A child should have his face and hands washed before and after each
meal. He should not be allowed to carry foodstuffs and candy about the
house, or touch carpets and furniture with sticky and greasy fingers. If
he requires food between meals, give him four or five meals per day, but
have him eat his food in the proper place.
The breeding of flies, mosquitoes and other disease carriers is greatly
favored by allowing children to eat at any and all times without
napkins, or special preservation of their dress, or without cleaning
their hands before and after eating, or before and after playing with
animals and pets.
The American child is given too much consideration at the table. There
is a great difference between the saying "I don't like a certain food"
and "I don't want it," because there are things which taste better.
To leave one's plate half full of foodstuffs and ask for, or accept,
other food is customary, but before the law of our Creator it is unclean
and disrespectful, wasteful and dangerous.
The physiological laws of our bodies are based on very economical plans:
nature utilizes everything and wastes nothing. Cooked foodstuffs,
whether they are wasted within our bodies by over-indulgence, or in the
garbage can, create decomposition and germs.