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f Copvrlpht. 191S. hv the Stir Company, Great Britain Rieht.s R«aerve4, r FEED the CHILDREN More FRUIT By GEORGE GOW SCOTT, A.B.. M-D. T HE eating of fruit and nuts not merely as a relish, but as a food is highly commendable. Such a diet is very nutritious. But it is wrong to live entirely on fruits and vegetables. A diet without meat is particularly unsuited for the growing child. Owing to the nutritive value of fruit, to its alkaliniz- ing, to its diuretic, to its laxative, to its tonic ahd other effects, I believe fruit should be given more freely to children as food. A To my mind, no other food in its natural state affords so much pleasure to three out of a child’s five senses as fruit. The eye is pleased with its varied forms and colors, and if ripe and luscious it yields a peculiar charm to the nerves of smell and to a jaded sense of taste. Parents tend to give their children too much hot food. Raw fruit and nuts will help overcome this difficulty. The sensory nerves of the lips and the nerves of taste are weakened by hot food. At. the same time the sense of smell is blunted and the enamel of the teeth is de stroyed, making them unfit for mastication, so that the food goes to the stomach unprepared. The addition of raw' fruit and its juices, together with cooked fruit to the daily diet, keeps the child in perfect health and satisfaction wuth the world at large. This is partly due to the organic salts which arouse the appetite VALUABLE QUALITIES Which Should Give It a Place in Every Child’s DAILY DIET and aid digestion by increasing the (low of saliva and indirectly of the gastric juice. As the fruit reaches the intestines the acids increase the activity of the chyme, stimulate the secretions of the liver, of the pancreas, of the intestinal glands and of the muscles. They render the blood less alkaline, but never arid, Combin ing with a portion of the alkaline salts of the serum, the phosphoric acid increases the phosphates in the red blood cells. Fruit acids are also of value in anemia, genera] debility and convalescence from acute illness. No drug, to my mind, can compare with fruit and its juices in the cleansing of the intestinal tract of the products of decomposition and fermentation. Fruit juices contain purer water than the best spring water. The American mother gives the child fruit for a pleas urable purpose and not for food, but it should be eaten at table and constitute a portion of at least one of the regular meals. The tonic effects of fruit and their juices I have repeatedly seen. For the stomachs of weak children 1 advise cooked fruits. To strong chil dren I advise unpeeled fruits when possible, as in peel ing much nutritive value is lost in the skins. The peel ing of fruits removes the upper layer of the fruit meat and many of the flavoring substances are lost, as this part is rich in them. The child should be given well- ripened fruit. In ripened fruits the Quantity of acid and of cellulose is lessened. To obtain a sweet fruit w'ithout much acid it should be allow'ed to hang on the tree until ripe. The albuminous products of raw fruits are easily assimilated in the intestines. Hutchinson reports that- 80 per cent of fruit proteins, 90 per cent of fruit fat and 95 per cent of fruit carbohydrates are absorbed. For years I have insisted that a part of the, child's diet should be fruit, raw or cooked. 1 prefer the raw, w'here nothing prevents. I warn the mother against unripe fruit or even ripe, fruit taken in too large quantities, on account of intestinal disorders. Fruit and fruit juices should be given to the growing child for the following reasons: (11 They are appetizing and pala table. (2) They are very refreshing. (SI On account of their nutritive values. (4i On account of their salts. (5)On account of their diuretic ac tion (GiOn account of their laxative ac- tion (71 On account of their tonic ac Mon. The water contained in the raw fruit juices of certain or of all fruits enjoys a particular property or special vitality—'tang,” ‘‘electrical reaction,” or whatever it may be called. This peculiar “vitality” simulates that of a mineral water. Some suggest that fruits have no nutritive value, but analysis has proved the high value of apples, cherries, strawberries, raspberries, huckleberries, gooseberries, currants, bilberries and peaches. Apples should be eaten, raw after washing thoroughly. They contain potash, soda, magnesia and phosphorus. The natural acid is invaluable for the gums, teeth, stom ach and intestines, being of a germicidal character A sweet, pulpy, ripe apple is most easily digested. In rheumatic or so-called growing pains I have found ap ples of great benefit. The banana is excellent if ripened on the plant. It, has a larger carbohydrate content than the potato. Bananas may be fried, baked, made into omelets and used as flour. The flour should be made from the best quality of ripened fruit and served as a gruel or por- • ' . • V . • ;;: ■ v ■ “ . ■‘Fruil gives three of the child’s senses more pleasure than any other food ” ridge with milk or cream. It is very tempting tc children. Grapes are one of the best fruits. They are antiseptic and disinfectant in their effect upon the intestines. They arc highly nourishing, two or three pounds daily making persons fat. They are recommended for all wasting diseases, especially phthisis. They are valuable, too, in bronchitis and heart disease. Raisins, or dried grapes, are very nutritious. Of protein raisins contain, according to Haig, 8 to 10 grammes to the ounce. Fresh tigs contain 00 to 70 per cent of sugar, a large amount of food sails, and 21 per cent of manganese oxide. The Orientals prize them in diseases of the kid neys, bladder and in gouty and rheumatic conditions. Smyrna figs, I think, are easiest to digest and they are sweet as honey. Dried figs contain too much cellulose to be easily digested. Plums and prunes are digested without difficulty when ripe and lender. Prunes are a great laxative. Their skins are hard to digest, however, and had best be removed by soaking. According to Baliand, dates contain twice as much phosphoric acid as figs, valuable salts, a large amount of sugar and carbohydrates. Where children are sus ceptible to the fermentation of sugar, dates can bo added instead of sugar in the cooking of food. Cherries are easily digested if juicy, thin-skinned and in season. Delicate stomachs cannot, however, digest the skins. Their juice is delicious and refreshing. Cherries contain manganese oxide, sugar and the alka lizing salts of potash, lime, iron and more phosphoric acid than any other fruit. Apricots and peaches when ripe are very digestible. Raw fruit juices often relieve a craving for sweets and alcohol The juices of the orange and lemon are easily; assimilated bv even the most irritable stomach. I consider pineapple juice the best raw fruit juice I know of on account of its peptogenfc and digestive properties. Pineapple juice sprayed upon the mucous membranes cleanses and stimulates them. The sugars found in this fruit are partly grape and partly levulose, with some cane sugar. Sprayed upon the mucous mem brane of the throat it, allays Inflammations and irrita tion Demon and orange juices are also germicidal and| antiseptic. Why Church Bells Are Not Wanted Only PLAYFUL ANIMALS Can Be TAMED H ALF a century or even a shorter time ago the people seemed to have the idea that churches must have great, tall spires and a bell. The present day sees a wonderful change in this respect. Church steeples and great tall tow'ers are being discarded ow'ing to a number of reasons. v Mechanics demand higher wages to work on such structures, as it is more dangerous than on the main building. Material is required that is better than most structural elements, and it is more diffi-. cult to put it in place. Church spires are considered dangerous on account of wind and lightning. ^ More churches with tali spires have been struck by lightning than any other type, and when fire broke out after the stroke the firemen experienced greater difficulty in fighting the blaze. Insurance companies have a higher rate for structures with such tall spires, and it has been found more practical to erect church buildings without such costly and useless ornaments. The church steeple always contained a bell. The church bell is not needed as in former years. The people know' the time of ser vices, and the ringing of church bells in both town and city is fast being done away with by many congregations. In former years the tolling of church bells for funerals was quite common,, but even this practice is an old one in most places. The church bell is rapidly disappearing. N OTHING is more dangerous than dwarfing the sense of play. You may remove all form of study from a child with less peri! than you may rob him of his recreation. The evil of child labor lies not solely in the keeping of the boy or girl out of school and the fatigue of an undeveloped body, it lies more in the confinement which prevents play. A study of the childhood of animals shows with remarkable clearness how important is play to their development, and one of the most significant notes in that study is the evidence that the domesticabtlity —or the readiness to learn habits useful to man—of animals is in direct ratio to their powers of play when young. The play of animals is of two kinds, motion and ex periment. Monkeys play “tig” or ”tag" almost as Chil dren do. and "follow my leader” is a constant game in their native forests. The wild asses of the Syrian deserts race with each other, and this with so great an appearance of definite organization that early travelers darlared them to be half human. The sham fight is al most universal in the animal and insect world, and students of ants have, deserved them as pouring out of the ant-hill on several occasions, "scrambling, wrestling, jumping and pretending to fight, like a crowd of riotous schoolboys at play.” The puppy chasing his tail and the kitten with a hall of yarn are common sights. Among sheep and goats, the phrases the "gambolling lamb” and the “sportive kid” reveal Iheir playful manners. A calf is an ungainly creature, but itwill cavort over the pasture in a manner which is distinctly reminiscent of exuberance of animal spirits. The cock-of-the-rock and other birds hold dances regularly, at which the tango is not excluded, though most of the numbers are solo performances and would be billed as “eccentric dancing ” When domesticated animals are considered, the re lationship between play and submission to taming proc esses is very marked. The young of the grizzly bear play little, the grizzly is littfe tamed; the young of the cinnamon bear play less, the cinnamon bear is never tamed; the young of the black bear play like kittens, and the black bear is a constant companion of the hurdy- gurdy in southern Europe. The young of the baboon do not play, and no one would suggest a baboon for a pet; while the young of the macaque monkeys play con tinuously, aud easily become members of a household. The dogs and cats generally are playful and, as a race, are tamable; the thylacine never play, and no one has attempted to domicile a "Tasmanian devil.” Parrots are playful, eaglets are not, and the rule thus holds true in the animal kingdom. Among sea mammals, seals are very playful, sea lions are not, and one finds seals among the cleverest performers of the vaudeville stage. And, of the larger animals, the elephant alone possesses playful character in youth, and thus while the rhino ceros and hippopotamus can only be seen from the safe side of strongly barred cages, the elephant can be uti lized for a thousand purposes, from that of a derrick to a nursemaid. IMPORTANT NOTICE. Send 10 cents in silver or stamps for our Up-to-Date 1913 Spring and Summer Catalogue, containing over 400 designs of ladies’, misses’ and children's patterns and a concise and comprehensive article on dressmak ing. 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