New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-12


FTcIAL FOR THIN OR FRAIL CHILDREN
LEG NIGHTGowNs TO SLEEP IL.
Many young mother desires to feed her little
ones the best strengthening and bone-making
food in her power. but is puzzled know just what
they require. says Carrie May Ashton i'm Trained
Motherhood"
How often We hear mother wondering why
her baby is not stronger when he continues to gain
i'm weight. Flesh Is no indication of strength and
tho largest. heaviest people are seldom those who
can endure tn most. Potatoes contain too much
starch and too little nutrimcnt be good for
young children. especially those who have teeth
but few.
1T is much safer not to feed any potato to babies
unde' two years old" one physician stated recently
TO young mother. Good milk is considered the
best fool for children but it is Of the question
to get pure, unadulterated milk in places, and
in this some Of the prepared foods are safer
and more satisfactory What is one mans meat
is another mans poison" is true with children
as It is with grown people.
While oatmeal Cruel. or mush. is considered
very nutritious food for some children. there
others VINO cannot stard It at all 1t rritates the
stomach and bowels and acts Ike poison to the
system. Al oatmeal, to be 0igestibc, should be
cooked slowly several hours
Graham cruel is an excellent fool for many chill
dren and very easily digestcd. All graham -four
should be sifcd before using. In making graham
cruel stir the -four slowly into boiling water or
milk, and beat or stir rapidly with spoon to pre-
vent its being lumpv. and never Jet it stop boiling
Let ii cook eight ten minutes. then thin with
new milk and add about teaspoonful Of sugar to
pint OF Cruel. Pour in bowls enough for the day
cover and put away IN Il cool place until ready TO
warm and use.
one baby Of fifteen months. who has always
been perfectly well. has lived mainly graham
Cruel since he was ten months ola. He eats four
lt,ttr
the morning. $50 20 and $50 at night. His first
meal consists of a g.ass Ct warm milk, piece Of
entire wheat bread without butteD. and some
Battle Creek cream sticks about the size OF bread
or cheese sticks lie takes nearly pint Of graham
Cruel for his next meal and glass OF milk and
some entire wheat bread at go o'clock He has
cruel again AT his last meal cream sticks and
casionaliv little new milk He has never tasted
potato reliable recipe for the entire wheat bread
is given below:
one heapng cup Of graham flour. one cup Of
white flour. two cups of entire wheat -four, two
tablespoonfuls Of sugar, teaspoonful. even OF
salt one-quarter cake Of compressed yeast, dis
solved in one tablespoonful of warm water. Sift
all the flour together. and add the yeast and
enough warm water at bedtime to make stin as
gingerbread. Knead well in the morning. after
adding one tablespoonful Of melted butter Use
white 40 to stifien for kneadng. Let it rise one
and one-haf hours. until very light. Bake from
forty TO fifty minutes
10 bread should be cut the first day. Never give
Il child any kind of bread which is not twenty-four
hours Old. and it is even better to have it older.
Children who troubled with constipation will
be greatly benefited by eating entire wheat bread.
graham Cruel and graham crackers For those
whose bowels too loose cook the Cruel in boil
ing milk instead OF water. and sterze the milk
for drinking \ child whose bowels are regular
will never be- troubled with commissions while teeth
ing Homemade graham crackers are excellent.
and a rcliahl, rule for making them is as follows:
one cup Of sifted graham flour. two-thrds of
cup Of white flour. two tablespoonfuls Of sugar n
dust Of salt two even tabespoonfus OF cold butter
rubbed through the flour and sugar Mix with
sufficient cold water 20 make dough. Roll them
and cut I'm small oblong and round shapes and bake
in quick oven. They should be about as thick as
gingersnaps
Long-slceved nannels Onion suits preferred. are
necessary for the wcllbeing Of every child. Trey
should be Of soft. lightweight flannel that VIII not
Long. Wool stockings AID stout. thicksoled shoes
are an absolute necessity IN cod weather; bIdck
tght, or .ogglrgs Of cloth or leather Will do much
toward keeping the little folks dry and warm in
cold stormy weather
Nightgowns OF flannel or outing flannel are very
important for young children especially those sleep
protection for children who throw off the clothes
and liable ~ get chilled. Young names sittp-
stone i'm "a oase Of outing flannel at their feet \
large bag OF soft flannel fastened around me Wals
,nl,i T'" ro'I n was Impossible to keep them
turked M well and this bag gave them penty OF |
room 10 kick in. Some mothers ma II necessary !
to keep stockings on baoy AT hisht "he" '"0u-
latiOn is not good. Ill.,. % boh,. ar |
The least medicine that can be given p2ny. OF
any one for that matter, the better Tor All con
Se eS There is nothing simpler or more helpful |
FOR y, cold than pure Gable) olive oil teaspoon |
~ San he safely given several times day. but |
one spoonful before going to bed is usually sur.
drient for an ordinary cold. Too mucn OIL i, ap, |
80 MAKO the bowels loose. Many a chid mas noeh |
greatly benefited by cmulsons Of coder oil le Ike
and running down, and whose appeutes are "o'
good. a-ta, go h,h,os and children
Who are frau and Thin Cocoanut ana s"cTt 81
are both good this purpose lhese pains siiou a.,
i','s he Given in "A warm room. usually near an
men crate fire and warm bath blanket OF
an old shawl