| Show FEEDING l CHILDREN V children who while growing must form more tissue than they waste consume more food in proportion to their weight and possess more active digestions than adults they should have their meals with shorter intervals and care should be taken to avoid all influences fluen ces that may disturb digestion prominent among these is a deficiency of clothing the human body me like any other thing of greater warmth than the surrounding air has a constant tendency to pariC part with its excess of heat by radiation and to check this cooling process we envelop ourselves in fabrics it stands to reason that the greater the surface exposed the more rapidly will radiation occur and yet we frequently see children with chest arms and legs lega bared by fashion in the coldest weather without regard to the general depression of temperature which chien must involve that of the digestive organs the diet of children should be re regulated u by a consideration of their ene kne functional capacities in infancy nature furnishes in the mothers milk all requisite elements in a condition requiring 1 no mechanical treatment but merely simple chemical action A little later as the first teeth begin to make their appearance food easily separable may be allowed alidas and as the masticating masti cating apparatus advances towards perfection articles requiring more tearing and grin grinding ding may be dra gradually dually added to the he catalogue the activity of the digesting secretions increases in proportion to dental development so that many substances such as potatoes which are easy to masticate are not digestible to in early childhood the milks of different animals vary in constitution as regards the proportion of their constituents human milk containing more water and sugar than that of the cow for this reason when an infant is brought up by hand or in the process of weaning it is usual to dilute and sweeten cows order to bring it nearer the human standard goats mlle milk for the same purpose would require more dilution but no sweetening its percentage of sugar exceeding even that of the cow it id is extremely doubtful however whether the addition of water to cows milk serves any good purpose and it is certain that far too much Is usually added human milk contains about 89 parts of water in cows milk about 86 or three parts less in yet to compensate for this slight difference the latter is commonly diluted with double its hulk bulk of water before giving it to a hungry baby be it always remembered til that at an infants most proper food is its own OWE mothers milk and that she who can suckle her child and does it not is guilty of a serious offense against gods law A L carroll in harpers maga zine sine for fop november |
