The Jasper news., 1908-01-28


Cereal foods nre digeated with diff
ficuity by the adult and should not
be given freely to children, Coarse
bread, never less than two days old,
is preferable to fine white bread
which child should never be given
fresh
At the age Of one year very small
quantity of pulverized fresh peanut
may be taken, at noon, In water, form
Ing peanut cream, and the amount
very gradually increased till at two
1t forms half the diet. A small piece
Of zwiebach may now be added to the
evening meal and very gradually In
creased till II becomes one-half, by
weight, of the evening meal. when
both should be continued.
At three, the regular diet Of child
hood should be fully established. At
seven in the morning drink Of wa
ter with lemon Juice and only enough
sugar to make 1t acceptable; at eight,
apple, cantaloupe, ripe banana or 9TH
or fruit; nothing else, unless water is
called for. At ten as much artificial
buttermilk as can be taken at noon
slice or more of whole wheat or com.
bination cereal bread with pulverized
peanut If the child is really hungry
and healthy he will eat this with good
relish
At three give the modified milk.
At six zwiebach with honey or, IL pre-.
ferred, prunes only. Give water as
often as called for between meals, but
nothing else.
Let the solicitous parent be fully as
sured that this diet will develop the
highest qualities of body and mind
and that sickness will be avoided, II
the child is properly aired, watered,
exercised and amused and protected
from stagnated, foul air, bad water
and sudden changes of temperature
or too much clothing in warm weather
The goat is the healthiest of all ami
mails, always free from tuberculosis.
It's milk is in every respect superior
to cows as a substitute in infant
feeding, and 1t ought to be adopted
for general use, there being no rea-
snnable objection but lack of knowl-
| edge OF the facts.
1t is a poor goat that will not give
from one to four quarts of milk day,
and it costs no more to feed than a
dog, where there is fair-sized back
| yard.
Tests show that goats milk approx
mates to the natural infants food
more closely than does cows milk. Di-
gestive tests indicate 1t to be three
times more digestible, the curds be-
ing much finer and the fat far more
soluble.
Absolute cleanliness. and freedom
from disease is, however, the chief
| recommendation of goats milk.
go to the hills and drink goat S
milk" was the prescription of Hippo
crates, the father of medicine, for
tuberculosis. We are making the
search for cure for-"the great white
plague" serious matter, as 1t should
be, but the true cure is at least fully
suggested in the method of the Greek
physician.
DR.. Koch, the eminent discoverer of
| the tuberculosis germ, says the boz
vine and the human germ are not the
same. However this may be, milk
from tuberculous animal is unwhole-
some; 1t may furnish a medium for
the culture of tuberculosis. A case
is on record in which a farmer, pro-
hibited from selling the milk of an In.
fected herd, fed 1t to his hogs and
they were infected.
Now comparative anatomy and
physiology and evolution attest that
the nutritive system of the pig close
! ly resembles mans.
1t is chiefly because of the superior
healthfulness, in general, of the goat,
and its immunity from tuberculosis in
particular, that l have advocated the
substitution of goats for cows milk
in infant feeding.