I0I2 The Cornell Reading-Courses 



Dietary from i8th to 24th month 

 First meal. 6-7 a. m. 



Warm milk with lightly buttered bread 



or 

 Cereal with thin cream, glass of warm milk 



or 

 Lightly cooked egg, lightly buttered bread, glass of warm milk. 

 Second meal. 10 a. m. 



Glass of milk with slice of bread. 

 Third meal. 1-2 p. m. 



Mashed potato with dish gravy, bread and milk, very small serving 

 baked apple or prune pulp 



or 

 Lightly cooked egg, bread and milk, small serving baked apple or prune 



or 

 Mashed spinach, carrots, or similar vegetable, bread and milk, small 

 serving very simple junket or rice pudding or similar simple dessert. 

 Fourth meal. Midway between meals. 



Tablespoonful orange juice or scraped apple. 

 Fifth meal. 5-6 p. m. 

 Bread and milk 



or 

 Milk toast. 



Although the child may be at the family table from about the third 

 year, it should not be allowed the freedom of the family dietary. It is 

 far better for the child to learn that certain foods are not for its con- 

 sumption, and that they are actually as remote from its scheme of things 

 as the moon. There is no better lesson in self-control or temperance than 

 the one that may be taught in this simple way. 



Dietary for third year 

 First meal. 7-8 a. m. 



Cereal with cream, milk to drink 



or 

 Lightly cooked egg with toast and milk. 

 Second meal. lo-ii a. m. 



Bread and milk. 

 Third meal. 2 p. m. 

 Lightly cooked egg, buttered baked potato, bread, milk, stewed fruit 



or 

 Broiled scraped beef, mashed vegetables as spinach, puree of peas, or 



