10 P. M. Same as at 6 A. M. About the fifteenth month the cereals may be given much thicker and fed with a spoon. The child can at this time take a number of various fruit juices. Orange juice is the best. Carefully strained juice of ripe peaches, strawberries, raspberries, may be given in reasonable amounts, one or two tablespoonfuls, once daily. Custard, cornstarch, plain rice pudding, junket, wheatena, cornmeal, hominy, oatmeal, zwieback, bran biscuit, each with butter, may be added in reasonable quantities between the eighteenth and twenty-fourth months. When cereals are given they should be thoroughly cooked, usually for three hours, and strained. When apple sauce is given to a child about the second year it should contain very little sugar and baked apples should be fed without cream. Water must be given to the child between meals especially during the summer. It should be boiled and cooled kept in a cool place. The following schedule for a child about the third year constitutes a good average diet for a healthy child: TABLE OF STANDARDS (As Adopted and Copyrighted by the American Medical Society) PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT [Transcriber's Note: The ages were difficult to read and may not all be correct.] Age in Months Weight Height Circumference of head Circumference of chest Circumference of abdomen Lat. Diameter of chest Chest front to back Length of arm Length of leg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- lbs. in. in. in. in. in. in. in. in. 6 17 27 17-1/2 17-1/2 17-1/2 5 4-1/2 10 10 9 19 28 18 18 18 5 4-1/2 11 11 12 20 29 18-1/2 18-1/2 18-1/2 5 4-3/4 12 12-1/2 16 23 30 18-1/2 18-1/2 18-1/2 5-1/2 5 12-1/2 13-1/2 21 24 31 18-1/2 19-1/2 19-1/4 6 5 14 15 24 25 32 19 20 19-1/2 6 5 14-1/2 15-1/2 28 27 33-1/2 19 20 19-1/2 6 5 14-3/4 15-3/4 32 29 35 19-1/2 20-1/2 19-1/2 6-1/4 5-1/2 14-3/4 15-3/4 36 32 36-1/2 20 21 20 6-1/4 5-1/2 15 16-1/2 =============================================================================== MENTAL DEVELOPMENT Attention, facial expression, irritability and disposition should be considered. Six Months Child sits unsupported for a few minutes.... Balances head.... Eye follows a bright object.... Looks in direction of an unexpected sound.... Child seizes an object and holds it.... Twelve Months