The Washington times., 1919-11-14

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that makes children grow.
You Owe Milk 10 Your
Children's Bones.
Every mother wants her children
to have straight, strong legs. Both
milk and eggs help to make the
bones strong. Children who do not
get these foods are almost sure TO
have a disease called "rickets."
Their bones, being weak, bend un-
der them and get very much out of
shape.
Milk gets dirty easily, and Il is
very hard to make II clean after IL
from such foods as apples and
oranges, from which the dirt can
be wiped II milk Is left uncovered
and dust or other kinds of dirt fall
on It or II IL Is put into dirty dish
the dirt sinks to the bottom and IL
Is impossible to get Il out Dirty
milk is almost sure TO make chill
dien sick. and 50 the greatest pains
should be taken to buy clean milk
and keep IL clean
Use of Clean ssNim NM.
Whole milk Is far better for chfI-
dren than skim milk. but clean skim
milk is better than dirty whole
milk. II the mother cannot get
clean whole milk she had better
use clean skim milk and give the
child a little extra butter to make
up for the fat that was taken off
when the milk was SKINNED.
The something" In milk that
makes children grow comes from the
grass and other green things that
the COW eats. The same Something
in eggs comes from the green food
that every good chicken raiser pro-
vides for his chickens. From the
green food II gets into the milk and
the egg yolks This substance, 90
much needed by all young animals.
Is also In lettuce, spinach and other
greens. For this reason these vege-
tables are good for children, partic-
ularly when milk and eggs are
scarce.
Some children do not like veee-
tables, and II does little good to try
to persuade them to eat them A
better way Is to put them into soups
or gravies without saying anything
about it For example, make milk
stews or gravies and put into them
any small amounts of cooked vege-
tables that may be left over or some
fresh vegetables cooked for the pur-
pose. Here Is a recipe for q milk
stew. With plenty Of bread. a large
bowl Of II makes a good dinner for
a child.
Milk Stew With veeetables.
quart milk. whole or skim
cup raw potatoes, cut in small pieces
few leaves lettuce, spinach, or other
greens cut into small pieces or chopped
A small piece Of onion
level tablespoons butter or bacon fat
Salt
Boil the potatoes tin soft and
drain. Cook the other vegetables
in so little water that they do not
need to be drained. Add to the
milk. Heat add the fat and season
with salt.
Almost any vegetable can be used
for flavoring milk stews. Or lit
tie fish or chopped dried beef may
be used. In the case OF very little
children care should be taken not
to serve any tough foods like large
pieces of dried beef unless the
mother has time TO watch and see
that they are well chewed
Another way to use milk is IN sirn-
pie puddings:
Rice Pudding.
l quart milk. whole II teaspoon ground
or skim. nutmeg or CHINA
Ia cup rice. mon, or the grated
Ia cup sugar. rind OF \ Of q
II teaspoon salt. lemon.
Wash the rice thoroughly, mix
the ingredients. and bake three
hours or more in a very slow oven.
stirring occasionally at first.
Apv ~ cpraaI oatmeal
meal or cracked wheat can be used
in place Of the rice and molasses or
brown sugar can used for sweeten-
ing and flavoring.
To say that child does not need
flesh foods like meat, chicken and
fish IL IL has plenty OF milk does
not mean that these foods are not
good for 1t. The chief point is that
they are not needed, and when used
in addition to milk they are eNtrav-
agant. So far as health is concern
ed, some of the tenderer flesh foods.
like fish or chicken, may be given
in small amounts even to very young
children. No child. however, should
be given tough meat that is likely
to be swallowed in large pieces.
Fried meat Is particularly harmful.
Use Fresh or Dried Fruits
Fruit once a day is good rule.
If you cannot afford fresh fruit. get
dried fruits. Soak them well and
cook them until soft. II the child
is delicate, give only the Juice or
pulp. Very young children who are
just beginning to eat other things
than milk should be given the
juice only of the fruits. A little
later they may be given the pulp.
A healthy child Of school age can
eat spples. peaches and plums. skin