The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-11-26
the CANDY at meal time.

asked Mrs. Clyde.
mo; nor for her last years over
shoes or her tin dogs left hind leg,
chuckled the Health Master. "Some-
times | marvel that the race has
survived all the superstitions sur
rounding food and drink"
I'm my fathers household" said
Mr.. Clyde, "the family principly
was never to drink anything with
meals. The mixture of solids and
liquids was held TO be bad. Anoth-
er superstition. I suppose"
AT that rate, bread and milk
would be rank poison" said DR..
Strong. "Next to food, water has
got the finest incrustation of old
wives warnings. Now, there's
some doubt whether a man should
eat whenever he wants to. Ape
tite, in the highly nervous American
organization. is sometimes tricky.
But thirst is Trustworthy. The nor
NAL man is perfectly safe in drink
ing all the water he wants whenev-
er he wants it," Only he must not
go thirsty all day and take in his
entire water supply at meals.
II can still remember the agonies
that suffered when, as a boy, had
scarlet fever. and they would al
low me almost no water" said Mr..
Clyde.
"0ne of medicines drest errors"
said DIR. Strong. Nobody will ever
know how much that false and cruel
system has added to our death-rate
in the past. Today a practitioner
who kept water from a fever patient
- unless there were unusual com
plications would be properly
citable for malpractice. BY the
way" he continued, we're changing
our views about feeding in long ill
ness. Typhoid patients have always
been kept down to the lowest pos
sible diet, nothing hut milk. Now
some of the big hospitals are feed
ing typhoid eases. right through the
fever, on foods carefully selected for
heir heat and energy values. with
HE result that not only has the
patient more Strength to fight the
disease, but he pulls through prac-
ically free from the emaciation
which has always been regarded as
inevitable"
Can | have my candy?" inquired
Bettina, holding to her own point.
IF it's good. sound candy and you
Eat it at meal time. Now I'm go
ing to utter an awful heresy. Gen
orally speaking. and in moderation,
what you want is good for you"
"Pure anarchy" laughed Mr.
Clyde.
Not at all; the law of the body,
always demanding what is best for
its development. or course there
are motions" and "fads" and arti-
fetal appetites, that are not fit to-
be guides-I mean the true and nat
1ral hankerings of the body.
We'll. | want" declared Robin.
with a sudden energy, ito take of
.hese hot, scratchy flannels.'
Too late now" said the Health
Master, until spring. You've been
wearing them all winter. But an
other year, il | have my way, YOU
won't have to put them on"
You'd let him tempt pneumonia
~ going through winter with
light summer underwear"
Unless you get out an injunction
against me-" smiled the physician.
'BObs had a pretty tough time of it
or the first week when he changed !
o flannels. He's thin-skinned, and
he rough wool irritated him pretty
BADLY. In fact, he had slight fever
or two days. IL isn't worth that
suffering. Besides. he's full
FLOODED yOungster, and doesn't need
he extra warmpth. You can't dress
III children alike in material any
more than you can dress them all
rom the same pattern"
"Then ! want to leave Off mine. |
CO." announced Charles.
Nonsense! You little rufiian, you
'ould wear sandpaper on that skin
# yours. Don't talk TO me, or next
line | see you without your over
,cat I'll order hair shirt for you"
1--WE never thought much about |
he children's clothes, except To-
'hange between the seasons" con.
essed Mrs. Clyde. II supposed that |
vas all there is 10 it,"
mot wholly. | once knew man
who died from changing his neck |
ie."
Did he put on a red tie with a
pink shirt?" interestedly queried |
Nanny, who had reached the age
where attire was becoming a vital
He changed abruptly from the
zig pufr-tie which he had worn all