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Show SCS M , 1 KM T A L KS Ira Diet for a Child Four Years of Age Nearly all of the food (excepting milk) of a child three or four years of age should require chewing. It is wrong to feed these little tots soft stuff excessively; they gulp it down and suffer from disturbed digestion, and the teeth arc not developed if they arc not used. Little ones should not be restricted to three meals a day, but should be fed four or five times regularly. This is the natural thipg to do. It is unnatural un-natural to force the child to overload his stomach in the endeavor to tide over the hunger he suffers when his parents are grandmotherly enough to prohibit "piecing." "Piecing'' is bad only when it is irregular in time and when the food is some poisonous lollypop or other improper article. 1 am not condemning the lollypop, for it may be as pure and wholesome as the best stick candy, and every child should have candy, but only for dessert, des-sert, never between meals. Bread and butter and sugar is. the ideal "piece." Breakfast A glass of milk. A dish of homc-cooked oatmeal or other cereal with plenty of cream and sugar to taste. A baked apple. A piece of buttered toast. Ten o'Clock Lunch Two graham crackers and a glass of milk. One o'Clock Lunch Creamed or baked potatoes. Bread and butter, and an egg. Stewed or fresh fruit in season. Four o'Clock Lunch A pretzel, some toast, crackers, or bread and butter. Seven o'Clock Dinner Vegetable or meat soup. Any vegetable. Potato. Some baked fish, or roast meat, or an egg cooked as desired. Bread and butter. Cookie or cake. Fruit, nuts, or candy. Cup of hot water, sweetened, with cream added. This is a sample diet, with liberal allowances for a three or four year Dr. Brady xolll answer all signed Jet writers arc never printed. Only inquiries column; but all inquiries will be answci envelope i3 enclosed. Requests for diagnot be considered. Address Dr. William Brad old child in ordinary health. The important im-portant thing is to sec to it that the child chews his food, and that he has food worth chewing. The great objection to many of the so-called breakfast foods is that they are too sweet and too soluble, so that they slip down without mastication and salivary digestion. One of the reasons why graham crackers arc pop-! ular is the fact that they stimulate' chewing. Lucky is the youngster whoL is permitted to gnaw at the bones ) It is a silly ana deplorable custom-in custom-in some households to cut a child's meat from the bone for him, on the ground that it is impolite to take a bone in the fingers and go after it in' good old antcdcluvian fashion. This! sort of etiquette was the invention ofj people who were shy of soap and water but nowadays most of us washj our hands before we sit down to eat. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Pasteurized Not Sterilized "Whet Is tho difference- between pnntour-, ized nnd sterilized milk? (Mrs. J. W. D.) ANSWER. Pasteurized mill: contalnc perms. Sterilized milk contains no perma., Vaateurizlnft means heating the milk tx n temperature of GO degrees Centipradti nnd holding: at that temperature about twenty minutes, and cooling. Sterilization means heatlnp to the bolllnjr point (100 dpprccs Centigrndo, 212 docreoa Fahrenheit) Fahren-heit) for at least Ave mnutce. Pasteurized milk is supposed to bo more digestible, or rather the moderate beating lo sup-' po3cd to avoid certain vapue changes caused by extreme heat, yet sufficient to destroy most disease perms. If the milk Is clean in the first place it needs neither pasteurizing nor boiling, for lnfant3. Nervous Girl and Her Wisdom Tooth Am 21 and have been real norvoun fori Ave ycarfi Tho doctor doesn't seem to be nble'to cure me. Have been anemic for two and one-half years. I often have nervous ner-vous chills at night Throat also bothers me. but doctor can see nothing wrong with It. I suffer from 3everc neuralgic headaches, and have been having trouble for the last four mouths from an impacted wisdom tooth. (M N ) ANSV7DR. Don't dally with the tooth. Have it exhumed at once. There is no tellinp how much better you will be when that focus of Irritation is removctl. Possibly Pos-sibly it has been the primary cause of all the trouble since you were seventeen. ters pertaining to licalth. The names of of pcncral interest arc answered in this red by mail if a stamped sclf-addrcsscd is or treatment of individual cases cannot !, care of this newspaacr. |