The Alaska citizen., 1911-09-18
Timely I Hints for the Housewife

There are two ways of treating
the child who has no appetite. You
may either follow him around hour
after hour with raw eggs. glasses of
milk or dainty sandwiches. trying TO
tempt him TO eat and to get into him
by fair means ,r foul the required
amount of food, or YOU may immedi-
ately cut down the food supply. give
the stomach a rest and not urge him
to eat anything he does not want.
This last is. perhaps. the better
way The we'll child wants to eat
There must be a reason for lack of
appetite. and the intelligent thing
ii would seem. is to look for the
reason. not to make matters worse
| by forcing into a probably upset stom-
ach lot OF indigestible dainties.
There may be a number of reasons
why the child loses his appetite. In
| the first place. does he have enough
| fresh air and exercise? In good
weather children should be out-of-
doors at least five hours every day.
and then. there is the bedroom. is it
properly ventilated? The next ques-
| ton is. is he allowed to eat sweets
| between IlltdlS HIS Is III ODdolN thC
most frequent cause of all for the
poor appetite we so frequently hear
| complained of in children.
! If he has plenty Of healthy ex-
ercise. a daily bath and does not eat
between meals and still has no appe-
| tite. the GU stion of his diet must
be consider ed. II is help to have
a physicians advice about this. for il
is of inestimable importance to the
| child that lie be fed properly and ii
| is hard to accomplish this always
without advice. If. after every care
| is taken to provide the right food for
the child. he still persists in having
a poor appetite try giving him a
tablespoonful of castor oil and for
three or four days thereafter par
ticularly wholesome but very mea
ger diet.
good plan is. on the first sign OF
loss Of appetite. to reduce the guam
tity of food take away all sweets.
make the space longer between
meals. give castor oil or calomel and
look very carefully into all questions
of diet possible nibbling between
meals. amount of exercise taken
every day and general daily regimen
in every particular
The child who does not rebound
after a week of this watchfnl treat
ment is in a more profoundly dis
turbed state than We can guess at
from the outside 1t will need the
experience OF a physician to set him
straight and this should be secured
for him as soon as possible.
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seem TO need a more dainty diet
than others Where one child will
eat plain boiled rice another will
absolutely refuse it, but will take
a rice jelly with relish. SO with stew
Cd prunes. the child who will net eat
them at all may be seen to devour
platesful of prune pulp with the ut
most enjoyment A plain orange
may be uninteresting to some chill
dren. who will welcome orange jelly
with open arms and mouths?
For children of this type the fol
lowing recipes are suggested They
are all particularly inviting and quite
wholesome for a child of any age.
They have been used many times
to great advantage when the little
ones seemed TO need change and
variety in their food.
Prune Pulp.
Stew the prunes until quite soft
and then rub them through coarse
sieve Put this pulp back in the
water in which the fruit was cooked.
add enough molasses to sweeten it,
and let cook for about ten minutes.
Baked Apple.
Choose a large. juicy apple. Pare
and core Bake until thoroughly
soft and then strain and sweeten.
Give it to the child with cream.
Junket Egg.
Add two eggs beaten TO troth
and sweeten with four teaspOontuls
of sugar to a pint CT milk. Curdle
with essence of pepsin or junket
tablets. Pour into cups.
Orange Jelly.
Soak one-half cup of jelatine in
cold water for half an hour. Add
two cups OF boiling water and dis
solve. Then add one cup of sugar
and one cup of orange juice. Strain
through a very fine strainer and
set away to harden.
Rice Jelly.
Wash one-half tablespoonful of
rice and soak in cold water for two
hours. Drain off the water and add
two to three cups of milk. Cook in
a double boiler for an hour and a
half Add pinch OF salt and the
white of one egg. Strain through a
fine sieve and pour into mOlds. Give
it to the child very cold with cream
and sugar. An excellent hot weather
dish
Chocolate Blanc Mango.
Mix one-fourth of cup OF granu-
lated tapioca, one and one-fourth
teaspoonful salt and one-tourth cup
of granulated sugar. and pour on
gradually one and one-half cups of
hot cocoa. Cook in double boiler
about 90 minutes. Remove from the
fire and add one fourth teaspoOnful
OF vanilla Pour into cold mOlds and
serve with cream or custard.
Chicken Broth.
Remove the skin and fat from
chicken and chop it up, bones and
all. into small pieces. Add salt and
a quart of boiling water. cover and
simmer for two hours. Then allow
it to stand for one hour. still covered
after which strain through a
sieve This is one of the most
wholesome and strengthening dishes
a child can have.
TO WASH Wells.