Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-11-13
THE PROPER FOOD FOR A CHILD.
NM. 8. I. Rorcr In The Ladies' Home Journall


WHEN SOLID ROOD NAY BE GIVEN.
The eighteen-months child, cutting
teeth, must be regularly fed. You may
now begin TO add little solid food. For
breakfast ut Z A. II. give alice OF whole
wheat bread toasted brown and crisp,
broken into half q pint of good milk, to
which has been added tablespoonful Of
cream. With the toast cup or glass OF
milk may be slowly taken. AT 10 A. u.
give half q pint OF milk, to which has
been added . teaspoonful of matted milk
dissolved In hot water. Dinner 1t may
consist Of half pint Of chicken, mutton
or beef broth, In which an ounce of rice
has been cooked, also q small alice OF
whole wheat bread well buttered, after
which you may give an after-d'nner
coffee cup Of cup custard or junket, or
the same amount Of rice pudding. For
supper ut 8 O'Clock give eight ounces OF
milk.
This diet may be continued, alternst-
Ing for breakfast With the yolk Of soft
boiled egg with bread and butter and II
glass Of milk; or the egg may be given
1t night with slice of bread and butter
and glass OF milk. The child should
go TO bed at 6, and II he should waken
ut or 10 O'Clock give him q drink OF
water, turn him over and allow him to
90 to sleep. This plan may be followed
for months.
WHEN THE CHILD Is TWENTY MONTHS
OLD.
When the child Is twenty months old
he may have for his breakfast two table
spoonfuls Of well-cooked wheat germ
foods or farina, with four tablespoonfuls
Of cream; glass Of milk; slice Of
whole-wheat bread, buttered. Or soft
boiled egg and bread and butter and \
glass OF milk. For dinner, at IL or
O'Clock, half q pint OF broth, tiny
minced broiled chop, or scrxped meat
cake, or little finely chopped chicken
and slice OF whole wheat bread and
butter. Or sll meat may be omitted, and
cup custsrd, junke,, or rice and milk be
used, milk and egg taking the place Of
meat. For supper, milk toast, or bresd
and milk with little cream added, will
suffice. Such meal will secure q good
nights sleep.
FROM TWO TO FOUR, AND FROM POUR
To SIX.
when a child IL from two to four years
old gradually Increase the variety, using
about the following: For breakfast, four
tablespoonful Of well-cooked cereal
with cresp; 4 slice of hard-tossted or
pulled bread, well buttered, and half n
pint of milk. Let this be the daily break
fast. Give variety by changing the
cereal. For dinner, cup OF clear broth,
taken from the cup or slipped with a
spoon; give no bread with this: little
rare roasted, boiled or brolled beef. NUT
ton. or carefully and well-cooked chick
en-. or small piece Of white fieshed fab
hroiled; n tablespoonful OF boiled sud
dry rice, or baked potato with dish
gravy; a little lettuce finely shredded; q
cup Of jauket or custard, or rice and
milk, as before. For supper, bread and
milk or soft-boiled egg and bread and
butter, with n glass Of milk or bowl
OF junket.
when the child Is between four and
six years Of age do not change the even
ing hour OF feeding. All children are
healthy and happy with an early bed
hour. | should not allow children TO
stay up 20 the night meal until they are
At least ten years OF age.
For breakfast, q well-cooked cereal
and cream, or baked apple, or prunes,
peaches or grapes; an egg or chop, or
small bit OF white. fieshed fish broiled, or
= little chopped chicken In cream sauce.
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mutton, or little chicken or white fish ;
an occasional syeetbread (; rice or potato.
or simply cooked nacsroni, or hominy ;
one OF these only st = meal; Il Ia better
to hsve one each dsy, and thus give vsri-
ETY.; celery, spinach, cauliflower care
fully cooked; lettuce with little oil
and y drop OF lemon juice should be sdd-
ed daily; the same light desserts with
water as drink; not milk. Mix IA q
food, and should not be used with meat.
Do not use potatoes more than twice &
week, and slwsys baked, or mashed and
Drowned. For supper, eggs poached or
soft boiled, or milk toast or junket, or
milk; bread and butter with prune
sOuiile, prune jelly or baked apple.
NORMAL CHILDREN PREFER PLAIN
FOOD.
For Older children good heterogeneous
food, "a lean meats, beef and mutton,
eggs, milk, few ripe fruits, and simply
cooked green foreground vegetables are
called for. Cereals, breads, except whole
wheat bread In small quantity, and un-
derground or fibrous vegetable must not
be used. Avoid too much bulk. Bear
10 mind that In childhood nutrition must
not only repair wear and tear OF tissue,
which Is great 10 an active child, but
must also provide for the increase In size
and development. II carefully fed q
normal child will eat goodly quantities
Of wholesome, plain food, and will
esehew unnatural and unwholesome