ABSTRACT
In connection with the exercises of practical life, it may be fitting to consider the matter of refection. In order to protect the child's development, especially in neighbourhoods where standards of child hygiene are not yet prevalent in the home, it would be well if a large part at least of the child's diet could be entrusted to the school. It is well known to-day that the diet must be adapted to the physical nature of the child; and as the medicine of children is not the medicine of adults in reduced doses, so the diet must not be that of the adult in lesser quantitative proportions. The diet of little children must be rich in fats and sugar: the first for reserve matter and the second for plastic tissue. All meats are not adapted to children, and even their preparation must differ according to the age of the child.
