12 or 1 P.M. DINNER: An egg; potato; one other vegetable; bread; fruit juices or scraped fruit. The egg may be coddled, boiled, shirred, or poached. Potatoes may be baked, boiled, or mashed; preferably baked. Spinach, carrots, peas, string beans, asparagus tips, all cooked soft and mashed fine, may be used. Once or twice a week soups may be substituted for the egg, thickened with peas, beans, farina, sago, rice, or vegetables. For dessert, apple sauce, baked apple, prune pulp, or cooked fruit. 5 or 6 P.M. SUPPER: Eight ounces of undiluted milk from the cup, bread, toast or zwieback, Graham or arrowroot crackers. 10 P.M. (If desired) Eight ounces of undiluted milk. EIGHTEEN MONTHS TO THREE YEARS 7 or 8 A.M. BREAKFAST: Cereal; egg; stale bread or toast; dry bacon. 12 to 1 P.M. DINNER: Meat; potatoes; one vegetable; dessert. A small quantity of meat, such as scraped beef, lamb chop, roast beef, roast lamb, Hamburger steak, all cooked rare and cut fine. The roast may be hot or cold. Chicken, boiled, fricasseed, or roasted, may be given. Occasionally soups as described above may be given instead of meat, but they do not take the place of meat. Vegetables, such as carrots, spinach, green peas, string beans, squash, and macaroni. The dessert may be of apple sauce, baked apple, prune pulp, stale lady fingers, Graham or arrowroot crackers, rice, bread, tapioca or blanc-mange pudding, baked custard, junket, or rice with hot milk. 5 to 6 P.M. SUPPER: Stale bread or toast, unsweetened crackers; milk; fruit, raw or cooked. Clear broth or cereal may be given occasionally instead of the milk. This diet list will meet the needs of normal, healthy babies only. It is not intended as a guide to the mother of the extremely delicate baby, nor will it serve when the child has shown from birth a tendency to anemia, malnutrition, or chronic digestive disturbances, like constipation or diarrhea. Such cases are individual or abnormal, and require medical attention. No general diet will serve for such babies, who should be under the care of a child-specialist. CHAPTER VIII CLEANLINESS AND HEALTH HOW TO GIVE THE BABY’S BATH—CARE OF THE VARIOUS ORGANS—THRUSH AND ITS TREATMENT—SPECIAL BATHS FOR DELICATE CHILDREN—HABITS OF CLEANLINESS