At the zoo here in San Antonio there are signs warning visitors not to feed the animals. The signs read as follows: "All birds and animals are scientifically fed the correct foods--in proper quantities to insure best physical condition." "The feeding of tid-bits and wrong kinds of food by the public is very harmful--and represents a cruel practice--which the Zoological Board cannot allow."

In this same city, as in all other cities, there are thousands of children who are fed haphazardly, unscientifically and inadequately. The children are sickly, undeveloped, undernourished and deprived of many of the joys of life.

Everywhere one goes he sees children eating cookies, candies, crackers, ice cream and other worthless things. "With hands full of cookies and pockets full of peanuts" they gorge and stuff, filling their little bodies with these acid-forming foods and robbing their tissues of their precious alkaline elements. Children are frequently made into a veritable dumping ground for all the various patented foods, emulsions, and even drugs that clever advertisers offer to the public and to physicians.

Parents often feel sorry for their children when they see them deprived of certain foods, but they are wasting their sympathies. Such sympathies are tantamount to wishing for them a continuance of disease. "When parents are intelligent enough to know their duty to their children," says Dr. Tilden, "they will not feel sorry for them because they are not eating in a way to make them sick." Too many parents are ruled by their emotions and sentiments and not by knowledge and reason. Give children those foods that are good for them and do not cultivate in them an appetite for harmful foods.

If you desire to bring up your child without the need of a doctor, with perfect digestion, freedom from disease, good teeth, a splendid body and alert mind, follow the advice given herein and keep away from sugars, refined starches and all processed foods. If you are fond of adding to the incomes of physicians and also of seeing your children suffer and die, follow the "good old fashioned way" that is the vogue all around you.