Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-08-11
SUMNER DIET FoR BABIES.

SUMNER DIET FOR BABIES.
Those who have made study of die
fctics for children claim that The year
old baby should still depend upon milk,
light broths, with an occasional soft egg,
rather than on fruit, breads or cereals.
1t is the baby Who eats everything
that first succumbs to mites iinal trouble.
which so often during these hot days ter
inmates in death. Sugar should be care
fully used, even at this age, as 1t IS liable
to ferment in the alimentary canal and
produce abnOrE II digestion, Il disease
which, once established, is most difficult
to overcome. Sugars and starches are
heat and force foods and cannot be used
as tissue building foods, consequently
milk is necessary and must be used.
Where it does not agree with the child it
is either too strong or too much diluted.
1t should be- changed until it is exactly
right
The lS-months-old child, cutting teeth,
must be regularly fed. and it may now
begin to take a little solid food. For an
early breakfast the child may have a slice
of whole wheat bread. TOASTED brown and
crisp, broken into half a pint OF good
milk to which has been added table
spoonful of cream. With the toast n
cup or glass of milk may be slowly TAX
eli. AT 10 Il. III. give half pint Of milk,
to which has been added teaspoonful
of matted milk dissolved in half water.
Dinner at l may consist of half Il pint
of chicken, mutton or beef BROTH in
which an ounce of barley, rice or oat
aneal has been cooked and strained out,
also small slice Of whole wheat bread,
wei buttered, with an after-dinner cof-
fee-cup Of custard or junket or the same
amount of rice pudding. Supper at ;
o'clock may consist of eight ounces of
mill "a. NH oh l.
spoonful Of dissolved matted milk.
This diet may be alternated at break.
fast with the yolk OF II soft boiled egg
with bread and butter and n glass of
milk; or the egg may be given Mt night
with slice of bread and butter and
glass Of milk.
For children over , years old during
the hot months good heterogeneous food
as lean meats. beef and mutton, eggs,
milk. few ripe fruits and simply cooked
green top ground vegetables are called
for. Cereals. breads except whole wheat
bread in small quantities, and uuder-
ground or hbrous vegetables must not be
used. Avoid too much bulk. especially
IN fruit or in starches. Teach the child
from the first to use no sugar on fruits
DO not sprinkle salt and pepper over
everything. rs II teaches children to
crave stimulantS and irregular foods.
Many physicians differ upon the cues
ton of the value of fruit as food for
children. Some say it is dangerous,
others scout the theory that it generates
p0isonOus gases in the stomach. One
specialist expresses il in this fashion.
Children have come down the ages eat
ing fruit of every kind 1t is mans nat
urai food. You hear of children having
stomach ache from eating green appIes
green or old watcrmelonS. or bad fruit
aud II is a joke from one end of the
world TO the other. But they don't die
IL they had died there would not have
been a fruit-bearing tree left on the earth
by this time.
Other physicians claim that fruit eaten
IN the cities and that freshly gathered in
the country are two entirely different
considerations.
Il Is generally conceded that. If caro-
fully fed, normal child will eat goodly
quantities of wholesome. plain foods. nnd
VIII cschew unnatural and unwholesome
mixtures; 1t Is the illyfed stomach thai
haS the lAnguid craving for confcrtions
1t has been computed that about seven.
~ babies are born into the world every
minute, or more than one for every bent
OF the clock, and wtl-known statisti.
can has taken the trouble to calpnlato
that. could the infants of year be
fnGgea Ill line in cradles. the cradles
would extend around tne world
One of the most wonderful thipgs
about babies is The faith they inSpire
All persons now upon the earth were
once babies. and the chances are Thar
the babies of today will grow up into
men and women much Ike those
about us. Yet III maS: npssimistic
mothers mind-there is a !nrting
belief that the baby of the nres'
enf will develop into some SUPERIOR
klnd of person of The future She has
sort OF gamblers faith. and a faith that.
instead Of dying out a3 the child grows
up into commonplace household person
merely changes It's object and falls upon
The baby of this baby in still stronger
degree, for grandma hers faith seems
60 be, if anything, more implicit than
that of IL mother.
In Spain the infants face is swept
with pine bough To bring il good luck.
In Ireland a belt OF womans hair is
placed about child to keep harm away.
Garlic, sal. bread and steak are put
INTO the cradle Of new born baby in
Holland.
The Grecian mother before putting he,
child in the cradle, turns three times
around before the fire while singing her
fayorlte song to ward off evil spirits.
The Turkish mother loads her child
with arnue as soon as it is born and a
small bit Of mud. stepped in hot water.
prepared by previous charms, is stucl.
on its forehead
AT the birth of child in lower Brit
tany the neighboring women take il in
charge, wash it, crack its joints and rub
aus head with oil to solder the Uranium
bones. 1t is then wrapped in a tigh,
bundle, and its lips are anointcd with
brandy TO make it n full Breton
In the Nosges peasant children born
AT the new moon are supposed TO have
tongues better hung than others, while
'hese born at the last quarter are sun
posed to have less tongue but better rca-
sohing powers. n daughter born dur
ing the waning moon is always nrrCn.
Fious.-New York Tribune.
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