Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18

probably alternate with that for meats. Let
nature alone as long as no bad effects fol-
low. Instinct is building up the tissues
better than you know how, and varied are
the materials it must have.
The advice for growing children applies
very well to invalids, especially in regard
to meats. These should be so perfectly free
from gristle and fiber as to melt in the
mouth and give the gastric Juice as little
work as possible. To attain this fabulous
tenderness, meat may be scraped, pounded
in a mortar, or very steadily and slowly
baked in closed stone pot until gristle dis
solves and the fiber gains exquisite savori-
ness and melting quality. The meat taken
out and chopped and restored to its own
gravy is almost perfect nutrition. With
this children should have the best garden
vegetables, well cooked, tomatoes, egg
plant, squash, asparagus, tender carrots and
parsnips, not served with milk sauces, but
stewed down in their own juice with little
meat stock and herb seasoning. The free
use of fresh herbs finely minced in food
will go far to correct humors, prevent
worms, flatulence, bad breath and other
worrying symptoms.
WARM DRINK ADVISED,
If you want plump children, or desire to
round the figures of scrawny girls and boys,
there is a short rule for it. Give them
plenty of warm drink as we'll as food This
does not contradict the prohibition of
sloppy food. To nourish food must be we'll
ground by the teeth, not washed down. But
at intervals of the repast it is grateful to
take generous draughts of hot drink Tempt
children to take as much as three cups of
drink at each meal. One naturally wants
to begin with hearty draught, another
may well be taken at the pause in the mid
die of the meal, and another if liked at the
close. Do not force these things, but have
such tempting variety from time to time
that it is taken without thought. 1 am
quite aware this is contrary to the general
code, but the opinion is framed BY wise
physicians from close observation.
American families need to eat and drink
more than they generally get, and of much
better quality. 1t is obvious that the de-
nunciations of overeating written for the
beef and pudding gorged English have been
applied to our own nation too far. The spare
ness and nervousness of our people have
been discussed without coming to the proper
conclusion, that they need more to eat.
AMERICANS NOT ovERFED.
It Is the exception among American fami-
lies which eat too much, and the meager
critic who is shocked at the hearty appe-
tltes OF her nelghbors could follow their eX-
ample with benefit. The American mother
does not want the trouble of overseeing
much cookery, and the servant is opposed
to anything that makes her more work, the
husband and boys are turned off to restaur-
ants, much as may be, and the restaurant
policy to cut rstions as genteely as possible.
Few are the home tables where the third
cup of coffee would be handed without pro-
test, yet a breakfast or dinner can hardly be
said to be complete without at least three
cups of liquid.
There is comfort and stimulus to the di-
gestion in hot drinks, and athousand thanks
are due him who adds beverage to the
number. Our list of drinks will be much
enlarged in few years as the value of for
eign stimulants becomes known. Why
should we not drink the mate of Paraguay
as an alternative to tea, and have our cup of
guarana or kola nut coffee as we'll as the
common infusions? SHIRLEY DARE.