The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-10
Il Letter From q Father.

I HAVE just read with considerable
i interest the article signed by Moth
er" in Talks With Parents" L
must say that my sympathy with
the mother is entirety overshadowed by
that for the boy. Doubtless, with the
best OF intentions. the boy is being
of disagreeables. 1t would be hard to
imagine what my boy would develop
Into if | followed the same system.
Think of the poor little fellow-hot wa
ter, milk spoiled with whitewaSh, break
last food for breakfast, soup for din
ner and sour stomach for supper
Wen; who would not steal cake? 1
would No wonder his teeth go wrong,
with nothing on which to exercise them
but drug store candy!
The want of good. substantial every
Gay food is creating this abnormal APP
petite for sweets. The same want of
proper nourishment often drives boys
and men TO the use of alcoholic liquors.
The observations of many years lead me
TO the belief that sufficiently and prop
eriy fed child Will not crave more sweets
than his stomach can take care of, and
that a sufficiently and properly fed
adult is not liable TO crave liquor.
do not expect TO see this in print but
I have relieved my feelings at any rate.
FATHER.
IMPRIAMS: I DO NOT SEE WHY
Father" should not expect to see SO
good q letter in print If nothing else
commended it to thoughtful readers and
to an Editor, one of whose ''fads" is
that food builds characters as well as
constitutions, the remark that nouriSh-
ing daily fare prevents abnormal crav-
ings should command respect. over one
hundred years ago wise, practical Han
nah More established cooking classes
and wrote penny cook books for the
peasantry and mechanics wives in her
peighborhood.
The Grass ignorance might say the
criminal ignorance-on this head preva-
lent among the middle classes and the
really poor of her and our own country
is responsible for more saloons and cor
ner grog hells than temperance unions
guess at.
A noon dinner bolted by the boy who
has run home to eat il, and runs back
to the playground or to lessons the mo-
ment he has 'cnAcked" it into his stom-
ach, is difficult of digestion when the
materials OF which il is composed are
good and the cooking is fair. Tough
meats, made tougher by frying, with
cred or canned vegetables, half done
and undrained, and leathery pastry in
suit the digestive apparatus into active
or suilen protest.
Natures revenge. when the protest is
active, is q bilious attack or nausea,
which elects the offending matter. In
sevea-tenths of such cases the protest
is slower and more malignant. The
stomach demands satisfaction. The boy
buys medica ted-that is, poisoned candy.
and gets the baser. because the cheaper.
sort. The man goes out for pick
me-up," and, after sundry repetitions OF
the remedy, usually finds out that the
name has double meaning.
Were | TO add TO several other avoca-
tons that of temperance lecturer, this
would be the backbone of every speech:
Feed husbands and boys properly,
..s..a i've nd a - To-
uor saloon" More men are driven than
drawn from their homes. You shelter
yours girls; that is right Shelter. coax
FEED your boysi The threefold cord
is needed TO keep them where you would
have them stay, and as you would have
them be.