The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-19
The Use of MIX by Families Having
Little Children.

The Use or MIX by tamiiieS having
Little Children.
That babies and little children are
directly affected by the decreased
sales of milk reported by dealers in
American cities is illustrated by find
ings for Baltimore compiled by the
children's bureau of the United States
department of labor.
OF 756 Baltimore children between
2 and years of age, only 20 per cent
are now having fresh milk to drink.
as against go per cent year ago. And
only 20, or less than per cent of the
children studied, are having as much
as three cups day.
With the babies under 2, the chill
dren's bureau says the situation is a
little less serious. Apparently their
needs are more generally understood
than the needs of the child over 2.
Six in every ten of the young babies
are being nursed by their mothers
(altho a great majority of these nurs-
ing mothers are themselves drinking
no milk at all, and only per cent of
them are drinking the daily pint and
half which physicians recommend.
The number of families who are
buying no fresh milk at all has risen
from 81 a year ago to 10z. or 20 per
cent of those from whom information
was secured. and these 107 families in
clude one-fourth of all the children
under z. At the same time the total
daily purchase of canned milk by the
families studied has increased from
25.5 cans to 81 cans.
Most serious, according to the chill
dren's bureau, is the general substi-
tuition in the children's diet of tea and
coffee. For 81 per cent of the SIS
children who are not drinking milk,
tea and coffee have been definitely
substituted; and "a per cent of these
children are sharing the family diet"
which may-o or may not include tea or
coffee, or milk in other foods.
Taking a pint and a half of fresh
milk as the desirable daily allowance
for the average child, these 756 chill
dren were having last year on an aver
age only 40 per cent of what they
should have had; this year their daily
average has dEindled to 14.4 per cent
of this allowance.
| Some varieties of canned milk can
be used for feeding babies and young
children where fresh milk is not OBJ
| tainable and are far better than in
! FAINT foods that, contain no milk. But
| sweetened condensed milk has the
great disadvantage of a very high
sugar content and is not suitable for
continued and exclusive use in the
| feeding of babies.
The war has made it necessary and
| has encouraged the use of so-caIled
| "fooc substitutes" but it should be
understood, once for all, that there is
no substitute for milk that is of equal
or approximate value for the baby or
growing child. Whatever the eco
nomic condition and whatever the cost
| of milk, there should be no substitu-
/ ton of this important article of diet
| for children.
Until recently the standard of value
| for foods was that of the calory con-
tent and, using that standard, there
| might be many substitutes available
for fresh milk, but recent discoveries
| by Funk, McCullum and others have
| shown that the calory standard so far
as basis for proper nutrition is con-
| cerned, is not a proper standard. That
is to say, there are certain food access
sorry substances which must be present
in the diet of growing child if nor
! mai growth and development may be
| expected. These so-called ''vitamines''
| or food accessory substances are pres
ent in milk~in large amounts, and are
| probably the chief basis of a foods
| value, SO that we now standardize
FOODS on biological basis rather than
on calory basis. In a word, then,
the baby and growing child must have
| milk il normal nutrition and develop
| ment are to be expected.
Questions and Answers.
Question. I am nearly bald as a re-
suit of falling hair and an itching
| 5,
but probably have not followed any
| treatment long enough to give it a
| good trial. tho just lately have tried
rubbing salt into the scalp to cut the
| dandruff and find it beneficial, but it
does not stop the itching entirely.
This treatment is to be given twice per
week. Is this a good treatment I?
Some folks say to cut the hair very
! close in summer. Is this right? Please
answer thru the Journal. F.. r. e.
p. S. This treatment of rubbing
salt in the scalp is a little severe as
| my scalp is a little tender.
Answer. There are two general rea-
sons given by the experts for falling
| hair: First. in certain families it
| seems to be a characteristic of. the
male members of the family to lose
| much of their hair. You of course
know whether this applies in your
case-or not. Second, certain mechan-
| ical and medical reasons: it is thought
that the custom of wearing tight fit
| ting hats, which men do, brings about
| the construction of circulation. or an
| improper nourishment and growth of
the hair. which is expressed in falling
hair. and no doubt this is to some de-
| gree factor. Probably the chief rea-
son is a medical one which is brought
about either by a disease of the hair
follicles, which disease is supposed to