Starr 1.

Diet From The Twelfth To The Eighteenth Month

7 A. M., stale bread soaked in a breakfast cup of new milk. 10 a. M., milk, six ounces, and soda biscuit, or a thin slice of buttered bread.

1 Louis Starr, M.D.: "Hygiene of the Nursery." Philadelphia. Blak-iston.

2 p. M., beef tea, six ounces, bread, and a tablespoonful of rice and milk pudding.

6 P. M., same as first meal.

10 p. M., a tablespoonful of Mellins' Food in eight ounces of milk. In alternation, a lightly boiled egg with bread crumbs and six ounces of milk may be given at 7 A. M., and at 2 p. M. a mashed baked potato, moistened with four tablespoonfuls of beef tea, two tablespoonfuls of junket.

Diet From The Eighteenth To The Thirtieth Month

7 A. M., new milk, eight ounces; the yolk of an egg lightly boiled; two thin slices of bread and butter, or else milk, and two tablespoonfuls of well-cooked oatmeal or wheaten grits, with sugar and cream.

11 A. M., milk, six ounces, with a soda biscuit or bread and butter. 2 p. M., one tablespoonful of rare mutton pounded to a paste, bread and butter, or mashed potatoes moistened with good dish gravy, a saucer of junket; or else a breakfast cupful of beef tea or mutton or chicken broth, a thin slice of stale bread, a saucer of rice and milk pudding.

6:30 p.m., a breakfast cupful of milk with bread and butter, or soft milk toast.

Diet From Two And A Half To Three And A Half Years Of Age; Children Who Have Cut Their Milk Teeth

7 A. M., one or two tumblers of milk, a saucer of thoroughly cooked oatmeal or wheaten grits, a slice of bread and butter.

11 A. M. (if hungry), a tumbler of milk or a teacupful of beef tea with a biscuit.

2 p. M., a slice of underdone roast beef or mutton, or a bit of roast chicken or turkey, minced as fine as possible, a mashed baked potato moistened with dish gravy, a slice of bread and butter, a saucer of junket or rice and milk pudding.

7 p. m., a tumbler of milk and a slice or two of soft milk toast.

Diet From Three And A Half Years Up. Breakfast

Every day: milk, porridge and cream, bread and butter. One dish only each day: Fresh fish, eggs lightly boiled, poached, eggs scrambled, eggs (plain omelet), chicken hash, stewed kidney, stewed liver. Sound' fruit may be allowed before and after the meal, according to taste, as oranges without pulp, grapes (seeds not to be swallowed), peaches, thoroughly ripe pears, and cantaloupes.

Dinner

Every day: Clear soup, meat roasted or broiled and cut into small pieces, bread and butter.

Two dishes each day: Potatoes baked, potatoes mashed, spinach, stewed celery, cauliflower, hominy, macaroni (plain), peas, string beans (young), green corn (grated).

Junket, rice and milk or other light puddings, and occasionally ice cream, may be allowed for dessert.

Supper

Every day: Milk, with toast or bread and butter, stewed fruit.

From the third to the fifth year the child has twenty teeth, and often three meals a day suffice, although from the third to the fourth year four may be given. After three years of age it is not possible to lay down definite rules for the quantity of food allowed. In health the appetite may be taken as a fair guide, and the child will not eat too much if taught to eat very slowly, and thoroughly chew each mouthful.

When the second set of teeth begin to replace the deciduous or milk teeth, which gradually decay, digestion is sometimes interfered with temporarily, from lack of ability to masticate thoroughly, and food should be subdivided before it is offered to the child.