When May Other Animal Foods Be Added?

"Soft-boiled or poached eggs may be given children in their second year, and in some cases the first. It would be well to give only one or two teaspoonfuls at first, and never more than one egg at a meal until a child is four years old. The practice of permitting children to eat two or three hard-fried eggs is most reprehensible and dangerous to the child."

When May Solid Food Be Allowed?

"A child should have a good number of teeth at two and a half years of age, and this may be said to be about the beginning of the third period."

Are No Meats To Be Allowed Before A Child Is Two And A Half Years Old?

"Meats are given after eighteen months of age. but they must be scraped, ground or in some way reduced to a pulp or powder."

After A Child Has Teeth, I Suppose It May Be Given A Dry Diet?

"Only to a limited extent. The diet should still continue much the same, except that the bread need riot be soaked, nor the meat powdered. Cooked garden vegetables (one variety at a time), chopped crosswise of the fibre, may be added to some of the meals."

When Would Yon Change This Diet?

"Well, there should be no radical change made from this diet, except an increase in quantity, and some relaxation as to straining foods, when a child reaches five or six years of age."

When Would You Allow Such Prohibited Foods As Tomatoes And Bananas?

"They might be tried in a limited way, at six or seven years of age; baked bananas at two or three."

Would You Allow The Use Of Fried Foods At This Age?

"No; I would bar the frying-pan for all ages." "Doctor, you seem to be severe. You must consider the effects of bad feeding and training very far-reaching in their effect."

The fearful infant mortality only faintly indicates the direful results of ignorance on this subject. Who can measure the sorrow, anxiety and care expended on sick children, that could easily be avoided? Nor is this all; they are allowed to grow worse than maimed, a burden, to themselves and often a care on their friends or society.

Why Is There Not Some Anxiety On The Part Of Parents, To Give Their Children Freedom From Pain And Disease, As Well As Riches? Is Not A Sound Body More Conducive To Happiness Than Wealth?" "Then You Think If Children Were Properly Ushered Into Manhood And Womanhood, And Taught How To Live, Most Of Our Troubles Would Be Averted?

"Undoubtedly; even a weak child, if properly fed and trained, may be developed into good, healthy manhood or womanhood, and their growing period is the time to correct their defects."

From 12 To 18 Months Old. "Doctor, Will You Arrange Dietaries For Children From The Age Of One Year To Maturity ?

"I have already done so, and will read it to you:" "A child 12 months old should be fed at about 7 and 10:30 a. m.; 2:30, 6 and 10 p. m. If the child is not weaned, it will probably be advisable to allow it to nurse the first, third and last meal, and fed the second and fourth. When the nursing is reduced to twice a day, it will be best to nurse the second and last meals, and finally feeding may be substituted for these, as weaning progresses. A child a year old, will require forty ounces of modified milk, one-third of which is milk and cream - 'top milk.' A child a year and a half old will require a pint, to a pint and a quarter of top milk, and two or three ounces, when strained, of well-cooked starch, either rice, barley, flour, arrowroot, sago or oatmeal, four or five teaspoonfuls of sugar, and a pint and a half of water, for the five daily feedings. Meat broths, egg or prepared foods, may be substituted if they agree with the child better than milk and starch."

In Following This Outline For Feeding, What Would Be The Most Probable Error?

"Giving an excessive quantity of food and too little fat

- the result of poor milk "

Dietaries - 1½ to 2½ Years of Age.

Milk, cereal gruels and mushes, sago, arrowroot, tapioca, eggs, bread and milk or broths, scraped meat in small quantities, meat broths, rice, milk or gelatine or starch pudding, stewed fruits that do not require sugar, such as apples and prunes, without skins.

2½ to 6 Years.

To above add: Meat, powdered or scraped, bread, entire wheat, fish, fruits, according to directions, cooked garden vegetables - except tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers - wheat gluten, mashed potatoes, baked potatoes. 6 to 10 or 11 Years. Additional foods: Tomatoes, bananas (occasionally), raisins, oysters. Straining will not be necessary for cereals, but for legumes, peas, beans and lentils, ground or cooked until they are of consistency of puree, powdered nuts."