10 a. m. The same as at 6 a. m.
2 p. m. Chicken broth with rice or stale bread crumbs, six ounces; or a light boiled egg mixed with stale bread crumbs; or beef juice, three ounces. Milk and gruel same as at 6 a. m., but four ounces only.
6 p. m. Two tablespoonfuls of cereal jelly in eight ounces of milk; a piece of stale bread and butter. (The jelly is made by cooking the cereal for three hours the day before it is wanted; it should then be strained through a colander; oatmeal, barley, or wheat may be used.)
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 |