Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 308, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1932 — Page 17

MAY 4, 1932

Teeth Need Best Care Possible la the United States last year \ more children were absent from ' school because of toothache than i from any other cause. Dental caries : or tooth decay, is the most preva- j lent of all known diseases. It spares no race, age, sex nor creed. It may strike some readers as strange to hear tooth decay called a disease. It is caused by a certain germ, just as measles, typhoid fever and “flu” are caused by their own specific bacteria, or germ. These germs which cause tooth decay are always present in the mouth and it is only necessary for them to find a suitable lodging place to begin their work of destruction. This lodging place usually is between the teeth or in the deep crevices and grooves on the chewing surface of the back teeth. Burrows in All Directions One of the strange things about tooth decay is that it only makes a j small opening in the outer covering of the tooth enamel, yet once inside the tooth it burrows out in all directions. making a funnel-shaped area with the point of the funnel always at the outer surface of the tooth. This is why we urge every one to go to the dentist twice a year for examination. If this is done, these cavities can be detected and filled when very small and this means less tooth structure lost, less pain and less expense. When your child is around 6 years old, just about the time he starts to school, his first permanent molars erupt. The chewing surfaces of these teeth have very deep grooves which afford a fine lodging place for the decay germs to start. Teeth Imperfectly United Frequently there is already a crack or defect in the bottom of these grooves when the tooth erupts. This is due to emperfect calcification or uniting of the tooth. By taking your child to your dentist he can detect these places and fill them before decay can gain a foothold. Loss of teeth practically ruins the mouth for we will have a shifting of the teeth which brings about abnormal occlusion, pyorrhea and a long list of other troubles. Mothers with younger children should know about the importance of the baby teeth. These little people are right at the age when they are doing most of their growing, and need well-chewed, nutritious food more than at any other period of their lives. A baby needs no teeth because he lives on milk alone, but from the time he changes over to solid food he needs teeth, and must have them. Now if we ignore and neglect these baby teeth, the child can not chew his food until the permanent teeth come.

Watch foe This Mistake The blame for this mistaken idea about baby teeth rests equally on the parent and the dentists. If you will take your child to your dentist and insist on these baby teeth being fixed properly, you will make an investment that will pay dividends in years to come. Early loss of the baby teeth causes another evil aside from the inability to chew the food. The jaws fall to develop pioperly and consequently when the permanent teeth do erupt they are crowded together and the child had mal-occlusion, or “crooked teeth,” and also a poorly formed jaw and face? Just a surely as a sewer emptying into the city’s water supply would carry infection and disease all over the city, an abcessed tooth draining into the blood stream sends infection and disease all over the body. You can not expect your child to be well, full of energy, gain in weight, and keep up his work at school with his blood stream full of germs from bad teeth. FLOATING~TOY IS - GOOD FOR BATH Toys that float will often divert the baby's attention and make him forget his objections to his daily bath. Force or harshness is worse than useless in this, as in other matters in the training of the baby. If a baby becomes unwilling to get into the tub, do not force him to do so for a day or two, but let him sit by the tub and play over the side of it with the water and soap and floating toys. 1

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Your Child Tempt Appetites of Your Children and They’ll Eat

BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON IT is all very well to suggest certain foods for children, but there is something to be said about the eating itself. The weary chant of the average mother is, “I give my children all the vegetables and things the book says, but I can’t make them eat. Mary won't drink milk. Tommy won't eat anything but pancakes, or pork and beans, and Sue just nibbles like a mouse.” Well, that is too bad; but not unusual. Yet there is something wrong. If those three children had

to get up at 6, walk two miles to school, come home and feed chickens, chop wood, even go out and hitch up old Maude and drive to the nearest village for a sack of flour. I am sure they would eat. Mary would drink her milk and be glad to get it. Thomas would be glad to devour his New England dinner and Sue

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would “pack her vittles” down like a thrasher. We might make an exception of Mary. It happens once in a mauve moon that children can not take their full quota of a quart and a half or a quart of milk a day. Don’t ask me why—such cases are rare. In that case, if a child really becomes ill on too much milk, try them on less. M M M r PHOMAS is more easily disposed of. He has a fixed appetite for his favorite food. Mere mental prejudice turns him against other wholesome things. Besides, he should worry. There are pancakes and thick beans all ready. His mother is afraid he won't eat, so she caters to him. We shall have to play Hawkshaw with Sue and follow her after school; a soda, a bag of caramels, some cake out of the pantry that no one knows about. She gets a quarter a week and between that quarter and her girl friends she is bootlegging secret delights. Caramels won’t hurt her, or sodas, or cake, either. But these things have their time and place, and that isn't an hour before meals. If Sue has a stomach that lies down and dies if anything of the sort goes into it, I am afraid we had better take away her quarter and lock up the pantry. Are the spinach and carrots and cabbage and tomatoes fixed up so that the children just take one look, one taste, are completely astonished and then gobble up the whole business and ask for more? Tempting an appetite is not outside the law. It is, on the other hand, perfectly legitimate and praiseworthy. Don't spoil spinach, throw some pepper and sail into it and set it down to a cold, sad funeral. Pep it up. Chop it very fine, make a nice cream sauce with a little onion juice in it, or a hard-boiled egg chopped up. Toss it around in the spinach

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Serve it piping hot. Don't boil it all day, by the way. Buy it young, boil it fifteen minutes. That's good rule for all leaf vegetables. ** n CARROTS! I hate them, but I eat them this way—mashed with butter, salt and pepper, and watercress around the dish. Your children may not like cress, but the idea is to dress it up. make it different. Grind carrots raw with cooked beets and beans or peas Make a regular gipsy salad. Color enters into eating. But above all, see that the children play outside enough to get hungry, or exercise in some way. Don’t let them get too tired to eat, however. They should be out in good weather from three to six hours a day, in a yard, not on the street all the time. Mealtime is not scold time, nag time, threat time, nor harangue time. Make it pleasant and jolly. One Menu for All Should B e Home Slogan Every busy mother’s slogan should be “One Menu for All,” according to the United States department of agriculture. Even dinner, the main meal of the family, can be adjusted easily to needs of the children if the menu consists of wholesome food simply prepared. Children of 2, 6 and 10 years can be fed from the same meal, for instance: Broiled meat balls, buttered string beans, baked potatoes, bread and butter, lettuce, milk and baked apple. The 2-year-old has small portions. To make eating easy, the baked potato and baked apple should be I removed from the skins and mashed, ' and the meat ball divided into small pieces. The mid-day meal for the young i child is usually slightly larger than the other meals. Serving the main protein dish for dinner makes the principal difference between dinner and supper. HEALTHY CRY IS LOUD AND LONG Many mothers often ask: “How can I tell why my baby is crying?” The answer is: A healthy cry is loud and strong, making the baby red in the face; an illness cry is whining and feeble. A hungry or thirsty cry is a hard steady scream. A sleepy cry is aggrieved, fretful, short cry with I closed eyes. Perfectly healthy babies, sleepy, will cry when put down because they like to be held and tended. — Teach Orderliness That children may learn to put away their cloth ;s and toys, the closets should be fitted especially with low shelves and low rods for j clothes hangers, where they may be reached easily.

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