FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



HOME MAKING 



"NO, I DO NOT LIKE IT" ' 



Prepared by May E. Foley, 

 Nutrition Specialist 



How often we hear a child say, when 

 mother has served good wholesome food 

 to her family, "No, I do not like it." 

 Generally our food dislikes are merely 

 food prejudices which should be overcome. 

 Because the child must depend entirely 

 upon food for his body structure, it 

 naturally follows that the food habits 

 must be carefully supervised if he is to 

 possess the necessary vigor and resistance 

 to cope successfully with life's problems. 

 The formation of correct food habits 

 cannot be stressed too early in life. 

 Many mothers who are very careful about 

 the general habits of their children seem 

 to have an idea that the food problem 

 will take care of itself. It is no harder 

 to teach a food habit than any other. 



Even if it were not important for the 

 good health of the child that he learn to 

 like all wholesome foods, it would still be 

 worth while to have him develop a liking, 

 for them. The person who eats every- 

 thing fits into any situation, and is al- 

 ways a welcome guest on any occasion 

 where food is served. Stefansson at- 

 tributed his success as an explorer to the 

 fact that wherever he went he ate what- 

 ever his hosts liked, and became one of 

 them. 



It happens only rarely that a person 

 cannot eat a certain food. Perhaps the 

 most common example is the inability of 

 a few people to eat strawberries because 

 of digestive disturbances. 



It is well for the parents to find some- 

 thing intere.sting for table conversation 

 in place of discussing their likes and dis- 

 likes. If food that is placed on the table 

 is served to everyone, children will not 

 think they are supposed to have a pref- 

 erence. It is also a mistake for a mother 

 to discuss Mary's delicate appetite and 

 finicky ta.stes to a caller in the presence 

 of Mary. She then thinks she is ex- 

 pected to be overly fastidious and tries 

 to live up to her reputation. 



"This is all very well," we hear a 

 mother say, "but how can I get my child 

 to eat foods he does not like?" The 

 following suggestions may help: 



1. Have simple foods well prepared. 



2. Vary the way of preparing the 

 foods. 



3. Make each dish as attractive as 

 possible. 



4. Serve food in .small amounts. Often 

 the child will take a taste of a 

 .strange food but will not eat it in 

 large quantities. A child with a 

 small appetite is often discouraged 

 by having too much food placed be- 

 fore him, and refuses to eat any of 

 it. 



5. Do not consult the members of the 



HAIR TONIC 



Robert M. Ada?Hs, Cornell University 

 I hear that milk and garden greens 

 Have snappy things called vitamins 

 That give us health and strength and pep 



I And put the ginger in our step. 

 But what is this I also hear 

 From folks who ought to know. 

 That vitamins will help to make 



, Our hair and whiskers grow? ' 



I find my .Jove-like dome of thought 

 Of shade not quite bereft; 

 I'll u.se this happy hunch, and keep 

 What herbage I have left. 

 The razor makes its daily trip 

 Along my chin and jaws and lip 

 So by my wife it is not feared 

 That I .shall ever raise a beard 

 Or whiskers a la Bolshevik; 

 But oh ! I want my hair to .stick. 

 Upon my brain-pan flies would crawl 

 If I should sprout no hair at all 

 And those that lit upon my head 

 Would have to wear a non-skid tread 

 They'd slip and slither on my scalp 

 Like mountain climbers on an Alp. 

 To ward them off, my hair I'll keep 

 Though I chew lettuce in my sleep 

 To nourish bristles on my brow. 

 If milk and vegetables can clinch 

 The hatch upon our beans 

 So help me Pete 

 But I will eat 

 A lot of spinach greens. 



family about their food preferences. 

 The mother should know the need of 

 the family and .should see that they 

 are supplied. 



6. Each member of the family, includ- 

 ing the adults, should form the 

 habit of eating a portion of every- 

 thing placed before him. 



7. Serve the food in attractive dishes 

 and use diff'erent ones from time to 

 time. Oatmeal for breakfast for 

 the young child may be served in one 

 kind of dish, and cereal for lunch 

 may be served in a diff'erent shaped 

 di.sh, or one of an entirely different 

 color. 



8. Vary the way of preparing the food. 

 For instance, if the child is tired of 

 drinking milk, it may be slightly 

 seasoned with sugar and cocoa, hot 

 or cold, or in puddings, plain ice 

 cream, junket, and other di.shes. 

 Milk is milk regardless of the man- 

 ner in which it is served. 



9. The family should eat the food that 

 is prepared for that meal and not 

 expect to get something not on the 

 table. 



10. It is poor training for the child to 

 let him have some other food because 

 he thinks he doesn't like the one 

 sei-ved. 



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the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 

 Every woman has charm. All that she 

 needs to know is her good points and then 

 to emphasize them by simplicity and style 

 in clothing. In the home she must have 

 beauty by using the right color combina- 

 tions and by arranging furniture attrac- 

 tively. 



Dr. Carolyn Hedger of the Elizabeth 

 McCormick Memorial Fund of Chicago 

 spoke on the "Problem of the Adolescent," 

 the child from 12 to 24 years old. She 

 said "It is human nature for older people 

 to believe that the young folks are going 

 to pieces and for the youths to believe 

 the older people are stiff' and old- 

 fashioned. At the present time there are 

 new responsibilities and problems in the 

 raising of youth. The outstanding point 

 in the young people of today is their free- 

 dom from fear. This irritates older 

 people. They often fail to see the pos- 

 sibilities of the material. The flapper — 

 the woman of few clothes — presents a 

 problem. This freedom from clothes 

 gives women's bodies the best chance for 

 normal development that they have ever 

 had. We should try to see the flapper 

 as she is, not in what we think she is. 



The adolescent period is a terminal 

 period. It starts with the child of twelve 

 and ends with the matured individual 

 at twenty-five years of age. At the end of 

 the period physical development is com- 

 plete even to wisdom teeth. During this 

 period we build bodies for the long haul 

 of life. Science has extended human life 

 about twenty years on the average. The 

 woi-k of science is of little avail if youth 

 is wrecked during this adolescent period. 

 It is a period of rapid growth. Normally 

 youths are not lazy. Most all of their 

 strength is taken up in rapid growth. 

 If the youth is lazy it can usually be ex- 

 plained by infected tonsils, poor teeth, 

 poor feeding, not enough sleep, too much 

 culture, eye strain and social dissipation. 



A child of twelve should be in good 

 flesh as this reserve is needed for the 

 rapid growth which takes place after this 

 age. It is nearly impossible to grow 

 strong healthy individuals .starting with 

 .skinny youths of 12. The things needed 

 for normal physical development in this 

 period are plenty of fresh air both day 

 and night, lots of water, sunshine, good 

 wholesome food, time to play, happiness 

 and for the youths to become acquainted 

 with the fact that they have worth or 

 value. All of these things are needed 

 to take care of the drain on energy taken 

 by the rapid growth of this period, the 

 strain occasioned by our educational sys- 

 tem, social activities and athletic com- 

 petitions. When a child is growing 

 rapidly, he has poor control of his mus- 

 cles. The wise parent explains to the 



