Show TACT ACT T AND INGENUITY HELP MOTHERS WHEN DIETS DIETS- ARE PROBLEMS I Food Becomes More Alluring If Child Assists in Preparation By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED Bring your problems to Mrs Eldred In Jn care of ot the Your Baby and Mine department of ot this newspaper Your questions about diet general care and management manage manage- ment meat of ot children will be answered answered an an- promptly if you will vill enclose enclose en en- close a self-addressed self three-cent three s stamped envelope le let letter ter In the matter of t getting children interested in a wholesome variety of offO fO foods mothers find that tact and ingenuity ingenuity in in- accomplish what may be completely u unsuccessful when approached approached approached ap ap- ap- ap on the basis of ot authority and Some of these suggestions suggestions suggestions are set forth today Children are quite often otten indifferent ent to vegetables Even the tiny baby will eat cat them though if Jt they are are served in some food tood for which h he has hs hasa a distinct liking A gradual increase in the amount of the concealed vegetable vege table will accustom him to the new taste and eventually encourage his acceptance of ot it alone The child over two years of age ge may have raw as u well as cooked vegetables Carrots Carrot or turnips cut Into thin attractive slivers silvers and md nd crisped in Ice water as u we prepare celery has a tar jar greater appeal than these same vegetables cooked cooke Children Chil dren are eager to eat them Vegetables which the child can caD help prepare take on an allure comparable com corn parable to the relish with which adults adul eat their own special original I kitchen concoctions The child may mayuse mayuse mayuse use a silver knife and cut the thc lengthwise lengthwise length length- I wise strips of vege vegetable into cubes cube s. s He can see these safely disposed in ina a wire b basket ket and cooked to tenderness tenderness tenderness tender tender- ness over a kettle of boiling water He may dump them on his own plate salt and butter them slightly or or cover over them with an appetizing smooth cream sauce It would be a strange child who wouldn't enjoy their consumption after alter this personal effort Spinach can be washed and washed to the great delight of the child chUd and then steamed and chopped to a paste with appetizing results Older children may learn to make an intelligent selection of ot menus from the attractive pictures of foods in magazines Thus they discover that the noon meal is in incomplete without vegetables and having learned this basic fact they eat them with no displays of pained annoy ince ance nce Naming the vegetables alliterative alliterative- alliteratively ly lyp such as Corn Cora Carrot and Sally Spinach and Benny Bean give them personality and md the child reacts reacts re rc- re- re acts els by bya a a greater deference toward the hurt feelings s of th these vegetable characters As we said before tact paves the way toward more varied diets which would be bc unnecessarily diminished by the use of force or punishment My leaflet Introducing New Foods contains many helpful hints for lor the mother A self addressed three-cent three stamped enveloped should be sent with your request to the Ute Your Baby and Mine department of ot this per |