The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-24

health. and were once thought to be
sin. Thus. in ve-y many cases. the
drunkard-that is, the periodical
drunkarc-is understood to be afflicted
with disease, which is as insufferab bic
to himself as to those who best love
him, and when he finds this out and
submits 70 treatment. as for disease,
he is more often cured than otherwise.
We lately read of a case where a
child developing kleptomania was
cured by a rich diet, with great deal
of sugar, the naughtiness being occa-
stoned by a defect in the blood, for
which she was not responsible. We
ourselves have known an exceedingly
nervous and irritable child of poor pa
rents ordered, with good results, to
eat nuts in quantity. the system need
ing the oil to be had in that way, and
TO be had in such small portions at a
time as to be easily absorbed and as
simulated. in order to feed and appease
the nerves And we all know that
nervous patients are given rich food,
with much milk and eggs, and that the
modern treatment of the insane is of
the same character.
Many a forward and disagreeable
child might be transformed into gentle
anna bility if all this were remembered,
and its food were made not merely de
gestible, but nourishing to that por-
ton of it's frame most in need of nour-
ishment! A low state OF the blood
seems to mean low state OF the whole
system, involving the mental and the
moral as well as the physical, and
often showing, in the first two rather
than in the latter, anemia-by which
we mean an insufficient supply of the
red globules of the blood, having i'm
poverishing effect upon one organ or
another, now those which minister to
the merely physical wants, now those
that have to do with the moral life,
now with the brain and the nervous
and intellectual life
Something of the consequences of
this evil can be frustrated by a watch
full observance of the food we give our
children, and the result of this or that
pabulum. Some food, seemingly hearty
and sufficient, may be of sort they do
not assimilate, and is therefore of no
use to them at all, and it is only by
observation that we can discover that
which makes blood and flesh for them,
and that from which they extract only
enough nourishment to support life,
leaving them a prey to the ravages OF
the enemy. Thus many child is re-
ally starving in the midst of plenty.
He is given everything that is hearty
and plain, but his system Graves the
sweetmeat; or he is fed on delicacies,
and needs grains and rich meat juices
The mother who allows her little girl
to hurry off to school after sip of tea
or milk, carrying bit of bread and
butter in her hand, having provided
herself with no fuel for the days fires,
and lets it go on so day after day, very
likely with a sort of vanity in the
child's lack of robust appetite, will
nave occasion soon to feel a CORE
spending vanity in the child's delicate
look, and need not be surprised if her
insufficient breakfast, eaten in nerv-
GUS haste, has laid the foundation of
ailments that will harass their pos
SCISSOR for the rest of her life. What
perhaps no doctor can cure, the mother
could have prevented by good break
fast eaten slowly, by a sufficient
luncheon. bv an effort to find ont