ld be taken with this meal
unless the child's bowels are too loose.

Mothers should insist on their children eating these muffins. If a child
eats only what it likes it will not eat what is good for it. If the
mother insists in the right way she will win; if she does not the child
will win. If the child wins, the mother is the wrong kind of mother. I
do not know of any other single article of diet that is of such value
to growing children as these bran muffins. Children who eat them
regularly will have less sickness than other children; they will be
strong, healthy and full of energy. The bran in itself is not
responsible for this list of excellent acquirements, but the regular
eating of the bran is. Most ailments of children are of
gastro-intestinal origin; bran keeps the entire length of the
gastro-intestinal tract sweet and clean; if the child eats a bran muffin
with each meal it will not have much desire or much room for any other
form of bread or pastry. If white bread or pastry is abstained from the
child will not have indigestion, or constipation, and hence it will not
be constantly poisoning itself as most children do whose diet is not
restricted and whose bowels are more or less constipated.

These muffins should be made of the ordinary unsifted bran. If this is
not procurable the sifted bran (Johnstone's) may be employed. This bran
may be bought in any good grocery.

Modern milling methods, modern cookery, and modern methods of forced
farming, have each contributed their share of rendering food inert and
frequently deleterious. The miller has extracted the coarse cellulose
from the various flours in the effort to manufacture a product suitable
to the super-civilized public demand. This cellulose is absolutely
essential to gastric and intestinal digestion, and if children are
deprived of it constipation and indigestion are the natural result.
Forced farming accomplishes the same effect--the fiber of the vegetable
is deficient. Bran is rich in mineral salts, iron, protein, and
phosphates, and gives to growing children the ingredients which ordinary
food is deficient in. Bran prevents intestinal fermentation and children
who eat it are free from intestinal gas and putrefaction. It harmonizes
chemically with all other foods. Children should be made to take it
every day as a matter of self-preservation and of duty.

HYSTERICAL CHILDREN.--Hysteria is not a disease of infancy or of young
children. It is seen as a