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sliould be allowed full time to eat and be taught 

 to cliew their victuals well. They should be 

 taught to eat any thing that is common, so that 

 they may appear easy at table at all tim*es, and 

 make their friends so likewise. Frequent bath- 

 ing is of great service to yoifth; it invigorates 

 the constitution and gives a fine complexion. 

 The bath may be changed according to the sea- 

 son; it may be cold, tepid or salt. When the 

 cold bath is used, either fresh or salt, the skin 

 should be well rubbed with a coarse towel, as 

 well before they go into the bath, as after they 

 come out. When children are healthy liquid 

 food is as a general rule, better for them than 

 solid food, because it supplies more blood, and 

 this is needed to form and build ujd the solids, 

 but they should be allowed some of both 



Children should always take light, suppers 

 and light breakfasts. Their dinner should be of 

 more substantial food and taken freely. But 

 they should never be allowed to eat in haste, as 

 nothing aids the powers of digestion more than 

 the perfect mastication of food. 



