-ade. Children in the second year require four
meals a day, one of which is usually only the bottle or a cup of milk.
These meals are usually taken at six, ten, two, and six in the
evening. Oftentimes this early six o'clock meal is just a bottle or
cup of milk, as may also be the evening meal.

CANDY

Now, a word about candy. Pure candy is wholesome and nourishing. It is
high in calorific value, and children should be allowed to have it if
it does not enter the stomach in solutions stronger than ten or
fifteen per cent. We can see at a glance that chocolate creams,
bonbons, and other soft candies should never be given to children.
Candies that they can suck, such as fruit tablets, stick candy,
sunshine candy, and other hard confections that are pure, and free
from mineral colorings and other concoctions such as are commonly used
in the cheaper candies, may safely be given at the close of the
meals--but never between meals.

All such articles as tea, coffee, beer, soft candies, condiments,
pastries, and fried foods, should be positively avoided in the case of
all children under five and six years of age.

The diet from now on will be considered in the chapter "Diet and
Nutrition."

PART III

THE CHILD

PART III

THE CHILD

CHAPTER XXV

THE SICK CHILD

To the mother who has passed through the experience of bringing the
child into the world is usually given that intuitiveness which helps
her in caring for that child when it is well and in recognizing
certain symptoms when it is sick. The newborn baby brings with him a
large responsibility, but as the weeks pass by his care becomes less
and less of a nervous strain, as the routine duties, so nearly alike
each day of his little life, have made the task comparatively easy;
but when the baby gets sick, particularly if he is under one year of
age, and it is impossible for him clearly to make known his wants, and
being unable to tell where it hurts or how badly it hurts, the average
mother is likely to become somewhat panicky; and this confusion of
mind often renders her quite unfit successfully to nurse the sick
baby.

THE NURSE

It is often wise to secure the services of a trained nurse, and if the
family purse will allow such services, a good, sincere, capable,
practical nurse should be engaged, for her firm kindness will often
accomplish much more than the unintentional irritability and anxious
solicitude of an overworked and nerv