Show Your ou Baby And nd Nine ne neBy By Myrtle Moyer Eldred NEED NUTRITIOUS DIET One o of the penalties of poverty is 15 the necessity for filling children up has even though the filling mUng chosen no food value alue There are adults whose Idea of food values alues 1 is so 50 poor that tha they think because coffee coHee satisfies them it must do as much for the children Children must have growth foods roods not just a a. temporary watery filler fUler Coffee cannot supply anything but a warm pleasantly flavored drink no no more nutritious than the spoonful spoonful spoonful spoon spoon- ful of ot sugar and cream in it BREAKFAST IS IMPORTANT Some Somo bel benighted d adult holds the baby jaby on her lap at the table and of offers offers offers of- of fers him sips of or coffee amused by l his s apparent delight It II is Just a step from Crom that to the childs child's demand for offee ottee instead of his blander and less highly flavored milk There is nothing nothing noth noth- ing harmful to the average adult in ina a moderate moderato consumption of tea or coffee coUte They are arc delightful drinks and those of us who Indulge enjoy them hem enormously Either is entirely entire entire- ly out of place in the diet of chil then dren Children need nourishment at each meal It is 15 literally Impo impossible for or or a child to get sufficient lious food unless he cats eats properly at atall atall all three meals His breakfast is an Important and md vital itaI part of his whole diet and must consist of nutritious quite as well as filling foods Coffee COHee has a stimulating effect with witha a depressing after effect That is quite to be expected for what goes up ip must come down The confirmed coffee coHee drinker recognizes this effect for or he sa says s 's with conviction If I miss mL my coffee coHee I have c a headache b by 10 0 o'clock or Im simply not awake until mill I get my coffee cottee SIDED ONE-SIDED DIET There arc children who grow STOW faland fat fal and flabby largely on n and bread read This limited diet provides pro them hem with starch perhaps some tome butter but but- outer ter t-cr er and the little nourishment there theres Is s in the cream and sugar usar added to the he coffee coHee It furnishes if eaten in sufficient quantities a l high sh proportion proportion proportion pro pro- portion of calories all aU of one type sugar and starch and an imperfect t type ype pe of protein The apparent Increase increase in- in crease rease in weight blinds some parents to o the tho fact lad that their children are under nourished They receive little littler or r none of ot the growth rth elements and the thc he protective elements clements but it is possible possible pos- pos sible Ible for them to fatten on quantities of Df f bread and coffee I The parent conscientious about reed feeding ceding her children and making sure their diet contains all aU the proper prop- prop er r foods outlined for growing chil- chil dren ren would not dream of ot substituting ing lug flavored water for lor tho the essential cups ups of milk Where there is such a uniformity of or opinion as that dren ren must have ha milk In addition to their heir regular solid foods to have an adequate and protective c diet the she knows that she cannot assume the responsibility j of or going count counter r to this advice We can only hope that the parent arent who bolsters up th the thc child with quantities of or bread and coffee coHee is Ignorant Ignorant ig- ig orant of her duty not deliberately ratel Indifferent to it |