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3 Regular - Balanced Diet ~~ - yo Over Fat Children Become Super-Sensitive-- While _ Thin Youngsters are Always Pining--Careful Diet is the Solution By Marie Anne Best * Article 9 Sometimes we see among our school children a round-faced good natured school girl or boy who is wrapped in rolls and rolls of fat. nickname is "Fatty," He tries to ap- pear as though he doesn't mind his name even though each time he is hailed it is a reminder of his avoir- dupols. . He is generally easy to get along with and no one realizes that self-consciousness,- fear and the in- feriority complex lurk behind that ap- parent placidity. True there is one fat boy who cherishes and guards his plumpness for it brings him a good big salary--* 'Fatty' in Our Gang Comedy." No doubt he thinks his fat is worth all the discomfort and ridi- cule he receives. But "Fatty" will grow determined some day when he outgrows being a boy and decide to reduce just as Freckles will seek to. remove his complexion hindrance to good looks. However when fat has been one's companion since childhood great care must be taken when reduc- ing for the excessive fat has produced lack of resistance and has impaired vitality. . A little overweight in children need Of course his | not worry the parent for it shows that | they have good digestion. Fat' is also | an excellent protection for the nerves ' and it provides storage for heat and energy. Some surplus weight is often advantageous until the body has | ceased growing but the markedly over-, welght child who is the subject of this | article is miserable. Taken in easy stages the child can safely reduce if all the elements of food for health and growth are main- tained. Milk and milk products are very essential to the growing child and for the overweight child skimmed milk is to be prepared because the cream removed is only the fat taken out, Of this skim milk at least one pint should be taken daily, especially while the child is reducing, and can be prepared in many ways. If he does not like it for drinking it can be put in puddings, also boiled, in with cereals instead of using water. In this way tlie taste is not detected. Re- duce the quantity of potatoes, white bread, butter sauces, lean meats, fish and fowl but it is to be remembered all these: things are necessary for growth: so do not dispense with them by any means. Fruit and vegetables, especially the vegetables, cooked well and mashed for the very young make the best main diet next to milk. We often and usually find that the fat child loves candy. Candy between meals encourages over-eating. Child- ren whose parents allow them to eat much candy between meals, to have meals when they like and who are en- couraged to overeat the things they fancy, are going to have a hard time sometime. When grown they will not have the same chance as the child who is taught self-control, regular eating habits and wise selection of foods. Give the little chap or girlie his candy for desert for awhile who has had an unlimited supply and teach him self control, with.-regular eating habits and he will learn to be master of his fate and captain of his stomach, Bad habits are always hard to break, ex- cesses hard to control, but the earlier we learn self control the easier it is to do it' After school if a child comes home hungry give him a glass of milk|" or a slice or bread and butter; cookies, ch®olates or candy should not be handed out indiscriminately for it tempts him to eat for the taste alone and destroys his appetite for the re- gular meals. } " Worse still and more serious is the _under-nourished child. He is receiv- in Many Cases ing attention everywhere from physi- | clans, nurses, and others interested in child welfare, in fact in some up-to- date schools milk is served every day to all the children. In fruits only strained juice should be given at two years, then well stew- ed fruit can be added, then gradually accustom him to.the raw fruits per- fect-ly ripe and fresh with skin and seeds removed. Vegetables should be cooked and mashed as a rule, Eggs are very good for children, especially the yolk, but if eggs cannot be given, oatmeal and other whole grains with green vegetables may take their place, If lots of milk and one egg a day is given a child does not need meat until seven years old. Meat is a stim- ulant which the child does not need. It is valuable because it requires chewing, but stale bread will answer the same purpose, efcouraging masti- cation. A "ew Rules for the Normal Child Sometimes we will see a bright, healthy looking, happy baby given all kinds of things to eat just as soon as he can put out his baby hands for it, then as time passes the family won- ders why Jimmie isngt getting along so . well. His tender healthy little stomach has been asked to do too much and his growing body is made up of just what food he eats. Pattee, the noted dietitian, says a child should have in the second year and on through the growing period one quart of milk each day and never less than one pint. Milk is edsy to digest and has all the ingredients necessary for growth. He loves his well cooked cereals and laughs and smacks his lips when he gets his two or three tablespoons of strained fruit juice be- tween meals. So often liftle children are not given enough water, Milk does not take the place of water. When bread is given it should not be too fresh, in fact stale bread should be given, for it encourages mastica- tion and a good way to start a child to grow fond of vegetables is to add a little of it mashed in his milk to acquire the taste. As the child grows, milk should be continued in cream soups, puddings, junket, homemade ice cream, custards, milk toast. Children enjoy cereals for supper aswell as for breakfast and to the child who dislikes milk as a drink it can be disguised by cooking the cereals in milk as stated above. Children 5-6-7 should have three full meals with light lunch of milk and crackers or a slice of bread and but- ter after school; cookies, chocolates, otc., should not be encouraged for it tempts him to eat for the tdste alone and destroys his appetite when meal time arrives. Some More Foods and Calories for the Grown Ups 100 Calories Portions Syrups and sugar-chocolate % square, cocoa 3 tablsps, honey 1 tblsp., maple sprup 2 tblsps, sugar 2 thlsps, br. sugar 2% tblsps. Uncooked vegetables--beans, string, 2 cups, lima 1-6 cup, dried 2 tblsps., cabbage, raw, 1-3 head, celery 2 heads, corn 2 small ears, cucumbers 1 large, lettuce 1% solid heads, peas, canned, 1 cup, carrots 2 medium, olives 6 or 7, potatoes 1 medium white or sweet, spinach 3% qts.,, tomatoes 4. Beverages--Chocolate % cup, grape juice 3% cup, orange juice 1 cup (clear tea and coffee have no calorie value). Cereals cooked--Oatmeal and corn- meal each 3 tblsps.,.cornflakes 1 cup, rice 2 tblsps. shredded wheat 1 bis- cuit, taploca 2% tblsps. Meat substitutes -- Creamed dried beef, 3% cup, creamed codfish 4 cup, oyster stew % cup, welsh rarebit 3 tblsps., raw oysters 12. Next week--Some Comments. ------p New police regulations in Los Angeles ordain that uniformed officers must keep their hair trimmed, shave once.a day, clean and press uniforms otice a fortnight, wear black shoes, and keep them polished. Socks must be black, and all buttons, badges, and _-- Malcolm session of the annual convention held with Hugh Savage, of "The Cowichan graph.) 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Style No. 2701 may be had in sizes 8, 10, 12:and 14 years, Patterned wool jersey, wool challis prints, rayon novelty crepe, light- weight weed and the heavier weight cotton are suitable and smart for school days. Size 8 requires 2% yards of 85-inch material with % yard of 39-inch con- trasting. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plain- ly giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20¢ in cap-pleces must be gold-plated. stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap Hilustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur-' "| row if you can possibly avoid it. ------ it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto, -------- > Wise Counsel Keep good company or*none. Never be idle. If your hands cannot be usefully employed, attend to the cul- tivation of your mind. Always speak the truth. Make few promises, Live up to your engagements, Keep your own secrets if you have any. When you speak to a person, look him in the face. Good company and good conversation are the very sinews of virtue. Good character is above all things else. Your character cannot bé essentially -injured except by your own acts. If any ona speaks ill of you, letgyour life be so that none will believe him, Ever live, misfortune excepted, within your income. When you retire to bed, think over what you have been doing during the day. Make no haste to be rich if you would; prosper. Small and "steady gains give competency with tranquility of mind. Avoid temptation, through fear that you may not withstand it. Earn money before you spend It. Never rin in debt, unless you see a way to get out again. Never bor- Do not marry until you are ahle to sup- port a wife. Never speak ill of any- one. 2 te ttm ei Language in Russia Tn' spite of the rapldly increasing popularity of the English language in educational and industrial circles in the Soviet Union, German is still first choice among students of foreign tongues, according to an item from Moscow printed in the Vossische Zeitung of Berlin." In the year 1928 the Soviet State Publishing Company put out 444,000 textbooks in German, of which 383,892 were used. The number of English text books issued in the same year was 27,000, while textbooks in French totaled 25,000, of which but 9,545 were used. The shady collector was showing his antiques to a man who knew him pretty well, and he said: "I have seri- ous thoughts of disposing of all these valuable curios. But how much do you think I should get for them?" "I can't quite say," replied the other; "but I should think about three years." recent meme An angler, who had been trying to hook something for the last six hours, was sitting gloomily at his task when a mother and her small son came along, "0!" cried the youngster, "do let me see you catch a fish!" Adress- ing the angler, the mother said, severely: "Now, don't you catch a fish for him until he says 'Please'!" sm ---- # InTRODUCTION--Not very uch Sunday School ~ Kesson October 12. Lesson |l--Mary, the Mother of Jesus (An Example of Motherhood) --Luke 2: 15-19; John 2: 1-5; 19: 25-27. Golden Text --Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.--Luke 2: 19. ANALYSIS. I. THE HEART OF A MOTHER, Luke 2: 156-19, II. THE CONFIDENCE OF A MOTHER IN A GOOD SON, John 2: 1-5, III. THE CARE OF A GOOD SON FOR HIS MOTHER, John 19: 25-27, 15 told us of Mary the "highly .vored" (Luke 1: 28), but what is told is good. In the story of the angel's visit she is revresented as the simple, modest, pure-minded virgin, obedient to the heavenly vision and the word of God, ing. It I, evident that her kinswoman Elizabeth thought highly © her and received her visit with gladness. in the song of praise which is attributed to Her (Luke 2: 46-65) there is also evideace of a mind richly stored with the sacred literature and history of her people. It is true that in the most strenuous and uctive period of his ministry Jesus became separated more and more from his mother and his brothers and that they were at times inxious for him. His friends on one cecasion are said to have even doubted his sanity (Mark 3: 21, 31), and his mother may have shared their doubts, But there was orobably no more in this than the natural wonder und fear with which they must have regarded his words and deeds and th» growing excitement and enthusiasm .f the peo- ple who gatherel in multitudes «bout him. We have reason to believe that in the end he recovered their confi- dence and that both his mother and his brother ware numbered among his disciples. I. THE HEART OF A MOTHER, Luke 2: 15-19. Thea stories told us in the first chap- ter of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, regarding the birth and infancy of Jesus, the visit of the wise men, the vision of the shepherds, the tcenes in the temple, and the flight to Egypt, reveal to us something of tke wonder, the mystery, and the high hopes which gathered about the new-born child. Another story of his early boyhood and first visit to Jerusalem with his parents (Luke 2: 41-51) makes a sim- ilar impression. This wi s no ordinary child--to a true mother what little child evor is? Mary mighc have been pardoned if she had magnified in mem ory some of the things which had been said and done regarding him. She "kept all these sayings oondering them in her heart." vs. 19, 51. What is! Even the commonplaces of child life add to her golden store, ard each new wakening faculty of body or mind has for her a beauty beyond comnare II. THE CONFIDENCE OF A MOTHER IN A GOOD SON, John 2: 1-5. The writer of the Gospel saw in the or anticipation on the part of his mother of the exercise of Jesus' mar- velous powers. It may be, however, t. at in callin * his attention to the lack of sufficient wine for the festive occa sion shc was simply doing what she was accustomed to do at home, rely- ing upon the willingness of her son to help and his resourcefulness in times of nead. She was solicitous for these friends of hers, who were celebrating a wedding according to the custom of the time, that they should not be put to shame before their guests. and she appealed to this strong, canable, kind- ly son with the hope that he might be able to do something. The answer of Jesus (v. 4) sounds harsh to us in the English translation. It is not necessarily so in th: Aramaic language in which it was spoken. III. THE CARE OF A GOOD SON FOR HIS MOTHER, John 19: 25-27. It was the. last dread scene on Cal- vary. "Standing by the cross" were four sorrowing women, the mother of Jesus, her sister, who was Salome, mother of John and James the sons of Zebedee; Mary the wife of Clopas who was probably "the other Mary" spoken of in Matthew 27: 56, 61, and 28: 1, and Mary Magdalene. John his be- loved disciple and friend was with them and to him Jesus commended the care of his mother. What the circum- stances were we do not know. It must have been that at that time none of her own sons was in a position to as- sume that responsibility. It was na- tural, therefore; that his nephew, her sister's son, should care for her. Jesus would, in his last thought for her, place them in the relation of mother and son. In the midst of the leng EE smmeTTII--IT though not without fear and question-| _ a treasure house the heart of a mother | incident related here some ~xpectation | 2 f v4 Cold Gas Well May Prove to be Helium Snyder, Tex.--An analysis of the powerful substance which for several months has been flowing from an 1,800 foot well near here is to be made. It is now believed that this cold gas Is pure helium and that it may be of great commercial value. The gas comes from a hole with a pressure of 150 pounds to the square inch. It was piped into a boiler and used to operate well-drilling rigs and for other indus- | trial purposes. Another interesting feature is that i the gas is so cold that it is used to ! refrigerate fruits and vegetables, It | has attracted widespread attention | have been able to explain satisfactor- | ily the cause of the high pressure be- | hind the flow. It was generally sup- | posed to be pure air until the helium | theory was advanced recently by J. B. I Carper, economic geologist. | i the cross he had thought {or his moth- er and gave her another son, who "to Kk her unto his own hoe." Only once again is Mary mentioned in the New Testament, and that is as tne of the company gathered in the upper chamber in Jerusalem after the risen Christ had pa=ted- frou them. where they "witli or e accord continued steadfastly in praye-." until the great wy of Pentecost came. We may im- rine Mer growing old in the } ome of John _he apostle, who best interpreted the teaching of Jesus as a mospel of love, and who, we may well believe, exemplified thao teaching in his life. We may think of her as still preserv- ing her rich treasures of memory and often speaking of the words and deeds &f. her great son to ose who had known him in the days of his flesh in Jerusalem and Ga W. can pa, her no higher honor than to remember Yer as a good mother, chocon of God 0 eo iour and Lord. climes Insects' "Death Chair" An "electric chair" for mosquitos and other insects and pests was re- cently devised at a tree researc! boratory. The "chair is a large square with two sides made of ex tremely fine wire. A current is pass ed through these sides, killing all In. sects alighting thereon. A weak cur rent is used, running from an electric bulb socket through a transformer into the wire gauze. During the day, bait is used to attract the insects; at night, a light is placed inside the | "Girls may love nice, old things, but they wear nice, new ones." : \ ae . A man who was missing things from his premises every morning gave his servant, Pat, a sovereign, and told him to go to town and buy a good yard dog. Pat come home that night dragging a mangy-leoking dog after him. "What kind of a dog is that?" roared his mas- ter, "Begorra," replied Pat, "he's the nearest to d dog I could get. He's two feet, eleven inches." w---- They had been married a month, and he had left her for a few minutes while she prepared a salad in the kit- chen, Suddenly a piercing scream rang out, and he rushed to the kitchen, prepared to face he knew not what. "Whatever is the matter, darling?" he panted. "It's a--a caterpillar!" she said, with an effort, "Oh, Herbert, what if I had been in the house alone?" drawn out agoi.y of those hours on - Mutt's Rather Fussy About Music. MUTT, Don't You THINK THAT'S. Good? IT WOULDN'T LIKE tT cveN (FT WAS GooD! { among geologists, but none of them | ive a mother's care to Jesus our | | ness, subject to the law of supply and Old Man Riveris | Brokenin Spirit 7 No Longer a Giant, the Mis J sissipi Retreats Before Eo et Gulf Waters k 'New Orleans.--The mighty Father 2 of Waters, broad and coffee-colo: in its lower reaches, is showing the ef- SEX fects of the drought which swept the ; Ya U.S. during the Summer. Starting as iY | a tiny stream beycnd Lake Itansex in he the rorth, the Mississippi is usually a turbulent half-mile width of treach- W erous currents by the time it passes New Orleans. Just now, however, it 4 is at the lowest stage in the@memory xt of most of the residents of the Delta. i Ordinarily the Mississippi rushes out into the Gulf of Mexico, some hun- t dred miles below New Orleans, and LH continues to spread its opaque, tam waters for some little distance beyond the bar before the green sea water cuts acros it abruptly. But so dis ¥ pirited is the river at present that it has retreated before the onslaught of 5 the Gulf water until the sea presents a vivid green at the very docks of New Orleans, Inhabitants stand on the levees and marvel at the spectacle. There are tales that salt-water fish have been caught right at the foot of Canal Street, and that porpoises, con- be sidered an. omen of good luck when wh they disport themselves around the bows of outgoing steamers as they reach the mouth of the river, are now playing about boats just leaving the wharves on their journey to the Gulf, Be that as it may, the Mississippi fn its new guise is the general topic of conversation in the Crescent City, which is accustomed to the vast river raging by in flood every Spring, seep- ing through the levees with only sand. and the sireets be. bags between ijt low Snow Leopard Rate Higher Than Lion While Indian Rhinoceros [a- mate of Bronx Zoo is Worth $8,000 The marketing of dangerous , and rave animals, deliv.rad alive and in He | good health to zoos and circuses iu k different countries, is a regular busi demand The largest dealer in wild beasts is a German firm which maintains farm for animals at Nashua, N.H. Twc other large dealers are located in Lon I don. Agents of thees companies maka Al their catches in Africa and Asia, take bi the captive animals to Europe and then seek a buyer. 14 is seldom that special orders are placed for Kings ol A the jungle; when needed they are bid 3 for in the open market. Occasionally, however, a zoo will give a standing or- der for certain rare species difficult to @ capture alive and bring back to civili- Ji} zation © fhe prices of animals are based on i their rarity, difficulty of capture and pif the expense of care and transportia- w UL tion. Lions bread easily in captivity, hs according to Dr. W. Reid Blair of the i Bronx Zoo, and are therefore not so Vil expensive as some other beasts. Large specimens were sold for about $700 at Hamburg recently. One of the most i expensive animals in thé Bronx Zoo 4 is an 'Indian rhinoceros, which cost vi ©8,000.- A pair of giraffes there cost Ww $15,000, the price having risen during ? the World War because the countries which produced them were in the zone of conflict, ' A An adult Indian elephant in the Bronx Zoo cost about $3,000; a 22-foot python, $300; a bluebird of paradjse, Wy $1,100; a hippopotamus, $2,000; "zeb- PY ras, from $1,000 to $2,000, and a goril- la, $4,000, Such animals as the musk. 43 ox, found only in the far Arctic re- & gions, and the snow leopard, found om HRN the heights of the Himalayas, are ex- pensive because of their scarcity and 4 the difficulty in bringing them safely LL to civilization, WY em di "My husband ig away so much of Kr the time I want a parrot for company. Does this one use rough languag "Lady, with this bird in the house wou'd never miss your husband." ee hah A newly-promoted officer gave a din- ner to his company. Addressing the men, ho said jovially: "Now fall upon the food without pity. Treat it as if it were the enemy." At the end of the dinner he observed a sergeant sneak- jung away with two bottles of wine. "What are you doing?" he asked. "Ob- serving orders," was the reply. "When you don't kill the enemy you take hir prisoner." Dibbs was in-earnest conversation with his neighbor. "Do you really be- lieve 2 there is something which tan tell whether a man is lying or not?" he asked. "Know it for certain,' old man," returned his neighbor, a shade nervously. "That's interesting," Dibbg continued. you Ravn geen ona of the instruments?" "Seed one,' mi mured the other hollowly, "I married Yr one!" 5 ---- gps "Give me a start!" begged the aue- $ tloneer. "I have here a genuine Queen Anne sideboard, the only piece of its kind known to the world. Give me a start!" "Fourpence!™ sald someone obligingly. The auct'cneor nearly fell from the rostrum. "I asked for a start," he sald contempiuously. "Well, you got it, didn't you?" "