The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-30

FEEDING CHUDREN.-G recent ly told you about feeding babies up Go the age of one year and hero comes a whole lot of tots who claim that they are much more import ant than such tiny little babies and that they are not at ail satisfied with just milk and water. Strikes are very fashionable just now: and they threaten to go on n strike unless their diet is increased and they are increased and they are allowed more freedom Of action and in fact a full recognition their rights.
 wanted to arhitrate but while willing to compromise on some points, the demand for proper food a- the proper time being one of their fundamental and inalienable rights, it must be fully satisSed or the strike would nit once take place and they would talye tho food into their own hands.
 Ali right! all right! little folks, win arrange the matter with your mother but here is one emphatic rule strike or no strike-you eat at cer- ' tain hours and no matter whether 1t fuits you or not, if you do not eat enough at that time to satisfy you until the next feeding hour, the only thing you arc to have between meals is water. good, clean, pure cool wa ter and nothing else.
 Another fronclnd rule: No food containing starch until you have at least eight teeth. Until you have from eight to twelve teeth there is no secretion supplied to your stomach that will digest starch and the only way that you can grow and become strong enough to resist disease is to digest your food. You need and shall have ' lenty of good, wholesome food but until you have tho teeth, no oa:- meal or other beraEfast foods, no crusts, broad. crackers, bananas. po- tatoes or cakes. Barley water. oat- meal gruel, 5unkct or flour ball are nl1. II is true that these are made from tho starch foods, but when properly prepared the starch Is changed into dextrin and grape sugar which is an entirely different food and perfectly all right for babies without testh. Just remember that until you have molar teeth and can chow. yo arue an infant. Liquids and semi-Hquids are your diet. When you have two molars you can have a crust and learn to chew.
 The cereals or starchy foods can now be gradually added 10 your diet if they are thoroughly well cooked. Tho kind of prepared food called Rrape-nuts needs no cooking as the starches In it have been changed by a long and thorough process of cook ing into dextrin mad grape sugar and as 1t contains all of the vitamines of sho whole wheat and barley grains. I consider it extra good for children especially when eaten dry or soon as milk or cream has been added; it thus stimulates chewing.
 When other cereal foods, such as ars usually served as broadcast foods. arc fed to very young children, they must be very we'll cooked. The best way to cook oatmeal for babies or adults Is in q hreies5 cooker. Put 1t in to cook at night. With just a little extra heat in the morning 1t is ready to serve with plenty of rich cream and c litt1e sugar. If good cream is not to be had, add butter to !t be- fore adding the milk, mix it well, then ada tho sugar nnd mix some mora before adding tho milk. The dish so prepared will be much moro nppetfzing than if tho milk Is added first.
 No child under 12 years of age should be given much bread made of fine whito flour. Tho child requires all of tho grain, even tho bran should be finely ground and rotained in the flour. When the breakfast foods are given to tho little tots. they should not only be served with cream and sugar but plenty of milk given to drink besfdes. Tho cereals or bread foods must not be allowed to dom lnsts <he ciet.