DR. W. C. WHEELER, health commissioner of Kansas City, declares that "to permit a child to drink tea or coffee or to eat too much cheap candy, cookies, and cakes, is a crime. When you feed your boys and girls," he says, "on that kind of trash, you are laying a foundation for a family of weaklings who may be afflicted by nervous disorders and diseases that may finally cause their death." One of the reasons, he declares, why many children are deficient in their school studies, is because they drink tea and coffee and eat too much sweet trash. Many cases have come before him where children are mentally deficient on account of the foods they have eaten. The serious responsibility of this he charges upon the parents. He says that tea and coffee are terribly injurious to the growing child. Parents under no condition should allow their children to partake of these beverages. "Do you wonder," he asks, "that the insane asylums are being filled with the products of parents' ignorance and folly?" Certainly these words are worth heeding.