To two quarts of warm water add one teaspoonful of sodium carbonate (washing soda). Wet the hair with this solution and then apply Castile soap and rub the head thoroughly about ten minutes. Wash the soap out of the hair with repeated washings of clear warm water. Dry the hair thoroughly. Nits: If the head is shampooed regularly each week as above described, it will cure and prevent the condition of "nits." DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CITY OF NEW YORK DIET FOR CHILD FROM 12TH TO 18TH MONTH FIRST MEAL--ON RISING. (1) 1 to 2 ounces juice of a sweet orange or Pulp of 6 stewed prunes or 1 ounce pineapple juice. (2) 8 ounces milk with either zwieback, or toasted biscuits or stale toasted bread. Note: Fruit must be given either ½ hour before or ½ hour after milk. SECOND MEAL--DURING FORENOON. Milk alone or with zwieback. NOON MEAL. (1) 6 ounces soup or 3 ounces beef juice. Note: Soup may be made of chicken, beef or mutton. (2) Stale bread may be added to the above. FOURTH MEAL--AFTERNOON. Milk or toasted bread and milk. EVENING MEAL. (1) 4 ounces thick gruel mixed with 4 ounces top half milk. Taken with zwieback. Note: Gruel may be made of oatmeal, farina, barley, hominy, wheatena, or rice. (2) Apple sauce or Prune jelly. Total milk in 24 hours, 1 to 1¼ quarts. Note: 8 ounces is equal to a half pint. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CITY OF NEW YORK DIET FOR CHILD FROM 18TH TO 24TH MONTH BREAKFAST. (1) Juice of one sweet orange or Pulp of six stewed prunes or Pineapple juice (fresh or bottled) 1 ounce. (2) A cereal such as cream of wheat, oatmeal, farina, or hominy preparations with top milk (top 16 ounces) sweetened or salted. A glass of milk, bread and butter. Note: If constipated give the fruit ½ hour before breakfast with water; if not, they may be given during the forenoon. Raw fruit juice must be given either ½ hour before or ½ hour after milk. FORENOON. A glass of milk with two toasted biscuits or zwieback or graham crackers. DINNER. (1) Broth or soup made of beef, mutton, or chicken, and thickened with peas, farina, sago or rice or Beef juice with stale bread crumbs; or clear vegetable soup with yolk of egg or Egg soft boiled, with bread crumbs, or the egg poached, with a glass of milk. (2) Dessert: apple sauce, prune pulp, with stale lady-fingers or graham wafers or Plain puddings: rice, bread, tapioca, blanc-mange, junket or baked custard. SUPPER. Glass of milk, warm or cold; zwieback and custard or stewed fruit. Total milk in 24 hours, 1½ quarts. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CITY OF NEW YORK DIET FOR CHILD FROM TWO TO THREE YEARS BREAKFAST. (1) Juice of 1 sweet orange or Pulp of 6 stewed prunes or 1 ounce pineapple juice (fresh or bottled) or Apple sauce. (2) A cereal such as oatmeal, farina, cream of wheat, hominy or rice, slightly sweetened or salted as preferred, with the addition of top milk (top 16 ounces) or A soft boiled or poached egg with stale bread or toast. (3) A glass of milk.