Ladies Column.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2039, 1 August 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

Ladies Column.

Some f jjiio think it perfectly n^ht that children rho. U bo rnxdi to cat everything that n prl b for-* (Ikt:j ; but in carrying out tills t-in^i'Lu 1 ihooxv too often the gravest in-ju-y re3".lt<3. An oniinpßt oity cl'r^ymnn to" '1 me the o^ner day that the mero &i^ht of livci c -.oltrci ia any form r»ade him ill. Wlvu q silo ti liiilc felloe; hi i PU.m father, who wi 1 vv <'f the ncii that would pa mil; no " nou-s^n-p," &s he expressed it, with ivpard to chiichca'c liken or dislikes a& far aa food waa ooEcerntd, insisting that they Bhould not fc\Hi'on«e dti3' taste or choice iv the matter, re(julrod him to efir porno liver whioh had heen put on his plate. There was something about cbc partioular piece of liver that set the child aj,'ainpt it, but he was forced to swallow the repulnive mornel, and ever fainoe hia stomach ha« rebelled even at the thought of the gross piec° of tyranny which was practised upon him. It is a sound rule for all of us that \vich respect to food our likes find dislikes aro the best guide as to what is good for us, and it is safe to eat upon the plan that whatevvr we relish will prove on the average harmless and wholesome, and whatever produces d:pRU9t will prove, as a general thing, indigestible. A recent writer on this point has fully Bxprcbsed my opinion in Baying that " nothing can be more wrong than to make children e&t fat, for cxamplo, when they don't want it. A healthy child likes fat and eat 1 ) as much of it as he oan. If he shows signs of dt^nsi at fat that proves him to bo of a bilious temperament, and he ought never to bo forced to cat it against his will. A good many of us have disordered digestion in afterlife tfimply beoauso wa were oompalled to eat rich focd in childhood which we felt instinctively was unsuitable to us."