New-York tribune., 1905-11-06
EATING BETWEEN MEALS.


Eating between meals and overindulgenee in
sugar Dr. Bartley declared very forcibly were
doing untold harm to American children and
future generations OF American adults.
Even the steel axles of railroad cars demand
resi- said he Every engineer knows that
these axles will go a great many more miles IL
their action is interrupted by occasional periods
of rest This law of the demand for rest aIter
action applies to every organ of the animal world
heart lungs and all the rest. II an organ Is
kent constantly overworked injury ensues and,
unless relief comes death. This law. applies
to the vegetable world Greenhouse plants can
he forced by electric light, but only to certain
no,,,t They cannot be kept growing all the
time They must have rest or die Now IN the
face of this universal rule the stomachs OF soile
ebildren are never empty of food. They are
eating something every hour OF the day II ~
for the rest the digestive organs IiI
at night the children would Ole. ana sucn nm I'M,
dren never sleep well at night They start anu
groan and cry out, grit their teeth ana haEe
nightmares Such children also nag their notn-
ers almost to death They the sort of chill
dren who make scenes and are ufillanageapie @ ti
and ungoyernabIe. They nervous. irritable
and bad tempered, and they grow up into dys-
pepfics with the same attributes
Human milk digests and leaves the stomach
emntv in one hour and half Therefore, giving
the stomach half hours rest, the unWeaned
infant should be nursed every two hours;
Cows milk takes little longer to digest ana
the mother should govern the feeding times ac-
cordingly All other food requires still longer
TO digest, and the intervals between means
should he still longer. The object is to get the
stomach entirely emptied of food and give 1t a
short period of entire rest before the child eats
again A child who has begun to eat soId
food should never be allowed to eat anything
between meals except milk
I'm addition Indigestion the child that is
eating all the time is almost always under1ed
and anamc. The reason is that the stun taken
between meals destroys the appetite for the
meals and at the same time does not give the
child nourishment enough to grow on He is
eating all the time. and yet yet never eats
good. hearty meal of nourishing food. Inc ZEN TEN.
per of children depends almost entirely on thelr
digestion. The sweet child whom every one
loves and wants Immediately to kiss and pet ls
the child with good digestion
TWO RULES FOR FEEDING.
Some children will kick all rules for feeding
into snlithereens,'' said DR.. BARLEY, and the
audience of mothers smiled Il mean,'' he con-
tinued that one can lay down dogmatlc
rules for the feeding of children. Some chill
dren insist on certain foods and thrive them.
other children will not touch those foods, and
something else must be found for them: but
Iwo general rules be made for all children.
Do not let them eat between meals, and do not
let them overindulge in sugar Hosts of chill
dren never go from meal TO another without
eating some preparation of susar-cake, PIE,
jeiiies jams preserves frappes ice cream, SODA
water or candy and the worst Of these is candy;
worst because chlldren eat the iIost vi IL ol ait
empty stomach
All sugar solutions ferment in the stomach
with extraordinary readiness When they fer
,,,ert Ihey produce alcohol 1 have sometimes
thought that would call the attention of the
Weman's Christian Temperance Union and ask
Them to include in the courses OF study which
they have introduced into some of our schools
The extraordinary amount of alcohol which Is
formed by sugar in the little insides of the
little bows and girls. Now. little OF this fer
Tnentation is good for proper proportion
of sugar-about the proportion that the ordi-
nary sweet dessert bears to the ordinary dinner
lis nroper and healthful In nothing is tenn
nerarce-not total abstinence, but temperance
more necessary than in the consumption OF
sugar But owing to the fact that children love
sweets better than anything else care must
constantly be taken TO prevent their eating too
,nucf, sugar A quantity of sugar produces a
mass i'm the stomach which resembles the con-
tents of the cider barrel, the vinegar barrel and
the swill barrel combined How do l know
13ecause have been taking such masses out OF
stomachs for the last twenty-five years and
analyzing them
OVERLOOKING THE STOMACH.
we hear a great deal in these days of pto-
maine ,,oisoning A strong, healthy man is SUD
denly struck down by ptomaine poisoning Ihe
noar ptonaines have to stand for a good deal
That is much simpler and less interesting me
man starts in with beer. Then he takes a rare
bit He goes on to fried oysters and LOBSTER ana