Show IF CHILD WONT EAT IT MAY BE FAULT OF HABIT NOT APPETITE By y MYRTLE l MEYER ELDRED ELORED Bring your problems problem about diet general care an and mana management ement of or children n to Myrtle Mey Meyer r Your questions will wUl b be answered promptly jf It you will send a sell self addressed 3 cent J- J ent stamped envelope with your letter to Mrs Eldred in care of the Y Your ur Baby and Mine Miner department of this newspaper I dont don't know why my child wont won't cat cat hes he's hes just never hungry My little daughter wouldn't take lake cereal or anything much until she he began to feed herself It seemed as if it choked her Such reasons for as ns expressed by parents are woe woe- fully tUlly alike The frequent uc use of or the thep phrase rase wont p eat indicates only t too o plainly that in their eyes the basis of the is stubborn stubbornness stub stub- born ness This is Is s far from the truth There arc innumerable real reasons for tor ap ap- which Arc ere no fault of the childs Our leaflet Physical and Psychological Reasons Reason for Appe Appe- I enumerates a number of them then It may be had by sending ending a self addressed cent 3 stamped envelope envelope envelope en en- to Myrtle Meyer Eldred care of the Your Baby and Mine department department depart depart- department ment of this newspaper Children who ore neither ill nor badly trained may show inexplicable dislikes for lor certain textures of foods foo The food itself may cause no digestive di digestive disturbance but is refused because it is stringy or slimy or grainy or oily When the childs child's reaction toward such a food is persistent the form formin in which the food tood is served may be changed or another food of ot similar similar simi simi- lar mr substituted There is little lit lit- tic tle tb use in throwing up ones one's hands and reiterating reiterating for for the childs child's benefit ben ben- that that she wont won't eat cereal when this valuable type of food tood can be served in In- Inthe the form torm of brown rice wheat barley oats corn and even ripe bananas The never hungry explanation is illogical if it the child is fed right right- ly If It he isn't then why blame the child Children who cat eat sparingly sparing sparing- ly at meals should have not one bite to cat between meals To tho the parent it seems no doubt that the child cats nothing but were she to total in calories the cookies crackers bread and jelly half a banana piece of candy drinks of milk which the child consumes off and on during the day the he reason for f or the app at meals would v bo be apparent The ordinary reasons for tor this condition condition con con- can most often be corrected easily if the mother will pay attention attention atten atten- I atten-I tion to what foods the tho child refuses and nd endeavor to determine ermine a logical r reason eason for the refusal And when the child cats birdlike at a meal make sure that the thc sharpness of oC his appetite is not being dulled between meals |