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CHAPTER III THE CHILDREN'S MEALS There is no part of household
economy so generally neglected as the children's meals,
particularly from the time when liquid diet is supplanted by solid
food up to the beginning of school days. When a seedling is first
set in the earth, it is carefully shielded from the hot rays of the
sun and watered regularly till the roots are well grounded. Then
the shield is removed and gradually the plant grows, until, with
proper care, it reaches perfection. The way of children is the
same; when the little one is weaned and taught to eat solid food ?
up to maturity ? his diet needs supervision; but the first six
years, great formative period of health, are the most critical of
all, for just as the plant wilts in the hot sun and shrivels from
lack of water, so may the little child fade if the correct diet is
not provided. As children grow irregularly they demand, at
different periods, various kinds of food for building purposes ?
yet at all times enough of each element must be provided to insure
the even growth of all parts of the body. Up to the age of eighteen
months, the child has eaten little- except milk, bits of stale
bread, some hard crackers, a morsel of rice, a little beef juice,
or, occasionally, part of an egg and some orange juice. He has not
been particularly active and, therefore, has demanded little
starch, the milk-sugar, with starch from bread, sufficing to meet
his need, as he is occupied with the business of growing. He now
commences to be more active, both bodily and mentally, and needs
more starch, or activity- making food, to replace the energy he so
freely gives off. This is best supplied in the form of cereal or
bread. At the same time the pliable little bones are withstanding
great weight in proportion to their strength and ne...
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