ould be
cooked until very soft, and mashed or put through a sieve. For dessert,
plain rice pudding or bread pudding, stewed prunes, baked or stewed
apple, junket, custard or cornstarch. A glass of milk or water.

Supper:--(6 o'clock) Cereal; farina, arrowroot, cream of wheat, wheatena
(each cooked two hours), with salt but no sugar. Give two or three
tablespoonfuls. Drink of milk with stale bread and butter. Twice a week,
a little plain ice cream, or junket, custard or cornstarch.

Three meals a day at this time are better than more frequent feedings.
The child has a better appetite and much better digestion. It may be
found necessary to give delicate children a luncheon at 3 o'clock. A
glass of milk and a Graham wafer, or a cup of broth and a zwieback, will
answer the purpose. Children recovering from serious illness will need
more frequent nourishment. Up to the sixth year the diet may conform to
the above schedule, increasing the individual quantities as
circumstances may warrant.

THE DIET OF OLDER CHILDREN (FROM SIX TO TEN YEARS)

After the sixth year the diet will conform to the adult diet, with
certain exceptions. The important exceptions are as follows: All meats
are to be excluded except roast beef, steak, lamb chops, roast lamb,
mutton chop; all meats should be cooked rare and either scraped or
finely divided. They should be broiled or roasted, never fried, and
never given oftener than once daily, and then only in small quantity.
Pies, rich puddings, pastries of all kinds, gravies, sauces, all highly
seasoned dishes; wine, beer, coffee, tea, should never be given to
children. Ham, bacon, sausage, pork, liver, kidney, game, and all dried
and salted meats, codfish, mackerel and halibut, are particularly bad.

The following articles are permissible: Broiled chicken, shad, bass. The
"platter gravy" from a roast is very nourishing if given in small
amounts. Milk should continue to form an important part of the dietary
up to the tenth year. It should be clean and fresh but not too rich.
Sometimes it is found advisable to dilute the milk with water that has
been boiled and cooled. Some children will take it if a pinch of salt or
bicarbonate of soda is put into it, and they will digest it easier and
better. They should never be allowed to take more than one quart daily
and frequently less will do more good. Cream is not good for children of
this age. Eggs are valuable; they should never be given fried or in the