The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-14

tlnu0d to DOttle-Ie0 DaOleS aItor Wcdn-
ing and should be started for breast
fed babies with weaving.
| just as soon as the baby can sit up
! In high chair, he is welcomed at the
average family table. Often this IS
fathers or big brothers only chance
Ito make the acquaintance of the new
conner In the family circle Also his
efforts to share the repast OF Crown
ups are amusing. Doctors and moth
ers have met at contests tell me
that many a child's stomach ailments
started at the family supper table.
Either the child frets for what he
4 sees and it is easier to comply With
his demands than to discipline him or
some one thinks It is cute" to see
him eat foods that should be served
q only to adults, and SO the mischief 10
wrought
| The fairest thing to the child too
young for solid food is to feed him be-
fore the family meal is served and
leave him safely sleeping or playing
in another room. II it seems neces-
sary. however. to have him at the
I family table, then see that he eats
only such food as he can digest and
assimilate. AS SOON as he can handle
a spoon, he may be given little
porringer Of bread pap, the safest !,
table dish for a baby one year old.
: This is we'll toasted bread boiled In |
milk. Next comes farina cooked in
half milk and half water
For the benefit OF mothers who
have asked me at contests for diet
table suitable to children OF various
ages, I am giving the following
tables taken from the folder Hints
to Mothers compiled for the Better
t Babies bureau by eminent dieticlans.
This folder will be sent to mothers on
8 receipt OF stamped and self-address-
}, ed envelope sent to me, care this pa
g per.
Hero are the diet tables.
7. Diet for Child From Twelfth 70 Eish-
g teenth Month.
4 Breakfast
:. Juice OF a sweet orange, strained,
a. Tor pulp of six stewed prunes, eight
q ounces OF milk (half pint with
either zwieback or toasted biscuits or
Y toasted stale bread.
* Fruit should be given either half
an hour before or half an hour after
IS the milk.
~ Second meal during forenoon.
SO Milk alone or with zwieback.
NJ Noon meal.
ne 1. Six ounces of soup made from
II, chicken. beef or mutton, or three
Oh ounces OF beef juice. 2. Stale bread
70 or milk toast, or bread pap.
ca Fourth meal, mid-afternoon.
be Milk or toasted bread or zwieback
gu Evening meal
- 1. Four ounces thick cruel mixed
~ with four ounces OF top half milk
!, (the top Is sixteen ounces, or pint
:, - from quart bottle) with zwieback
IN The Cruel may be made Of oatmeal
=. farina, barley, hominy. wheatina o.
Ia rice. 2. Apple sauce or prune jelly.
lhe Diet for Child From Eighteen I,
~ Twenty-fourth Month
'no Breakfast
49, 1. Orange juice strained or prun
- lpulp. o. Well-cooked cereal serve,
VOC with top milk slightly sweetened o
;,v seasoned with butter and salt.
& Glass of milk and stale bread an,
IN iutter.
.aa Forenoon.
Fruit, except banana.
,nd Dinner.
red /. Broth thickened with peas
inc farina, sage or rice; or beef Juice wit
ion stale bread broken into 1t; or clea
up. vegetable soup with yolk Of egg in 1
we'd 2. Soft cooked egg, boiled, coddles
Dor. shirred or poached 8. Baked poti
ned toes. peas, spinach, carrots. 4. De
uel. Esert: apple sauce, baked apple. prun
h Epulp, stale lady fingers, graham {
ten arrowroot crackers, rice, bread. TAI
,ods ioca or blanc-mange pudding, bake
in custard. junket or rice with hot mil
al. and little sugar.
odi- Supper.
rad. Milk (warm or cold), custard
1nal prune pulp or apple (baxed or
not sauce), or rice, or stewed fruit, wi,
tol zwieback, bread or crockers.
the
be Diet for Child Two to Three Yea
ime, Old.
and breakfast.
ght, Fruit, cereal, soft boiled or poach,
egg with stale bread or toast and
y Is glass of milk.
east Dinner.
the Soup as described In paragral
wing above. O. scraped beef, white me
$ OF Iof chicken, boiled fish like halibut,
diet two slices crisp, broiled bacon, ste,
soft Tor chop cut fine. 8. Mashed or ba
At ed potatoes, macaroni. peas, spinac
side, carrots beets squash or eau1if3ow.