. The Ontario public school hygiene . d, will, as a rule,have the best chance to get on in the world ; whereas,poorly fed, ill clad, and poorly housed children canhardly ever hope to be more than hewers of wood anddrawers of water for others. Poorly fed children arethose who get too little milk, too few eggs, and toolittle butter and meat, because these kinds of food costmuch more money than vegetable foods do. Poor people cannot afford to buy high-priced foods,and must therefore content themselves with feedingtheir children upon bread and starchy vegetables, andsometimes they cannot buy enoug
. The Ontario public school hygiene . d, will, as a rule,have the best chance to get on in the world ; whereas,poorly fed, ill clad, and poorly housed children canhardly ever hope to be more than hewers of wood anddrawers of water for others. Poorly fed children arethose who get too little milk, too few eggs, and toolittle butter and meat, because these kinds of food costmuch more money than vegetable foods do. Poor people cannot afford to buy high-priced foods,and must therefore content themselves with feedingtheir children upon bread and starchy vegetables, andsometimes they cannot buy enough even of happens to such children ? Suppose a mother can afford to feed her childrenonly on bread and potatoes. Tiiey cannot get enoughnourishment out of these foodstuffs. Large quantities 94 PUBLIC SCHOOL HYGIENE may be eaten and yet the children will be hungry. Thefoodstuffs do not contain enough curdy matter for theblood, and, without the mothers knowing it, she isactually starving her children. Of course, the children. FiQURB 36.—Three cluluren of the same age. The diQerence in size is not due todifference in diet. are getting all the vegetable food that they can eat, butthe trouble is that there is not enough nourishment inthis kind of food to make children grow strong andhealthy. Again, there are parents who do not know how tofeed their children. They think that so long as thereis plenty to eat, their children are being well providedfor; whereas a great deal of harm may be done to is just as important to have the right kind of food as DIET 95 it is to have plenty of it; because, if it is not of theright kind, it will not have the proper substances in it orit will not digest properly, and the blood will not beable to get enough nourishment out of it. Expensive pies, puddings, cakes, jam, and confectionerymay contain very little more nourishment than breadand potatoes. The whole question is not one of costmerely ; it is one of selection as well. In fac
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