The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 17, 1918, Page 17

R - 3 Sl 4 .' 5 L £ b > " and meats; w1th figh and fowl, in the BY MRS. MAX WEST HE weighing and measur- ing test of children under school age, ‘now going forward in connection- with Children’s year, will ~ afford ' American mothers a splendid opportunity to take part in the campaign to save 100,000 lives. When a child is found to be notably ‘below the average in his development it may mean in many cases that he is not sufficiently nourished, from actual lack of food, or because his food is badly, chosen, or because he has -been allowed to fall into bad eating habits. Children must have plenty to eat. Adnlts can get along for some time, if necessary, on noticeably . restricted diets without serious impairment of health, but children can not draw on their reserves in this way without det- riment to their growth and vigor. Children from two to six years should have three good meals a day, the heaviest one being in the middle of the day. Their day’s food should include plenty of milk, not less than 1% pints —skim milk may be used if butter is - given ~also—plenty of cereals and green - vegetables, particularly - leaf vegetables, such as spinach. Itiis de-- sirable also to have a more varied diet and to include sugar, fruits, eggs, 2 s .Y % daily meals. Information ‘regarding these matters will be furnished to mothers if they will write to the Children’s bureau, United States De- partment of Labor, Washington, D. C. In a great many cases, malnutrition is due not to lack of food but to a badly chosen diet. - In this group of cases the remedy lies chiefly in edu- cating mothers in the better selection and preparation of the food of their children. . CONSERVATION IS NOT FOR CHILDREN The necessity of guarding the food supply of young children, and assuring to them an abundant diet of properly selected foods, is assuming every day a more critical phase as the war stringency increases and demands for the ‘conservation of foodstuffs become more urgent. A most wholesome edu- cational movement is going forward among the American people in the use of different foods. Nature is exceed- ingly adaptable, and _ the healthy human being can be fed with a fair degree of success on widely varying diets. ; But while the adult may thrive very well on. substitute. foods of various kinds and even be better offwith son€ ..of these dietary changes, it is not-al-’ ~ways true that young children will g o 1% PAGE SEVENTEEN @ % % p}'ofit by the same course. ‘The child’s /. coarser ones, like oatmeal and corn, ' 'I// /I//// I%Ill ‘I//{, ’/////I; ////////// '/é////// 3 Mothers, Uncle Sam Is Depending on You! Proper Feeding of Children Is Important in Cutting the Death Rate—Many War' Food- Substitutes Are - Not Good for Boys and Girls—Is Children’s Year ///// ’///I/I///’ ., 4% T dietary requirements are less flexible’ need very long cooking to be suitable ! than are those of grown persons, and insufficient or unsuitable food is likely to have serious consequences for the growing child. . GIVE THEM MILK v \ AND VEGETABLES Authorities state that there is prac- tically no substitute either for milk or green vegetables in the food of the growing child. Milk should be given in many forms. Directions for the use of milk in a variety of ways are con- tained in a bulletin of the Children’s bureau,-which will soon:' be ready for distribution. Spinach is one of the best of green vegetables, It can be prepared in a number of ways and should be used ° freely in the daily diet. Fish and. chicken are better for children in many cases .than beef or other meats, and where these foods can be obtained one or the other may be given to chil- dren. e In the face of the great need for conserving wheat the use of mnew cereals has become a matter of neces- sity. There seems t3 be no reason why such food may not be as whole- some as wheat, if properly cooked. Mothers may need to be warned that all cereals, and particularly the .and that all preparations of cereals 'food in the day’s meals if given pota-' -der five will hardly be able to eat baked, mashed, or. freshly boiled. - for children. Therefore it stands to | reason that the “quick” breads and griddle cakes, which have been ex- . posed to cooking heat perhaps only a few minutes, will not be well digested ' should be subjected to long slow cook- |: ing if they are to énter into the diet - of young children. . - LET THE PARENTS EAT THE POTATOES At this moment, also, people are be-, ing urged to eat all the potatoes pos~ sible as another substitute for wheat. | The request is made that families shall eat potatoes three times a day ¢ but this is not intended to apply liter- "% ally to the .youngest children, who I would not get a sufficient variety of, | (T g e s e e toes at each one. The manner of cook- ing potatoes must be constantly varied | or the family will tire of them. The methods will include frying and scal- loping, delicious to the adult palate, ! if well done, but not suitable to young ¢ children. It is wise, therefore, for mothers to remember that children un- potatoes more than once a day. ‘For them~this. vegetable is better when | P e B N A ST