At 12 months

4 meals - at 6, 10, 2, 6, or similar convenient hours.

(1) 1 or 2 ounces of juice of sweet orange, or pulp of 6 stewed prunes.

8 ounces of milk.

3 or 4 ounces of well-cooked and strained cereal (farina, cream of wheat, oatmeal, barley, rice, or arrow-root). Salt to taste. Sugar is not necessary.

(2) 8 ounces of milk, with zwieback, plain crackers, stale bread, or toast.

(3) 4 ounces of broth; beef, mutton, or chicken with 1 or 2 tablespoons of well-cooked rice or barley, or 2 ounces of beef juice.

8 ounces of milk.

Apple sauce, pulp of baked apple, or prune juice, if necessary for bowels.

(4) 3 or 4 ounces of cereal, as at breakfast. 8 or 10 ounces of milk.

13 months - add macaroni and spaghetti, alternating with rice at the 2 p.m. meal.

15 to 16 months - add soft-boiled eggs (2 or 3 a week). Best given at 2 p.m. in place of the broth or beef juice. Add thoroughly baked potato, alternating with rice, macaroni, or spaghetti at 2 p.m. Add small amount of butter on bread or potato. Stop straining the cereals.

2 tablespoons= 1 ounce. I glass=8 ounces.

At 18 months

Breakfast - Juice of 1 sweet orange, or Pulp of 6 stewed prunes.

Cereal (cream of wheat, oatmeal, farina, barley, arrow-root, rice, etc.) Milk, 1 glass. Stale bread or toast, and butter.

Lunch - Milk, 1 glass.

Stale bread, or toast, or plain crackers.

Dinner - Broth, or minced or scraped meat, or soft-boiled

Boiled rice, or spaghetti, or macaroni, or baked potato. Stewed celery, or stewed lettuce. Well-cooked and strained spinach, or carrots, fresh peas, and string beans. Stale bread, or toast, or plain crackers and butter. Milk, 1 glass. Cooked apple, or stewed prunes, without the skins, if needed for constipation, or Simple pudding - i.e., rice, bread, tapioca, custard, junket, and blanc mange.

Supper - Cereal (as at breakfast), or bread and milk. Glass of milk.

Stale bread, or toast, and butter. Cooked fruit, unless given at dinner.