other varieties which may be sucked.

All soft candies, such as chocolate creams, bon-bons, patties, etc.,
are to be avoided. Hard candies, taken along with the desserts at meal
time, in no wise injure the normal stomach of the healthy child.

The other members of the family should set a correct example by
sucking the hard candies rather than chewing them; for if the hard
candies are allowed to dissolve slowly in the mouth they produce a
weak solution of sugar, which does not interfere with digestion as do
the strong and concentrated sugar solutions which result from chewing
chocolate creams, bon-bons, etc.

Candy, cookies, sandwiches, or bits of cake should never be allowed
between the meals.

EATING BETWEEN MEALS

Children who do not eat well at the breakfast table, if given a
"piece" at 10 A. M., will not be ready for the 12 o'clock meal; and
then another "piece" at 2 P. M. interferes with the normal appetite at
6 P. M. Digestion is disturbed, the nervous system irritated, and a
"puny child" is often the result.

Bring the three-or-four-year-old to a well-selected breakfast some
time between 7 and 8 A. M. Then nothing--absolutely nothing--but water
must pass the lips between that breakfast hour and the 12 o'clock
meal, which should be a good one. Then the interval until 5 or 6 P. M.
is passed in the same manner. At the evening meal the appetite is
again whetted: and a good appetite always means good gastric juice to
digest the meal. And so, good mother, guard carefully the interval
between meals if you would have good digestion and good health for the
little folks.

DAILY FOOD REQUIREMENT

The following table, taken from _The Science of Living_,[B] shows the
minimum of calories or food units required by boys from five to
fourteen years of age and girls from five to twelve:

BOYS

Skin Daily
Age Height in Weight in Surface in Calories or
Years Inches Pounds Sq. Ft. Food Units

5 41.57 41.09 7.9 816.2
6 43.75 45.17 8.3 855.9
7 45.74 49.07 8.8 912.4
8 47.76 53.92 9.4 981.1
9 49.69 59.23 9.9 1043.7
10 51.58 65.30 10.5 1117.5
11 53.33 70.18 11.0 1178.2
12 55.11 76.92 11.6 1254.8
13 57.21 84.8