Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-23
No S.
WEAVING THE BABY
81 ANNA STEESE RICHARDSON

J lie DAD1
quality not found In cows milk, which the baby's
system requires. The diet of oragne juice should be
continued to bottle.fed babies after weaving and
should be started for breast.fed babies with wean-
ing.
Just as soon as the baby can sit up in a high chair.
he is welcomed at the average family table. Often
this is Fathers or Big Brothers only chance to
make the acquaintance of the newcomer in the family
circle. Also his efforts to share the repast of grown
ups are amusing. Doctors and mothers l have met.
at contests tell me that many a child's stomach all
ments started at the family supper table. Either he
child frets for what he sees and it is easier to comply
with his demands than to discipline him or someone
thinks it is cute to see him eat foods that should
be served only to adults, and so the mischief is
wrought.
The fairest thing to the child too young for solid
food is to feed him before the family meal is served
and leave him safely sleeping or playing in another
room. If it seems necessary, however, to have him
at the family table, then see that he eats only such
food as h can digest and assimilate. As soon as he
can handle a spoon, he may be given a little porringer
Of bread pap, the safest table dish for a baby one
year old. This is wen toasted bread boiled in milk.
Next comes farina cooked i'll half milk and half water.
For the benefit of mothers who have asked me
at contests for a diet table, suitable to children OF
various ages, / am giving the following tables, taken
from the folder, Hints to Mothers" compiled for
the Eetter Babies Bureau, by eminent dieticians. This
folder will be semitic mothers on receipt Of a stamped
and self-addressed envelope sent to me, care this
paper.
Here are the diet tables:
Diet For Child From Twelfth to Eighteenth Month.
Breakfast-Juice of a sweet orange, strained, or
pulp Of six steWed prunes, eight ounces of milk (half
a pint) with either zwieback or toasted biscuits or
toasted stale bread.
Fruit should be given either half an hour before
or half an hour after the milk:
Second Meal During Forenoon-Milk alone or with
zwieback.
Noon Neal. Six ounces of soup made from
chicken, beef or mutton, or three ounces of beef juice.
II. Stale bread or milk toast, or bread pap.
Fourth Meal, Mid.Afternoon-Milk or toasted
bread or zwieback.
Evening Meal. -Four ounces thick cruel mixed
with four ounces. of top half milk (the top is sixteen
ounces, or a pint. from a quart bottle) with zwieback.
The cruel may be made of oatmeal farina. barley,
lominy, wheatina or rice. II. Apple sauce or prune
jelly. "
Diet For Child From Eighteenth to Twenty.fourth
Month.
Breakfast. Orange juice strained, or prune
pulp. IL. Well cooked cereal served with top milk
slightly sweetened or seasoned with butter and salt.
III. Glass of milk and stale bread and butter.
Forenoon-Fruit, except banana.
DinnerI. Broth thickened with peas, farina, sage
or rice; or beef juice with stale bread broken into
it; or clear vegetable soup with yok Of egg in it.
II. Soft cooked egg, boiled, coddled, shirred or poach.
ed. III. Baked potatoes, peas, spinach, carrots.
". Dessert: apple sauce, baked apple, prune pulp,
stale lady fingers, graham or arrowroot crackers,
rice, bread, tapioca or blanc mango pudding, baked
= ;nn1-o% ~ Nrioa with hot nilEE ond a. 1iktlo
sugar.
Milk warm or cold), custard or prune pulp or
apple Cbaked or in sauce), or rice, or stewed fruit,
with ~zwieback, bread or crackers.
Diet For Child Two to Three Years DC.
Ereakfast-Fruit, cereal, soft boiled or poached
egg with stale bread or toast and a glass Of milk.
Dinner-Soup as described in paragraph above.
l. Scraped beef, white meat of chicken, boiled fish
like halibut, or two slices crisp, brailed bacon, steak
or chop cut fine. III. Mashed or baked potatoes,
macaroni, peas, spinach, carrots, beets, squash, or
caulifower. Nv. "A glass of milk with educator or
graham crackers or stale bread, buttered. v. Des~
sert: apple sauce, baked apple, rice, junket or GUS
tard; also, the desserts indicated in the dinner list
above.
Supper. Stewed frui. II. A cereal. III. Bread
and milk or custard. ~. Cup Of warm milk or cocoa.
". Crackers, or z%wieback; graham crackers or stale
graham bread, if constipated.
The next talk on Babyology will deal with Sleep,
on which habit the health of the baby and the peace
and happiness of the parents is so dependent.
DER refined borax SOAP" ETC., eight were found to
contain No borax at all, while in the others the con
tent ranged from traces to more than 10 per cent. II
other words, the chances are almost even that . Gus
toner buying a soap or soap powder supposed TO