Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-01
CHiLDRzN's APPET,1Es
eome Sound Advice on a Matter Of More
Than Ordinary Importance

Than Ordinary Importance.
while some children eat daintily
and seem to know when thew have
enough, there are others who eat
raveno lsly at the table and seem to be
eating all the time between meals.
This, think, is an unnatural state If
Things. Animals in their youthful
days are inclined to over-eat, but an
animal worth raising is carefully
guarded SO that it does not over-eat.
should not these children be as care
iully watched as animalsp It is too
oIten habit acquired by food being
easy OF access, or over-indulgent pa
rents, who, as soon as a child frets.
give 1t something to eat to pacify it,
until from an overloaded stomach it
Is fretful and cross, and the more IL
eats the more uncomfortable it be-
comes.
could not help contrast the man
ner OF very rich lady with her three
boys with that of others l have seen
since.
Ihey have very comfortable
breakfast at seven o'clock in the
morning. lunch at twelve, which
usually consisted OF potatoes, rice,
cold sliced meat, milk, bread and but
ter; at five o'clock a plate piled high
with sliced bread and butter and three
glasses OF water were carried to the
nursery, and they were allowed to eat
all they wanted Of it; at half-past five
the two youngest, aged five and seven,
were put to bed the Oldest, nine years
old, was allowed to be up till seven.
The family dinner was at six, and if
the dessert was light pudding, fruit
and nuts, occasionally the boys were
allowed to come down to dessert, but
retired as soon as it was over.
"Do you never allow them piece
between mealsP' asked tn mother
one day.
"Oh, yes, there are some crusts OF
bread on a shelf by the nursery door
that they can have whenever they are
hungry"
"What, those hard things?" I asked
in amazement. for thought they were
some crusts that had lain there a Ion @
time and been forgotten.
"Yes," she replied, ''if they are
hungry they will sit down and gnaw
away at crust and enjoy it, and it is
good for their teeth"
saw them many times get one OF
those crusts and gnaw at it as if it
were candy, and thought how raany
mothers would give their children a
great piece of pie, cake or bread and
butter thick with jam, jelly or mo-
lasses. The crusts did not take away
the appetite for the next meal, while
such large lunch as the other would
answer for a meal.
Depend upon it. that children raised
on some system of self-denial are much
happier, much better in disposition
and health than those allowed to graf
ify every appetite.
Take notice for yourself, some time
when you are travelling, and you will
soon notice the difference between the
children who eat from the time they
get on the cars to the time they get off,
and those who eat nothing upon the
journey only at regular meal times
Children need good, plain food,
plenty of fruit, but all kinds of rich
pastry, gravy and knick-knacks of
every kind they are much better with
out.
The food we eat is largely RESPONSE
BILE for the diseases with which SO
many are troubled, and also for the
disposition; so the palmer it is, the
freer We shall be from the many ills to
which mortal flesh is heir.-Ladies'
Home Communion.