The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-04-01
10y William Brady, N. D.)

10y william Brady, N. D.)
Nearly all Of the food (excepting
milky Of child three or four years of |
age should require chewing. 1t is wrong
to feed these little tots soft stuff ex-
ccssivcly; they gulp 1t down and suf-
fer from disturbed digestion. and the
teeth arc not developed II they are not
uscd/
Little ones should not be restricted
to three meals q day, but should be
fed four or five times regularly. This
is the natural thing to do. It is un-
natural to force the child to overload
his stomach in the endeavor to tide
over the hunger nc suffers when his
parents are grandmotherly enough to
prohibit "piccing." Fleeing is bad
only when it Is irregular in time and
when the food is some poisonous lolly-
pop or other improper article. am
not condcmning the lollypop, for 1t may
be as pure and wholesome as the best
stick candy, and every child should
have candy, but only for desert. never
between meals. Bread and butter and
sugar Is the ideal "piccc."
Breakfast.
A glass Of milk.
A dish Of home cooked oatmeal or
other cereal with plenty Of cream and
sugar-to taste.
baked apple.
a piece Of buttered toast.
Ten O'Clock Lunch.
Two graham crackers and glass Of
milk. @
One O'clock Lunch.
Dreamed or baked potatoes.
Bread and butter. and an egg.
Slowed or fresh fruit in season.
Four O'clock Lunch.
A pretzcl. some toast. crackers. or
bread and butter.
Seven O'clock Dinner.
Vegetable or meat soup.
Any vegetable. potato. some baked
fish. or roast meat, or an egg cooked
as desired.
Bread and butter.
Cookie or cake.
Fruit, nuts or candy.
Cup Of hot water, sweetcncd with
cream added.
This Is q sample diet, with liberal
allowances for a three or four year
old child In ordinary health. The i'm
portant thing Is to see to it that the
child chews his food, and that he has
food worth chewing.
The great objection 10 many of the
so-called breakfast foods is that they
arc too sweet and too soluble. SO that
they slip down without nlastication and
salivary digestion. One of the reasons
why graham crackers are popular is
the fact that they stimulate chewing
Lucky is the youngstcr who is per-
mfttcd to gnaw at the bones. It Is "A
silly anu deplorable custom In some
households to cut child's meat from
the bone for him, on the ground that
1t is impolitc to take n bone in the
fingers and go after it in good old
;lntcdeluvian fashion. This sort Of ct
iquette was the invention of people
who were shy of soap and. water but
nowadays most of us wash our hands
before We sit down to cat.
Pasteurized Not Sterilized.
= What is the difference bctwcen pas
teurized and sterilized milk? (Mrs j..
W. d.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS milk contains
germs. Sterilized milk contains no
germs. Pasteurizing means heating the
milk to q temperature of 60 degrees
centigrade and holding at that tenn
pcrature about 20 minutes, and cooling.
Sterilization means heating to the boil
ing point 600 degrees centigrade, 2l2
degrees Fahrcnheit) for at least five
minutes. Pasteurized milk is supposed
10 be more digcstlble. or rather the
moderate heating Is supposed to avoid
certain vague changes caused by ex-
treme heat, yet sufficient to destroy
most disease germs. II the milk is
clean in the first place 1t needs neither
rasteurizing nor boiling. for infants.
Nervous Girl and Wisdom Tooth.
d Am q and have been real nervous
five years. The doctor doesn't
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Everybody welcome. Bring ="
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- Al L