Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-05-19
AIUhDAI' AFhIL 2S, 1917.
What Shall Do With My Daughter? :?
V. THE DIETlCIAN

leieueisn - ere Of the Buklie or mi
Nsts Institutions wkish are utrussi.s
with the food prsblen. SBeh iastts
tieEs are realizing sers sad nors thst
ths work. involves special problems
uhfsh nust be solved by an expert who
SHOWS something Of economics, who has
Asde study Of chemistry, and who
has practical everyday knowledge Of
market conditions.
This is the psychological time there.
fore for the high sehsol girl who is
facing the moment of vocational selee-
ton to consider taking course in die
teties.
For many year. schools of nursing
gave rather superficial attention to
this important branch Of nursing. but
there Is tendency today 10 Law great
.er stress on the subject of dieteties
and to impress on students the impor-
taAt part that food plays. not only in
building up health and strength after
Illness but IN preventing sickness and
phvsieal breakdown.
The proper feeding Of school chill
dren is being taken up by boards of
education in all parts of the country,
the providing Of wholesome food CON
tanning the needed number of ealories
and the requisite amount of fats, car
bohydrates, proteids and nutritive salts
necessary for mental as well as phys
zeal development, is being given seri-
Gus consideration. Special school lunch
es form part of the ordinary school
routine in many large cities and in all
communities where out of door schools
have been established for sickly and
tubereular children, and where the
backward child is receiving care, noon
day feeding is Just as much a part of
the curriculum as mathematics.
The institutional child, who has not
been noted in the past for its robust
constitution, is being scientifically fed
today. Experiments in dietetic feeding
are being carried out in private schools
with splendid results. The government
has regular scientifically standard
lied system of rations for its sailors.
Only recently the police commissioner
of New York city consented to allow
ing group of rockies to be fed on
limited but properly combined ration,
for period of three weeks, while the
whole country watched the experiment
with interest and applauded the result.
This all goes TO show that thousands
of positions are opening up for women
who have specialized in the study of
dietetics. They are wanted in public
school lunch departments, in private
and public institutions, in hospitals
where their services are indispensable,
in restaurants where the scientific pre-
paration of food is advertised.
At present there are very few hos
pitfalls in the country which do not en-
ploy a resident dietician because ply
sicians are unanimous in the opinion
that proper feeding is one of the es
sentals of proper nursing.
The young woman who takes up the
study of dietetics, whether in a school
for nursing, where she studies food
chemistry and combinations in connee
tion with her other work, or in q do
mestic science training school, is en-
tering upon a new and fascinating ca
reer. The possibilities of the study of
food and food preparation in their re-
lation to health and modern economic
are unlimited The question
is so many sided that it will not be
long before students of this branch
will be specializing and taking up sep
arately the study Of preparation of
foods for certain classes of people
1t is well known that brain workers
require certain food ingredients that
are not required by manual laborers,
and that the diet of delicate and nerv-
Gus people should be different from
the diet of robust people who are in
good physical and mental condition.
The relation of food to certain kinds
of disease and its bearing upn mental
deficiency, and even upon crime, is be-
ing studied by scientists who believe
literally that "we are what we eat.
The best preparation for the study of
dietetics is high school education. AT
ter completing this the student usually
enters domestic science training
school. The best foundation for the pro
fession of dietician is a complete course
in a recognized school of nursing.
The dietieian must be pitally inter
ested in matters pertaining to health.
She must be not merely a student Of
home economies and cookery, she must
be scientifically trained and have
working knowledge Of anatomy and