The Washington times., 1919-01-07

with
milk-and just at a time
u when the milk companies
are rubbing it into US poor folks"
remarked a young woman as she
synpathized with a poorer neighbor
who was raking through her worn
out handbag for the wherewithal to
pay her weekly milk bill.
Well. I've gone without a new
winter coat again this year to buy
milk for mine, because the doctor
at the settlement told men that no
FOOD one gives a child ever takes
the place of milk. But mine do not
drink 1t one glass after the other.
They are not particularly fond of
milk just as it comes from the bot
tie. So I have learned to hide over
one quart apiece each day in their
food"
1t seems an unspeakable crime
that. with the whole world suddenly
learning to think for the helpless
and unfortunate, the price OF milk
should be beyond easy reach of the
majority of human beings.
Nevertheless, bemoaning the fact
is not getting milk for Americas
little ones. And until some one IL
big enough to take the milk dealers
by the horns and force them to
terms the American housewife must
just grin and bear it. 1t is hard
1t Is very hard. 1t Is heart-break-
ing when one thinks that perhaps
the child OF wealthy parents may
never be so valuable an asset to the
State as perhaps the child of some
poor woman whose child must grow
up with an undernourished body,
detrimental perhaps to the wonder
full mind that might have been.
In the meantime. women who are
intrustsd with preparing the meal.
for children must make every effort
to provide milk.
Often milk IL not properly cared
for after 1t reaches the home, aad
this causes the inexperienced to say
that milk does not "agree" with the
child. When the milk Comes to the
home in bottles. the bottle should
be carefully and thoroughly washed
OF with a clean cloth and clear
water before being put into the
refrigerator. There are a number
Of devices on the market to replace
the paper stopper. and II will repay
the housewife TO look into these
inexpensive cOnveniences.
Milk makes" a child's body And
II Is also one OF the cheapest body
building foods for children even at
its present high price. But little
ones often tire OF milk as early as
their second year. and this just at
the time when they need milk
There are several causes for this.
Sometimes il Is due TO unattraCtive
serving. Sometimes 1t is due 10
the fact that children are gwen
tastes OF highly favored foods like
bacon or beefsteak and then milk
seems insipid and tasteless.
BIt often the child just Graves
variety. And when the child will
not drink milk from a bottle or a
glass. instead OF coaNing or scold-
ing or bribing, try "camOufage"
"But," some one says. ~ try to
give my child cream OF potato soup
as you suggest. he sees just milk
because Of the white color"
Then try the cream soups which
have some color. cup OF Juice
strained from cook al spinach might
b" combined with cup Of thicken-
ed milk and result in a cream OF
spinach soup of delicate green color
Likewise a cup Of strained tomato
to which a speck of baking soda
has been added, may be stirred into
a cup OF thickered milk and result
in an attractive cream Of tomato
soup Of delicate hue
Use milk in mullins. in cocoa. in
chocolate. corr starch or cereal pud-
dings Cse milk in egg custard
tapioca. or cook rice in it A slice
OF we'll toasted bread will absorb a
fair quantity Of milk yithout
showing" A little sugar end a
speck OF powdered cinnamon will
make this milk toast look Ike