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Show ercise, fresh air and sunshine, and suppression of acute diseases all tend to a retention of poison and congestion of mucous membranes, and hence "colds" and tonsilltls. Milk and fruit juices should be the sole diet of a child up to two years, and then fruits, juicy vegetables, nuts and a very few of the cereals should gradually be added. Exchange. Why Children Have Bad Tonsils. The treatment of "bad tonsils" should begin in childhood. There Is no more neason why children should have hypertrophied tonsils than there Is for having any other of the diseases rjf childhood. Those children which are nvorfi'd from the day of their birth, and are given meat, potatoes, puddings, pud-dings, pie, cake and other cereal products, prod-ucts, soon after weaning, and often hefo-e that period, most commonly suffer from "tonsils." Warm water bathing -ver-heatcd houses, hick of ex- |