The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-06
THE FIRST TEN YEARS
Vital Importance Of Sunshine and
Nourishing Food In Childhood.

To develop indoors. under glass, race
OF mon and women of tho type that be-
lieve is coming out OF all this marvellous
minglinE Of races I'm the United States Is
immeasuraby absurd There must be
sunlight, but even more Ia needed fresh.
pure air. Tho injury wrought today to
the race by keeping too young children
Indoors In school Is beyond the power OF
any one 10 estimate, The air thcy
breathe even under the best sanitary reg
ulntlons Is for too impure for their lungs
Often II ls positively poisonouS-a $40"
poison which never makes itself fully
manifest until the child Is wreck Keep
the child outdoors and away from DOCKS
and study. Much you can teach him,
much he will teach himself all gently.
without knowing 1t, of natore and ma
turo's God, Just as the child Is taught TO
walk or run or play; but education In
the plague. And the atmosphere must be
pure around IL In the other sense. II
must be free from every kind of lndei-
cacy or coarscnesS. The most dangerous
man in the community is the one VINO
would pollute the stream OF child liie.
whoever was responsible for the saying
that boys Will be boys and young
man must SOW his Wild oats was per
haps guilty OF II crime.
1t is impossible TO apply successfully the
principles OF cultivation and selection OF
plants to human life II the human HE
does not. like the plant life. have proper
nourishment Eirst OF all, the child
bBtSlloH UluSl Dt lildub opullo ~
Client. simple. well-balanced food. But
YOU say any one should know this True
and. most people do realize 1t In GER
tain sense. but how many realize that
upon the food the child Is fed in these
first ten years largely depends It's moral
future? ! once lived near CLASS Oh
people who. from religious belief, cN-
cluded all meats, eggs and milk from the
dietary OF their children. They fed them
vegetables and the products of cereals
What result followed? The children
IL. hi. fn vsrlI he "A
disease, quickly, succumbcd TO Illness
There were no signs of ylgor, they were
always low I'm vitality. But that was not
all They were frghtfully depraved,
They were not properly fed. their ra-
tlon was unbalanced Nature rebelled:
for she had not sufficient material TO per-
feet her higher development
What We want In developing a new
plant making 1t better In all ways than
any of its kind that have preceded 1t. Is
a splendid norm. not anything abnormal
So We feed IL from the soil, and IL feeds
from the air and thus we make II
powerful aid to man 1t is dependent
upon good food Upon good food for the
child. well-balanced food depends good
digestion, upon Good digestion, with pure
air to keep the blood pure, depends the
nervous system. II you have the first
ten years OF q boys or n girl life in
which to make them strong and sturdy
with normal nerves, splendid digestion,
and unlmpaired lungs, you have healthy
animal, ready for the heaviest burdens OF
study. Preserve beyond all else as the
priceless portion OF a child the integrity
of the nervous system Upon this depends
their success In life With tho nervous
system shattered what is life WORTH
Suppose you begin the education,
called, of your child at. say, three or
four II he be unusually bright, in the
kindergarten. Keep adding slowly and
Systematically, with what I think the
devil must enjoy as refined means of
torment, to the burden day by day, Keep
on educating" him until he enters the
primary school ut five. and push him to
the uttermost until he is ten. You have
now laid broad and deep the foundation:
Of the rest
The integrity Of your childs nervous