Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-06-24
FOOD IN GERMANY
DURING THE WAR
By WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD.

ROTTERDAM, Holland May 20
Thy maiD-Right into the baby's
cradle, at his five daily meal times,
reaches the hand of the great German
government, in wartime.
1t snatches his milk bottle from
him, empties out half his milk and
fills up the bottle with breakfast
food.
Twice a day, when bottle time
comes, this great hand keeps his
bottle way from him and, with
spoon feeds him with apple sauce,
crushed carrots and seived spinach.
You can't get the babies to talk
about it, though their mothers have
a great deal to say on the subject
But the fact remains that the babies
thrive on their new menus and that
perhaps the baby experts of Germany
have found a new and better way to
fill baby stomachs.
Here's my little muchaeho," said
a Spanish lady from Germany who
had, as she said, brought him out
to get him some milk She display
ed a little fellow of eight months.
"In our town in Germany, if the
doctor gives you certificate, you
may have a pint of mill: a day for
your baby.
"The doctor works with the govern
meat, you understand, and he makes
every effort to persuade mothers to
nurse their children at the breast.
IF he considers that a mother is
able to do this, he will not issue
milk certificate and the mother will
not be able to purchase milk.
Nurses also are under government
control and when they discover that
a mother is able to nurse her baby
it is her duty to notify the doctor
to that effect and it then becomes
his duty to cancel the milk ticket.
"The milk that is issued is not
enough for baby, of course, but the
scientists have worked out a way of
mixing it with an oatmeal or wheat
BIRTH. This is fed from the bottle
three times a day. But he must have
eood two other times every day and
the scientists are busily instructing
physicians and nurses, who in turn
instruct mothers how to cook apples,
carrots and spinach for the babies
1--WE cook the apples or carrots I'M
til soft as porridge and serve it to
the baby with a spoon He hasn't
a tooth in his head, yet, but he has
learned to eat from spoon We put
the boiled spinach through sieve"
What does he like best of the
three?"
Apples, because we always put a
little sugar into the apple sauce. Car
rots he likes also, but spinach, He
makes faces at it, but when he cries
for food he can't always be silenced
even with spinach.
"He grows fat on his war food.
too. My other children always had
milk five times a day, and as much
as they wanted. They liked milk,
as all other babies do But this
baby is learning to eat things that
he doesn't like
Il don't like to see him have to
dc it. | feel sorry when must feed
him spinach. Think of it! And so
here I am in Holland to give him all
milk he wants for a time He laughs
and COOS every time he sees the milk
bottle coming. He knows the diff
ference between milk and carrots"
Doesn't he?" she said, turning to
the baby. He said something which
was taken for yes"
Getting a beefsteak for your home
in Germany will be. the theme of the
next Shepherd German food story.
It's task worth reading about }
When baby suffers with eczema or
some itching skin trouble, use Doan's
Ointment. A little of it goes a long
way and it is safe for children. soc
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