Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-04-11
DEAN MCKAY SPEAKS
At BAPTIST CHURCH
Fair Sized Crowd Of Women Present
to Hear Lecture on Food for
the Child.

Dean Mckay, head OF the Home
Economics department of Ames Col
lege, spoke at the Baptist church
Friday afternoon at o'clock to a
fair sized audience of women upon
'.Food for the Child" The rainy
AFTERNOON was prohibitive of larg-
|er audience, such as has been at
tending the open meetings of the
Better Baby Week, and many who
had planned to attend were disap-
pointed.
81 Dean Mckay prefaced her subject
proper with various remarks upon
Child Labor in the United States and
upon the Heating Bill which has SO
important bearing upon Child La
Dor in America. She touched briefly
upon birth registration on which the
Freeman-Tribune has had already
several articles, and urged the sup
port of such bill at the next ses-
sion of the legislature. Following
some good advice upon the training
and caring of children, including
proper airings, exercise, ETC., she
took up the subject OF food.
1t is no small task to bring up a
child. Food is perhaps more import
ant than all other things in the rear
ing of a child and the first food is
milk and should ideally be mothers
milk. Failing this, the next best
substitute is modified milk. The
proper way of preparing this milk
was shown and the women also told
that they could receive un-
Limited amounts of literature upon
this subject by writing to their con-
gresham at Washington, D. c., for
IL.
II The way to make perfect health
for a grown person, is to keep it
when babe, in perfect condition.
This is an age of prevention and we
are realizing that the only way to
keep well is to build up the resist
ance of the body that it may resist
all disease. Perhaps sometime we
will be as civilized as the Chinese,
who pay their doctors to keep them
in health. No disease, is ever taken
by child unless its resistance is
lowered. We may think of disease as
swooping down like a bird of III
omen and suddenly, without warn
ing, attacking our children. Not so.
There is first breaking down OF re-
sistance somewhere in the body,
making some point Of weakness
through which the disease gains
easy control of the body. A child
does not take disease unless the re-
|sistance is low. Preparedness of the
body has never been known to pro-
duce an attack of disease.
The subject of milk brings up the
subject of proper dairy inspection.
This matter is being agitated in the
state at present and Iowa will never
have dairy inspection until the Won
en- themselves. through their repre-
sentatives, ask for it.
When an infant is born it has
enough iron in it's system to last one
year. Therefore milk is the only
food necessary for it until one year
old. After that time the simplest OF
foods may be slowly introduced into
its diet. Baked potato, orange juice,
well cooked spinach run through a
sieve, prunes, ETC., were all recon-
mended as well as scraped apple and
a few other articles Of diet. Until
the third or fourth year the average
child needs only diet of fruit, veg
etables, milk in many forms and then
the meat. ..a
Bulletins on the Care of Milk, is
sued by the Iowa Extension Board,
were distributed during the lecture
to the women.