New-York tribune., 1900-07-08
dDrnANS EgIEAArn'
SUMMER DIET FOR BABIES.
STRICT ATTENTION SHOULD BE. GIVEN
TO THEIR FOOD AT THIS SEASON.

Those who have made study of dietetics for
children claim that the year-old baby should
still depend upon milk, light broths. with occa-
sional soft egg, rather than fruit breads
cereals. 1t is the baby who "eats everything that
first succumbs TO intestinal trouble, which often
during these hot days terminates in death. Sugar
should be carefully used even at this age. it is
liable to ferment In the almentary canal and pro
duce abnormal digestion. a disease which,
established, is most difficult to overcome. Sugars
and starches heat and force foods and cannot
be used tissue building foods consequently milk
IS necessary and must be used Where it does not
agree with the child it is either strong too
much diluted. 1t should be changed until it is ex-
acty right
The eighteen months old child. cutting teeth,
must be regularly fed, and 1t may begin to
| take little solid food. For early breakfast the
child may have slice Of whole wheat bread.
toasted brown and crisp broken into half pint of
good milk to which has been added tablespoonful
may be slowly taken. At 10 a. m. give half pint
matted milk dissolved in half water. Dinner at
may consist of half pint Of chicken, mutton
oatmeal has been cooked and strained out also a
sth small slice OF whole wheat bread, well buttered
JJunket or the same amount Of rice pudding:
9;, 1llk, 10 which has been added teaspoonfu of
This diet may be alternated at breakfast with the
y yOIK OF t-6oiIed egg. with bread and butter
night with slice of bread and butter and a glass
w" years olu uuI4HS lHe not
nohths good nitrogenous food, lean meats. beef
l9 ana mutton eggs milk few ripe fruits and simply
cereals breads, except whole wheat bread in small
quantity and underground or abrous vegetables
must not be used. Avoid too much bulk especially
IN Iruit or in starches Teach the child from the
nIHI f 10 use no sugar on fruits. Do not sprinkle
saiI san and pepper over everything, 1t teaches
cloren RI 70 crave stimuants and irregular foods.
Many phy sicians differ upon the question the
value OF fruit as food for children Some say It is
dangerous, others scout the theory that 1t gem
ciast expresses ,f i fbia IL J one spe-
P9fiD frlf+ of IrYy,1
is mans natural food You hear of children hav-
| ing stomach ache from eating green apples. green
or old WaternelOns, or bad fruit, and il is joke
rom one end of the world 10 the other But they
cont die. If they had died there would not have
neen fruit bearing tree left the earth by this
Other physicians claim that fruit eaten in the
c-.Les aLd that freshly gathered in the country
1t is generally conceded that if carefully fed. a
sorne main fo"5s ID fT sllIItlI!es OF Whoe5
unWholesome mixtures It is the lily fed stomach
that has the languid craving for confectons.
1t has been computed that about seventy babies
are born into the world every minute more than
one Tor every beat Of the clock. and a well known
stat1stcian has taken the trouble calculate that
could the infants of a year be ranged in line in
cradles the cradles would extend around the world
the fafb t6aI- ieir ~ $s lI$s ABOUT babes is
eaGth we're once bahies, and the chances are that
women much like those about us. Yet in the most
baby OF the present viii develop into some superior
gamblers faith and faith that instead of S0fS DYING Gg
Gut as the child grows up into q commonplace
Fhopqsehold person merely changes its object and
IalIs upon the baby of this baby in still stronger
decree for grandmother's faith seems to BE- II
anything, more implicit than that of a mother
In Spain the infants face is swept with pine
bough to bring it good luck.
In Ireland belt OF woman's hair Is pIaced about
a child TO keep harm away
Garlic, salt bread and steak are put into the
cradle Of a new born baby in Holland
he CTTaCt
the cradle, turns three times around before the
spirits. - ~ oii eNil
The Turkish mother loads her child with anlrlets
as soon as II is born. and a small bit of mud
steeped IN hot water, prepared by previous charms
Is stuck its forehead. maj ms
AT the birth OF child in lower Brittany the
neighboring women take 1t in charge wash n
crack us joints and rub its head with oil to solder
the Uranium bones. 1t is then wrapped in a tight
pu4dle ana its lips are anonted with brandy to
make IT a fun Breton. -
In the Vosges peasant children born at the
new moon are supposed to have tongues better
hung than others while those born at the last
quarter are supposed to have less tongue but better
reasoning powers. A daughter born during the
waning moon is always precocous.
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