than human milk, so it should be
diluted with water
COMPOSITION OF MILK.
Fluid Solids Sugar Butter
G Gs~'. n mix So So II ~ 8 s g
Now studying the above to deter
mine what may be added to cows
milk to make it like human milk, we
find that if one quarter water be added
to cows milk it will satisfy the indie
atoms of the first two and last columns
and then the third sugar: one tea
spoonful to every or 6 ounces. Now
raise the milk to the temperature of
the blood and it initiates closely to
mother milk.
Says good authority: "Infants
do well on milk one-half diluted with
water at birth, up to full strength at
six months old''
| must here endeavour to correct
the idea that "cream or concentrated
milk is better than simple milk because
richer" 1t is too rich, too compact,
too "heavy." When it strikes the
stomach it can not be easily attacked
by the juices of that organ but is either
vOmited up as curd or passes as indi-
gested fragments. Now, if these small
PARTICLES of casein In the milk were
well separated from each other by
plenty of water, they would be acted
upon individually, not as mass. If
it is introduced into the stomach as a
compact mass, it is acted upon as a
mass and remains a mass, but when
well diluted, the digestive fluids
pemeate easily and act upon each
particle separately and they remain
separated.
Should the bottle fed infant become
constipated, there is nothing so good
as to increase the amount of water in
its food. By thus flooding the system
you increase all the secretions and
that moistens the contents of the
bowels and facilitates their progress
and expulsion.
At tender age, the youth of our
land is permitted, induced in some in
stances to drink, in the place of pure
cold water, an infusion made by steep
ing drug in hot water for time, to
extract from that drug its active prin-
cipal. That same drug is used as a
remedy for certain forms of headache
and if dose were given late in the
day, it will make people lose their
nights rest, and given in the morning
after one has been deprived of sleep
for two or three nights, it will tide
them over that day greatly opening
the feeling of fatigue. This last is the
effect upon those whose systems are
not already accustomed to the use of
it. Now drug so powerful as that,
should not be thrown into the system
of growing child. A drug that will
successfully counterfeit the effects of a
poisonous dose of opium, as strong
coffee has often done, ought not to be
administered two or three times day
to child whose organs are passing
through the stages of development,
when nature should be permitted to
construct that child without the in.
fuence of any powerful drug taken in
to the system daily. Parents! Would
you like to see your six year old boy
with a pipe or cigar in his mouth?
No! that would be terrible, yet dare
say that cup of coffee is taking in
effect; not in degree, but in kind.
To there no difference between water
and tea or coffee? Is water so scarce
that you are driven to accept an in
ferior substitute? Are the cares of
childhood SO great that they need a
balm, soothing influence from with
out to assist them to weather through?
The inebriate browns care and sorrow
in the ''cup." The smoker lies hours
away by putting at pipe and tea
drinkers STEADY their nerves. with
their narcotic, but what has the grow
ing, robust child to do with these thing?
And then how handy is nicely pre-
pared cup of coffee and the spoon with
it, to acquire the habit of 'ssipping"
as you eat; most pernicious habit.
Parents! strive to keep from your
children, not only alcoholic liquors
and tobacco, but as well, tea and
coffee. You can not measure the
effect of these habits on a child, you
never have been permitted to see a
child that has been accustomed to these
thing. all through its growing period
compared with that same child not
having had them, so you know not the
effect it has produced. See how the
habit of smoking is acquired. See
what gauntlet the boy runs when he
tries to smoke the first cigar. See
how thoroughly unnatural his system
declares it to be. He is taking into
his system powerful emetic-see that
blanched face-Oh! so sick he is! but
sit is the first cigar. he will Get over