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Show f ADVICE TO PARENTS. " Tuu fntiiro ilivUlny of tlio child Is al-w.iyR al-w.iyR ttin wurlt ot tlio niiillior. Tnicuu In no Lellor J lot for rhIMron than milk, mitcronm, vrbit-h Is apt tolio, a llttli- too rich for ttin slomach. Ah a noxrin.i nothing rtpintA a glaiM ut milk taken Jul Mtorn retiring. Die Kinv4iti JnuNsuN ntatna from pomnnal olviorv-tllitii that a diet of Iran muni for iihlldrfii Is Injurious, and that limy do host ifn purely vi-gotahlo nnd farlnartHiim dirt, with porhapn thn.Hln-glo thn.Hln-glo oxi-opllnn ot milk: that, tho one trr.ind oh Jor l In thp ford I up of children U to -eo tliiit tlu-y d" nut csil too much. riiil.linfN mnM ho Irttrrslod Tho porMiiiii uiiil iliuv wlioro llioy ll'nd tho lieonral InlrroMUi aro hoM to uliliU thoy will iill.'ioli Ihi'iiirioh'OH If Iho parent and te.vhtir full lo pro-ooriipy thn Hold, tho dangerous onl-sldo tnflii-onrrR tnflii-onrrR aro anro lo do It. Wo nnmt pro-oi-onpy tho iJuld If we woiild save thv children. Tiirhk ran lo no appe.iranrn moro hopeful nnd piTraiUInc in childhood and youth, than a tondornoMi of consclenco rcpec.tlnp tmatt thing. A child who Is iiijver Innllned to plead oxruiipsfor what ia known to ho wrong, hy paylnc: "Is It not a little thing?" who rnlsl an Improper Im-proper thought,, forbids a hanty word, who fears tho sllghtoot deviation from tho trnlh, hids fair to rise hy gradual hut certain Heps to true oxccllcnco. Tiikiu: Is olio period of life at which ovorwork In apt to ho very disastrous namely, hetween the agOB of twelve and Blxteen. During thl period, rapid mental men-tal and physical development Is taking place, and great strain Is thrown upon overy part of the organism. The hoy Is changing Into the man. the girl Into tho woman. There Is certainly no period pe-riod In tho life of any Individual so fateful fate-ful as this in Its lnfluonco on bis or her future career. It seems a truism to say that tho dyspepsia of adulthood Is formed .In childhood, yot the parents that appro-clato appro-clato tbo prlcoless hlcssln,T of a good digestion for their children sufllclently to rc'gulata their diet during tho years of tholr early growth ore none too many. Tho foundation of tho hahlt of over-oatlng over-oatlng is laid In childhood, and it Is unquestionably un-questionably truo that nearly all por-sons por-sons oat much In oxcess of what they should. An oralnont Urlttsh physician Is quoted as saying that "ono-fourtb of what wo cat goes to sustain life, while tbroo-fourths go to lmporll it." Wiutino of chcBt dovolnpmcnt In young persons, Dr. IJorry, of tho Now Hampshire Stato Hoard of Health, says that hy ono hour's dally cxerclso for eight months, twolvo men from nlno-toon nlno-toon to twenty-eight yeursof ago gained an avengo of nearly three inches.ln chost expansion, tho greatest gain In a single Individual being Qvo Inches. Ho recommends, as an oxcroho for chest expansion, ex-pansion, forced breathing, by deep, slow Inspirations, holding tho breath as long as posslblo; long walks, and tho uso of bomo exorcises. Ho thinks that such oxorciso, begun early, would do much to diminish tho frequency of chronic discaso of tho limps and Increase tho |