HEARTH AND HOME.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9736, 31 December 1909, Page 4

HEARTH AND HOME.

THE DOMESTIC CIRCLE.

but it is a fact nevertheless. The absence of thpucht and care and of knowledge relatir>"; to children is due to the fact that the child as such has apparently no intrinsic value in dollars and ce^te. whereas the young of the lower mmals are no small part of their owner's material possessions. EVERY DAY A DAY OF GROWTH. Success, in the management of children, nutritionally and otherwise, means daily attention to detail.' Feeding the child properly one or two months ■ out of -the year is of little value. He should be ted properly every day in the year, for under normal conrditions every day is a day of growth. Another factor having a deterrent influence upon the development of children is their unfavourable start during the/ first year'. Unfortunately many; mothers cannot supply to. the infant the. nourishment .to which he is entitled, and this brinss us to the matter of substitute feeding, frausht with its perplexities and uncertainties v in the mo9t competent hands, and with its dangers aid disasters. with the incompetent and inefficient. It is sufficient to remark here that Nature has provided for the baby a food which con-, tains "tho nutritional elements, fat, sugar, and proteid. , in fairlv definite proportions and in peculiar , forms. . ADAPT THE FOOD TO HUMAN '■"._. needs: Success in substitute feeding depends upon our ability to supply in suitable forms, and the child's ability to assimilate, a foc>i containing approximately the qualities of the nutritive elements found in human milk. An exact reproduction of mother's milk by the use of cows' milk or other food is, of course, impossible. We'oin imitate it, however, with sufficient ' accuracy to make it an acceptable and sufficient food for m66t children who are deprived of tfye breast. . " - Memo by " Hy^geia " : — From one end of ihe dominion to the other mothers who oannbt feed their babies naturally are - imitating Nature as closely as possible by using humanised milk — in other' words, they are doing just .what s Dr Kerley advises when he says that.Nve should supply "a food containing approximately the qualities of the nutritive elements found in human milk." Unmodified or merely diluted cow's milk is p^Kof the question, ' Cow's milk and cane-sugar 'are highly objectionable, while condensed milk 'and patent - foods carrapt be too strongly condemned. J