Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-05-04 | Page 3 | When Children Won't Eat, Mother May Find Extra Nicknacks Spoil Appetites

When Children Wont Won't Eat Mother May Find Extra Spoil Appetites Editors Editor's note This article the he third of six on child health topics may help parents to solve the mystery mery of wb why Juniors Junior's appetite or often n lags las By Dy OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON It is all very well to suggest certain foods for Cor children but there is something something some some- thing to be said about the eating itself The weary chant of the average mother is I 1 give my children all the vegetables and thin things s the book says but I cant can't make them eat cat Mary Mars wont won't drink milk Tommy wont won't e cat cal t anything but pancakes or pork and beans and Sue just nibbles like a mouse Well that is too bad but not un un- un usual Yet there is something wrong If H those three children had to get getup getup getup up at 6 walk two miles to school come home and feed chickens chopwood chopwood chop chor wood even go O out and hitch up old Maude and drive to the nearest village for or a sack ack of ot flour lour I am sure they would eat cat Mary would drink her milk and be glad to get it Thomas would be glad to devour his New England Eng land dinner and Sue would pack her vittles down like a thrasher EXCEPTIONS NOTED We might make an exception o of Mary It happens once In a mauve moon that children cannot take their full rull quota of a quart and a half or a aquart aquart aquart quart of milk a day dllY Dont Don't ask me inc mel why why such such cases are rare In that tha case If a child really becomes Ill III on too much milk try them on less Thomas is more basily disposed of He has a fixed appetite for his favorite favor favor- ite itc Mere mental prejudice turns him against other wholesome things Besides he should worry There are arc the pancakes and thick sticky beans all Ill ready His mother is afraid he wont won't cat so she caters to him We shall have to play Hawkshaw with Sue and follow Collow her after school schoola a soda a bag of or caramels some cake out of the pantry that no nd one knows about She gets a quarter a week and between that quarter and her girl friends she is bootlegging secre secret delights Caramels wont won't hurt her or sodas or cake e either ther But these thin things s have their time and place and that isn't an hour before meals If Sue has a stomach that lies down and dies i if anything of the sort goes into it I am 1 afraid we had better take awa away her quarter and lock up the pantry Are Arc the spinach and carrots and cabbage and tomatoes fixed up so that the he children just take one look one taste aste are arc completely astonished and then hen gobble up the whole business and ask for more Tempting an appetite is not outside the law It is on the other hand perfectly legitimate and praise praise- worthy Dont Don't boll spinach throw some pepper pepper pepper pep pep- per and salt into it and set it down downto to a cold sad funeral Pep it up Chop it very fine make a nice cream sauce with witha a little onion juice in it or a hard boiled egg chopped up Toss it around in the spinach Serve it piping hot Dont Don't boll boil it all day by the way Buy it young Joung boil i It 15 minute That's a good rule for all leaf vegetables Carrots I hate them but I will wil cat eat them this way way mashed mashed with buther butter butter but but- ter her salt saIl and pepper and watercress around the dish Your children may not like cress but the idea is to dress it up make it different Grind carrots carrots car car- rots raw with cooked beets and beans or peas Make a regular gipsy salad Color enters into catin eating But above all see sec that the children play outside enough to get ct hu hury ry or exercise in some way Dont Don't Dont Don't let them get too tired to eat cat however They should be out in itt good weather from three to six hours a day In a yard not on the street all the time I Mealtime is not scold time nag time threat time nor time Make it pleasant and jolly I