The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-12
FOR FEMININE READERS
A MOTHER WHO BELIEVES IN FEED
ING HUNGRY BOYS WELL.
Inexpensive Christmas Gifts-What
Women Are wcaring-How to Dress
the Hair-From Here and There.


II don't object to his eating between
meals" says mother in Table Talk,
speaking of the appetites of growing boys.
ut is a proof of good health and the tact
of the cook Boys are like robins and
ground squirrilst they will eat every hour
of the day and grow plump for the license.
If can insure total abstinence for just two
hours, or a trihe less, before a meal is to
be served, have no fear of loss of appe-
tite on the part of the boy. Boys are hol-
low clear to their toes, as far as I have
observed. and more boys are underfed than
overfed. Take jams and jeilies, now What
boy does not delight in these? How often
the poor, tempted and tried little mortal is
pictured on a surreptitionS climb to the top
shelf after the forbidden goodies, while a
sly elder guardian is slipping UP behind him
with threatening rod. L keep the jams and
jellies on low, unguarded shelf. another
& trap for the boys. give them all they
want especially one of them, who never
tires of these boiled down juices. He will
eat small cupful of jelly with some slices
of stale bread at one sitting, and never
mistrust that the jelly was the decoy to get
the bread eaten. make several gallons of
jelly for this particular boy every season,
and happy is the jelly time The boy
stands over the foaming kettle, spoon in
hand, ready for the testing I dip spoon
full after spoonful into his saucer at every
stage Of the boiling down process, and the
dear chap tastes, and gives me the result
of his best judgment, and smiles, and be-
smears his face and the window sill and
the table. If could bottle up all the hap
piness of jelly time which l have expert
enced with this boy. that 1 might uncork it
for the cheer of old age, old age would be
redolent of sweeter thoughts than the in
experienced can possibly conjecture.
The idea of giving boy all the jelly he
wants." someone eXclaimS. Besides the
waste of it, it is morally wrong"
20, well, l have nothing to say to that. I
only know that my boys like jelly, and fruit
is healthful and plenty and / am happy, and
the Th9e boys are happy my piaym1ates my com,
loaves of light bread Just out of the oven.
Is 1T possible one does not know how
luscious is the crust from the top, broken
from the bit of irregular rising that baked
in the act? One loaf shall be picked by the
boys to their hearts content while l SNUG
nothing like it. Suppose / make one loaf on
purpose for the boys to pick at this stage
of its perfectness, the boys will not be
ruined by my indulgence, and l shall have
the satisfaction of feeling sure that never
a loaf as long as they live will be just like
Mothers
mere IL 81 IuuCH run MISSED Dy the
mother who feels it her duty to deny her
boys just the very things they most desire.
It's don't eat this, and don't eat that, and
it will make you sick, Willie and all the
rest of it, Willie doubtless wonders why his
good mother persists in cooking things that
will make him sick 1 believe more boys
are made sick in heart and body more by
what is denied them than by what is given
them. Besides being good for the boys, as
l take it, it is good for the mothers to make
a 'Jollyfcation of cooking. day Don't look
glum, and tired, and suspicious and scOld-
ing, when you draw out of the oven those
things which the healthy average boy
Graves, more than he Graves learning or
piety. or wealth, or station in life. Boys are
scoded too much, and sent out of the house
too much, and suppressed too much, as if
they were not wanted especially if they
happen to want something to eat between
meals, or more sweet things at meals than
people who have had their last sweet teeth
Drawn by the grudging years deem it proper
Tor them to have. If sugar is too refined
and dangerous for the boy let him have
plenty of honey, is my motto, and honey
will preserve him heart and sdul. No dam
GER