Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-26
FEED YOUR "k|DS'
 !. AS WELL AS STOCK
Make Your Children Healthier and { Happier and Save Doctors Bills By Feeding Them Properly.
By Miss Isabelle Thurby, Specialist in . Home Economics, in Extension Division, University of
 Arkansas.

l
 | When one stops to consider that it
 has been good many years since all the progressive farmers became con- y1nced that a farm animal, when fed on scientific ration, kept in better
 health and was more profitable than
 one fed on Init and miss" diet, it is
 surpassing strange that so many peo-
 pie should doubt the wisdom of con-
 sidering a scientific knowledge of foods in the feeding of human ami
 mals. When we consider that what the scientists have found out would,
 if generally known and needed, un
 doubtedly prolong human life, and
 keep most of us in better health, it is 1 incomprehensible that the government
 should be spending so comparatively
 much on the lives and health of swine,
 and so comparatively little on the lives and health of human beings.
 Even for him who can understand nothing but the language of dollars
 and cents, healthy children may be more profitable than healthy horses I and cattle. It takes more money to
 maintain family with sickness in it l than it does to maintain well one,
 for the doctor may take away more
 than hogs or horses can bring in.
 The kind of food which produces
 healthy human being is of the gravest
 importance at any period of life, but
 it is of the most importance in child
 hood. We are, all of us, what our
 foods make us, and if one has been
 reared to manhood on fare which
 has made him rugged, full of vitality,
 pure blood and abounding health, he
 is best equipped to meet all the dan
 gers which threaten human life. Fur
 ther, a youth who is being properly
 fed is forming correct food habits.
 Raise child in the way he should
 go, and in his manhood he will not
 depart from it,'' was not said only of
 character A mother who feeds her
 children on poorly selected food is
 putting more potent curse upon them than the most ingenious witch could devise
 On the subject of what is intended by Nature for animal food there has
 been much argument, but the facts of , Nature indicate that, while many oth-
 CT things may be, and probably are, intended for animal food, there are, } so far as we actually know, only three things intended for that purpose. These are milk eggs and honey. It is certain that Nature made these for , | that purpose, and for that purpose I only.
 Fl No greater tribute could be paid to good, pure milk than the citation of Q the fact that it is being more and
 more recognized not only as pre- il ventive but as a cure for many dis | eases. Just what it is in milk which Q gives it it's value, not only for main h taining health, but as a specific for - these diseases, cannot be said to have
 been determined as yet with absolute certainty; yet more and more are phy- t sicians prescribing it with the great v, est success. There have always been ', fairly good reasons for believing that ,- eggs were form of food that should d never be omitted from the diet of e children past infancy, but lately the + scientists have been able to furnish l. absolute proof. Dr. McCollum of the t.A University of Wisconsin fed some o young rats on diet which was sup
 posed to contain all the elements e that were necessary in human food 1T proteid, starch, fat, mineral and vit a amines from grains, chemically re e moving everything else from the food l. making it absolutely pure. But the ., rats would not grow. When a certain n amount of butter or fats from egg II yolks was added to this diet, the rats Id grew. He found that neither olive oi 50 nor hog fat would serve the purpose e. Sugar" in ordinary language !i means merely that commercial prod ,s m uct, usually made from cane sugar Id which is sold as sugar in the grocer, ,e stores. But that which is known a. Is sugar to the scientists is an elemen al which is found in many foods, an( ol some amount of it is undoubtedly - necessary in the human diet. Mill d contains some. and some fruits If dates for instance, contain a grea IFS deal. White cane sugar contains tha e., element, and contains it in far mor' re concentrated form than can be foun, IS anywhere else in Nature. However
 honey not only has more delightful ;,, flavor, but is certainly far more whole !. some than cane sugar.
 es Every farmer who has regard fo If the welfare of his family should keel st i a COW, chickens, and few hives o g. bees, and supply an abundance o