DIET AND i HEALTH By DR. J. T. ALLEN i ' Food Specialist | ! Author of “Rating for a Purpose.” “The JVettLf '» Gospel cf Health.” 1 Rtc. <| ^CopyrtgUtT^y^Joseph^^^^^^ij^^ INFANT FEEDING. The effects of wrong feeding in adult life, including those of alcohol ism and other forms of intemperance, are undoubtedly hereditary whether the habits of alcoholism, tobacco and unnatural eating are transmissible or not. We know that the vitality of the infant is determined by the vitality of the parents—though not altogether by the average vitality—and- the powers of nutrition are the fundamental pow ers transmitted to offspring. We may not always be able to trace family history in eyes and lungs, but we can always find it in stomach and liver and intestines. The food of the young dog, horse, cow, ape and human, in common with all other mammalia, is milk. The nat ural food of the mature dog is flesh; that of the others is vegetable. The digestive systems of the ape and man resemble, slightly, that of the dog; not. I think, as some argue, because their natural food is largely flesh, but because nuts closely resemble flesh, chemically. The gorilla has "canine” teeth, but it is a strict vegetarian. The boar's "canine" teeth are his means of defense. Albumen, the chief constituent of flesh, is digested chiefly in the stom ach by the action of the gastric fluid. Accordingly, the intestine of the dog is short m proportion, the stomach be- j ing 60 per cent, of the entire digestive tract. The cow's stomach is very com plicated; she has. in fact, four stom achs. This is because her natural ! food requires much dilution with sa- j liva and rumination before it can be passea on 10 me intestine. not. ina. i proteid is the chief element of the ; cow's food, as in the dog. Now the stomach of the cow plays a much more important part, relatively i to the intestinal digestion, than in ; man. Cow's milk is, chemically and j mechanically, adapted to this physio logical difference. It does not as soon I break up into small curds, and is. i therefore, retained longer in the calf’s : stomach. This peculiarity partly ex- : plains the difficulty of digesting cow's milk and should be considered in any I attempt to modify cow's milk so as to | adapt it to infant feeding. We know that the health of the in- 1 fant, its nervous moods, its physical health and temper in general, are in fluenced by those of the mother, i through the food. This alone would in dicate the impossibility of perfect j adaptation of cow's milk to infant feeding. At best it is unnatural, but os it is in many cases necessary, part ly or entirely, we must make the most of it. An imperfectly nourished child is more liable to diseases of child hood and survives with greater dif ficulty. Food is not, of course, the only requirement for health, but it is ^ fundamental. While the food of all young mam malia is milk, yet the milk is adapted to their varying development and j varies to a large degree, as the food of j the parent. The milk of the dog, for , Instance, typical of flesh-eating ani mals, contains about six times as much proteid as that of non-flesh eat ers, including man. The proteid in hu man milk is about one-third that in cow s and sheep's milk. Wool requires a large percentage of proteid, and the cow as she exists to-day produces three times as much solids, including fat, as most other herbivorous ani mals, largely because the demand for “rich” milk has caused the rejection of those animals that yielded thin milk. The fat, however, in rich dairy cow’s and human milk is nearly equal, but the sugar in the former is only about half. The fat in dog's milk Is three times that in human milk, the sugar one-third. This variation in dicates that fruit sugar should form a large part of the food of infants, as af children and adults. The supply of candy to children, or of cane sugar, in the form of cheap candies, poisoned with coloring matters, instead of fruit sugar, which is an important element of the natural diet, is a serious error. In cases in which cow's milk must be used, care should be taken to see that the cow is healthy, unless herd miiK is usea, mat no preservative is used, that the bottles and other ves sels with which it comes in contact are washed well with boiling water, never with river or cistern water, that it is not unnecessarily exposed to dust or barnyard contamination, for milk absorbs bacteria as a sponge absorbs water and they develop very rapidly. The feeding bottle should be thorough ly washed in boiling water after and before using. It is best to have two, the one not in use kept immersed in a solution of common baking soda. Cow’s milk can not be made iden tical with the infant’s natural food; but it can be approximated to it. The chief difficulty to be overcome is to modify the large curds of cow’s milk that tend to remain in the stomach longer than they should, as the de velopment of the calf’s stomach re quires that its food shall have a much heavier curd than that required by the infant, in which intestinal digestion is more important. The use of lactic tablets, as explained in my last ar ticle, entirely obviates this difficulty besides overcoming other objections to the use of cow’s milk. To reduce the proportion of the ele ments in cow’s milk to approximately the standard of human milk, pour off about half of the fat that settles to the top of the bottle; add as much wa ter as the whole amount of milk and a tablespoonful of sugar. Milk sugar is to be preferred to cane sugar, always objectionable. The addition of a lit tle lime water is, in many cases, bene ficial. As a rule infants, like adults, are overfed. No doubt one of the rea sons for the greater endurance and freedom from disease of wild anim&lii is the fact that the young are lestt likely to be overfed, as every natural ist knows. An infant probably would! starve in one-tenth the time that ar adult can subsist without food, bu( eating too often and too much be comes a habit with the infant as with the adult. An infant mey cry for food when it is food drunk; what it may need is water. And children cry for other reasons than because they are hungry. Stopping an infant's cry con tinually with food is easy but unwise. Nature provides an extremely light diet for the first few days of infancy. Once every two hours is often enough for the first month and every third hour thereafter. If there is a real demand between the periods, sweetened water should be given (dis tilled or boiled water and milk sugar). Constant overfeeding causes an abnor mal appetite, as in the adult, that is never satisfied. No definite rule can be laid down as to the amount required. The best that has been suggested is, an ounce for each month, beginning with two ounces, increasing to eight ounces at eight months, after which full milk will be used. Moderate, judicious ex ercise now becomes important. A child needs exercise before it can walk. The freer its opportunities for movement the better. The infant digestive system is not adapted to cereal food, always a cause of more or less digestive difficulty and expenditure of vitality, even in the adult. Under no circumstances shouW white bread, moistened with tea, cof fee, milk or gravy be given to an in fant. There are many infant foods on the market, composed of cereals or of cereals with milk, malted. In cases of milk poisoning, or of serious digestive disorder resulting from unbalanced feeding, due to the inadaptability of cow’s milk, something must be sub stituted for the milk, but it does not follow that because a child improves on the substitution of one of these prepared cereals it is better as a permanent diet. It is also well to keep in mind that a child is not healthy merely because it is fat. It may be failing to develop the diges tive system normally, it may become so ."flabby’’ that it will fall a prey to disease when the fatty degenera tion has reached its limit and the con ditions are favorable for disease. l ne common practice, when cows milk disagrees, is to adapt the milk by mixing it with oatmeal or barley water. This cereal tends to break up the ccarse curd of cow’s miik, but it is in itself unsuitable, though the remedy is belter than the disease; the prepared foods are better as the cereal in them is malted. Cereal foods are digested with dif ficulty bv the adult and should not be given freely to children. Coarse bread, never less than two days old, is preferable to fine white bread which a child should never be given fresh. At the age of one year a very small quantity of pulverized fresh peanut may be taken, at noon, in water, form ing a peanut cream, and the amount very gradually increased till at two it forms half the diet. A small piece of zwiebach may now be added to the evening meal and very gradually in creased till it becomes one-half, by weight, of the evening meal, when both should be continued. At three, the regular diet of c'uild hcod should be fully established. At seven in the morning a drink of wa ter with lemon juice and only enough sugar to make it acceptable; at eight, apple, cantaloupe, ripe banana or oth er froit; nothing else, unless water is railed for. At ten as much artificial buttermilk as can be taken; at noon a slice or more of whole wheat or com bination cereal bread with pulverized peanut. If the child is really hungry and healthy he will eat this. At three give the modified milk. At six zwiebach with honey or, if pre ferred. prunes only. Give water as often as called for between meals, but nothing else. Let the solicitous parent be fully as sured that this diet will develop the highest qualities of body and mind and that sickness will be avoided, if the child is properly aired, watered, exercised and amused and protected from stagnated, foul air, bad water and sudden changes of temperature or too much clothing in warm weather. The goat is the healthiest of all ani mals, always free from tuberculosis. Its milk is in every respect superior to cow's as a substitute in infant feeding, and it ought to be adopted for general use. there being no rea sonable objection but lack of knowl edge of the facts. It is a poor goat that will not give from one to four quarts of milk a day, and it costs no more to feed than a dog, where there is a fair-sized back yard. tests show that goat’s milk approxi mates to the natural infant’s food more closely than does cow’s milk. Di gestive tests indicate it to be three times more digestible, the curds be ing much finer and the fat far more soluble. Absolute cleanliness and freedom from disease is, however, the chief recommendation of goat’s milk. “Go to the hills and drink goat’s milk,” was the prescription of Hippo crates, the father of medicine, for tuberculosis. We are making ’ the search for a cure for “the great white plague” a serious matter, as it should be. but the true cure is at least fully suggested in the method of the Greek physician. Dr. Koch, the eminent discoverer of the tuberculosis germ, says the bo vine and the human germ are not the same. Howevei this may be, milk i from a tuberculous animal is unwhole ! some; it may furnish a medium for the culture of tuberculosis. A case is on record in which a farmer, pro hibited from selling the milk of an in fected herd, fed it to his hogs and they were infected. Now comparative anatomy and 1 physiology and evolution attest that the nutritive system of the pig close ly resembles man’s. It is chiefly because of the superior healthfulness, in general, of the goat, and Its immunity from tuberculosis in particular, that I have advocated the substitution of goat’s for cow’s milk in infant feeding. Tflmree (S©©d m——-———h Bouse for Girl from 14 to 16 Years. ~T i _ j Ooth Jacket. 4 !. I A Simple Blouse. n in v w Blouse for Girl from 14 to 16 Years.—Cream wincey is employed for this blouse; two tucks are made from shoulder to bust each side; the trimming consists of bands of embroidered galloon, round collar, down center front, and round armholes and sleeve; the tight under-sleeves are buttoned nearly to the elbow. , Materials required; Two and a half yards 30 inches wide, two and three quarter yards trimming. A Simple Blouse.—A firm kind of washing silk is admirable for a blouse such as this; two inch-wide tucks are made from shoulder to bust, and about six small ones between; the box-plait down center is covered with lace or embroidery, a band of the same being taken down outside of sleeve. The deep cuffs are of finely tucked silk. Materials required: Four yards 22 inches wide, one and one-half yards trimming. Cloth Jacket.—Here is a practical, easily made jacket, in Amazon cloth to match the skirt. It is fitted by a seam taken over the shoulder from edge of basque, back and front. The front slightly wraps over below bust, and is fastened by invisible hooks and eyes, and ornamented with buttons and cord loops. Embroidered galloon outlines the neck. Felt hat trimmed with a buckle and quills. Materials required for jacket: Two and a half yards 4G inches wide, one yard galloon, three buttons, four yards silk. DESIGN FOR VISITING DRESS. In Russet-Brown Velveteen and Fine Face Cloth. Here is a very elegant combination >f russet-brown velveteen and fine face I :loth. The plain trained skirt is of | velveteen, so are the tight-fitting un ier-sleeves. The overskirt and pina fore bodice of the cloth are trimmed with a Greek key pattern, worked with gold and brown narrow braid; velvet covered buttons form a further trim ming. l he yoke is or piece lace. Hat in velvet of the color of the skirt, lined with soft, pink satin, and trimmed with a rosette of satin and a long brown feather. Materials required: For the dress, nine yards velveteen, four yards cloth 48 inches wide, several dozen yards of narrow braid, three dozen buttons, one-half yard piece lace. High Boots of Tan. As the winter weather advances there is wider popularity for the smart tan boot that laces or buttons six and eight inches above the ankle. The extra heavy soles are not used as much as they were for city streets. They are kept for county roads. The fashionable shoe has a sole of or dinary thickness, is well arched, has a. slightly rounded toe, and a high, straight Spanish heel. OLD FASHIONS COME BACK. Ornaments Worn by Another Genera tion Become Popular. So much that is old has become new that our grandmothers’ possessions are being held up as the latest thing in fashion. This is rot only true of cloths,' scarfs, hair ornaments, high heeled slippers, but of jewelry. With the craze of Byzantine jewelry has come the revival of three kinds of ornaments worn by another genera tion. These are corals, seed pearls and rameos. All three are in the height of style. Necklaces of seed pearls are almost 13 valued as diamond ones these days. Brooches of them are sought after and worn with great pride. Cameos, if good, are now worn on the most elaborate evening gowns as well as for street. Large ones set in Qligree gold or seed pearls are used for the shoulder clasp or the front of the bodice or a belt buckle; the small er ones are quite fashionable to catch turnover collars together, to fasten a jit Dot, or to pin a bow of ribbon. CHINTZ HANGINGS ARE LIKED. Especially for Bedrooms That Have a Chilly Aspect. For inside curtains heavy linen either natural linen color, in white oi colors, is very popular. They are se lected, of course. In accordance with the fittings of the room and are trimmed either with applique of linen in contrasting colors, with braid or embroidery in heavy linen thread. Chintz bangings are also very popular and chintz and cretonne are now shown in a more remarkable variety of colors and designs than ever be fore. There is quite a fad at the mo ment for the blue and white or the red and white chintz hangings for use, of course, in rooms suitably decorated. The wall of a room, for instance, may be in pale gray or white and gray when blue and white or red and white chintz will be used for hangings and upholstery. These chintzes are not quite so striking as they sound, the red chintz, in fact, being quite mild in effect. The color is a light and rather dull red and the patterns show a great deal of white. For some bedrooms, such, for instance, as have a rather chilly aspect, these chintzes are ad mirable. They seem more suitable for men's rooms than the flowered chint zes in pink and green, lavender and yellow which are so charming. The Pierrot Ruff. A Pierrot ruff, but having a huge bow at the side in which little Pierrot would not have known himself, is one of the pretty little gifts to pass from friend to friend. Choose marquisette, crisp chiffon, net or point d'esprit in one of the catawba or wistaria shades. Iluffs of these exclusive colors may be found in some of the shops, or the materials may be bought and carefully doubled and quilled into shape. The very full quillings are then fastened on to a soft fold of silk of the same shade, measured to fit the neck. The bow of satin ribboj is, again, the iden tical color, and be sure the match is perfect. While it is very lovely to say “tie on with a big soft bow,” it is far wiser to caution the giver to have the bow tied permanently, and to fasten Pierrot’s ruff with a hook and eye. Frills on Muffs. A pretty fashion is that of adding a frill of soft satin or closely plaited chiffon to the , lower edge of fur muffs. Brown is used with all brown furs, black with black and white with such furs as ermine and white fox. When furs are scant this addition is a decided improvement. The immense round muff3 that are forcing their way to the fore have the cosiest-looking arrangement of quilled and primly looped ribbon at the ends where the hands are received. Plans for Bedrooms. Instead of a double bed take two single bedsteads, remove the upper part of the footboard, put the two ends together in one corner of the room, make a bed on each. Then you have the center and the sides of the room for other things. It is also nice for a larger room that is to be occupied by two individuals or elderly people, for they can each have their own bed and can often wait on and be company for each oth er many times when otherwise they would have to be alone. And it is a good way to fix the little girl's or boy's room, so that when they have chums come to see them and stay over night they will have a nice spare bed for them in their own room. Rosebud Hatpins. The latest novelty in hatpins is the natural rosebud or half-grown flower which, by some wonderful process, is transformed in all its perfect beauty I of form and color into an imperishable I substance. Nestling in the fur or > foliage of a smart hat, they add the I newest touch of elegance. j A HOG COT GOOD FOR SUMMER OR WINTER A-Shaped Structure Which Is Equipped with a Door and a Ventilating System. The A-shaped hog cot Is adapted to both summer and winter condi tions. It has a permanent floor, a door in each end, and a ventilating system. It is constructed by nailing inch boards on six joists, two inches by four inches, eight feet long for the floor. Heneath the joists are nailed three stringers, two inches by six inches eight feet long, which serve as runners for moving the house. Next is spiked a piece two inches by eight inches, nine feet four inches long, at the ends of the joists, having the bot tom of the two inch by eight inch even with the bottom of the joist which will allow it to project above the floor three inches. It will also extend out seven inches at each end. This two inch by eight inch forms a plate to which the rafters and roof boards are nailed. The seven-inch extension of the plate at the ends supports the low A rear door, identical in size with the front door, is held in place by cleats nailed across it on the inside and by buttons fastened on the out side. This door is not opened regu larly, but provides ventilation in sum met and aids in handling sows at far rowing time. Above the rear door is a small sliding door, 8x12 inches, to admit light and air. Another important feature of this house is the ventilator, which is a small cap covering a hole at the top and the center of the roof. The hole is made by sawing off opposite ends of two roof boards and covering it with a cap so arranged as to leave openings three inches by 12 inches on each side of the roof. This is suffi cient ventilation for two or three ani mals when all the doors are shut, and if more ventilation is desired it can easily be secured by opening the small Front View of A-Shaped Hog Cot. er corners of the roof which other wise would be easily split off. These 2x8’s, besides strengthening the house, raise the rafters and roof boards nailed to them at least three inches off the floor and thereby materially in crease the floor space and the capac ity of the house. If the house is to be used in extremely cold weather a movable door is necessary. The illus tration shows a door two feet wide and two feet six inches high, made to slide up and down and held in place by cleats. It is suspended by a rope which passes through a pulley at the top and is fastened to a cleat at the side near the roof. The cut also shows two iron eyes bolted into the front joist of the building to which the hitch is made when the building is moved. sliding door in the rear. This simple plan of ventilation avoids any direct drafts upon the animals and proves very efficient. With these improvements the cost in building the A-shaped house is somewhat increased. All the boards except those used for the floor should be dressed on one side. The following lumber is necessary to construct this portable house: Nine pieces 1x12 in., 16 feet long, and 11 O. G. battens 16 feet long for roof: 5 pieces 1x12 in., 14 feet long, for ends; 1 piece 2x4 in., 10 feet long, for ridge; 2 pieces 2x8 in., 10 feet long, for plates: 7 pieces 2x4 in.. 16 feet long, for rafters and braces in frame; 3 pieces 2x6 in.. 8 feet long, for stringers and 4 pieces 1x12 in., 16 feet long, rough, for flooring. Stable Witb Box Stalls 1——-*-----,— I The ground plan shown above is for of manger, to rear of stall. The main a stable 44x70 feet. The arrangement door can be made in two doors ukt? gives three box stalls in each end, six feet wide, which will admit of a which can. if desired, be arranged into stone boat or sled being taken in to stalls. The two cross feed passages clean out the stable. There will be are six feet wide. Stalls for cows six space enough to drive in a horse and feet wide and six feet long from front turn around. A Curtain Front, Laying House The front should be toward the south or east to avoid the worst storms. A framework covered with canvas enables it to be closed at night. Per fect ventilation can be obtained by this means and in fine weather full ad vantage can be taken of the sunlight. Wire netting is used to cover the windows. _ I Lost Art Rediscovered. A chemical discovery, or rather re discovery of what was an old Roman secret known to have been used about GOO years ago, is a liquid preparation to prevent iron rust and wall damp ness. When applied to the bottom plates of ships it is said to prevent ox idation, animal or vegetable marine parasites and growths and, besides preserving the life of the iron plates, will also add to. the speed of liners and warships. When the inside of a ship is coated over with this liquid it stops the “weeping" of the inner skins of the iron sides, which, as ship pers so well know, is so often the cause of much damage to ships' car goes. Freshly plastered rooms when paint ed with the same preparation admit of mmediate occupancy or decoration, as the paper can be applied without de lay o*- damage. The tests have ex tended over a period of many months, and the results have been announced as successful. Have Plenty of Litter.—If hens are confined to the poultry house on cold days see to it that they do not have to stand on the bare floor. Use straw, corn stalks, corn husks, or other dry material for a floor covering. Hens with cold feet will not lay very many eggs. A Word of Caution.—Too much dry feed and too little exercise is bound to cause impaction of the digestive sys tem. Don’t let this happen to your sheep—it is so easy to avoid it. Provide Plenty of Water.—Although j turkeys will eat snow, they should not be permitted to do so, but should be given plenty of fresh clean water. They Sell Best.—When raising tur keys for market medium sized ones will be found better than extra large j ones. t 1 A Labor-Saver. 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