Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-01-28

cereal tOOuh uro uiBobtcu Win VII
ficulty 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 a 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 q peanut cream. and the amount
very gradually increased till at two
Il forms half the diet. A small piece
OF zwiebach may now be added to the
evening meal and very gradually In
creased till Il 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 a drink OF wa
ter with lemon juice and only enough
sugar to make II acceptable; at eight,
apple, cantaloupe. ripe banana or 9TH
OF fruit; nothing else. unless water 10
called for At ten as much artificial
buttermilk as can be taken: at noon q
slice or more Of whole wheat or COM
bination cereal bread with pulverized
peanut. II 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, II 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.
Its milk is in every respect superior
to cows rs a substitute In infant
feeding, and It ought to be adopted
for general use, there being no rea-
sonable objection but lack Of knowl-
edge of the facts.
1t is q poor goat that will not give
from one to four quarts of milk q day,
and 1t costs no more to feed than a
dog. where there is a fair.sized back
yard.
Tests show that goats milk approx
mates to the natural infants food
more closely than does cows milk. d.
gestive tests indicate II 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 goats
milk" was the prescription of Hippo
crates, the father Of medicine, for
tuberculosis. We are making the
search for a cure for 1.-THE great white
plague" a serious matter, as 1t should
he. 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 bo-
vine and the human germ are not the
same. However this may be. milk
from a tuberculous animal is unwhole-
some; 1t may furnish a medium for
the culture of tuberculosis. A case
is on record in which farmer, pro-
hibited from selling the milk Of an III
fected herd, fed 1t to his hogs and
they were infected.
Now comparative anatomy and
phy siology and evolution attest that
the nutritive system Of the pig close
" resembles mans.
It is chiefly because Of the superior
healthfulness, in general, of the goat,
and its immunity from tuberculosis In
particular, that / have advocated the
substitution of goats for cows milk
In infant feeding.