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Show THE NEEDS OF YOUNG CHILDREN Miss Alice Tlavcnhill, professor of home economics of the Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural college, in a little pamphlet published pub-lished by the college, gives some Instructions In-structions to mothers on the proper fferllng of their children. PROPER FOOD FOR THE CHILD i ne year of proper feeding early in life is worth ten after forty years of age."' Regularity of meals is most essential. essen-tial. Judge not the child's appetite by adult's inclination. Teach the child adult's food is not his Cultivate tastes for all-good nourishing foods at the proper time. No adverse comment on food at the table. Variety in da'sj meals but not great variety in each j meal. Plenty of water between mcal. I Serve sweets a end of meal only.! Growing child needs, "between meals." Have them regular and .simple, serving no food of sweet nature to tempt child's appetite. Second Year First 6 Month Milk". C to 1 qt. Cereals strained or jellied 1-21 oz. in milk Cereals unstrained. (Whole grain on account of ash content ) Yolk of one cc (iron, phosnlioru ) Fruit juice or b rained pulp orange juice, prune, apple, pineapple, peach juice 2 3 tsp. Second 6 Months of Second Year 1 tender green vegetable as spinach, spin-ach, carrots, green peas well cooked and strained. Hard bread (to teach mastication and develop gum? ) Third and Fourth Year Milk 3 C. to 1 ql. Milk Hie basis of diet, but varied as junket gelatin, custard cereal pudding, pud-ding, milk toast with bread, corn flakes or rice, l whole egg "boiled ' poached, shirred, in soup, or egg nog not fried or as omelet Well cooked bread, dry or hardened. No sugai except ex-cept in dessert. Fruit at least once a day (cooked with very little sugar.) Green eatables of mild flavor, delicate deli-cate texture mashed or chopped very fine .is .-.tring beans, cooked celery, etc. I Starch vegetable potato baked. Dessert Des-sert --Milk puddings Btewed fruit. Beverages Cereal coffee or milk flavored with a little cocoa occasion ally. No tea, coffee or chocolate. Milk Is the child s beverage of which he should have plenty. Five to Seven Years Same a- preceding oar with a little additional sweet and lat in food. Food too highly sweetened or seasoned, dc-Stroys dc-Stroys natural appetite. As a special favor a little whipped cream Sherbets or ice cream once a week, with and not hetween meals Raw fruits with caution, mostly cooked. Bananas always cooked, unless or ripe. Dried fruits well cooked. I No preserves or very sweet canned Stale bread. Butter spread on bread, never cooked cook-ed In. Stale sponge cake, graham or whole wheat crackers. No meat until after 7 years is best. Eight to Twelve Years mall amounts of meat and fish may be used. No rich gravies or sauces. Sweets at end of meal, never between be-tween meala Plain candies only, Nut butters, not nuts. Jellies spread lightly, no preserves. Raw fruits more freelv, very aid avoided. oo |