Fruit For Children

The most natural diet f or the young, after the natural milk (liet, is fruit and whole meal bread, with milk and water for drink. The desire for this same mode of sustenance is often continued into after years, as if the resort to flesh were a forced and artificial feeding, which required long and persistent habit to establish its permanency as a part of the system of every day life. How 6trongly this preference taste for fruit over animal f ood prevails is shown by the simple f act of the retention of these foods in the mouth. Fruit is retained to be tasted and relished. Animal food, to use a common phrase, is bolted. There is a natural desire to retain the delicious fruit for full mastication; there is no such desire, except ín the trained gourmand, for the