The evening times., 1896-10-20
SCHOOL BOX LUNCHEONS.
flint to Mothers How Boys Should
Be Cared For.
BY EMILY FORD.

Now that tle long vacation is over aMi
the children, great and small, are ilocRing
back to school and college, the matter
OF providing an appe,izing and nouflsh-
lug luncheon, that may be stored away
in small compass, is worthy OF cdfelui
consid GRAFTON. The difference betwceh
"a dry. unsightly, hurrietlly put together
midday bite of crumbly bread ana care
Iessly cut meat and the dainty lunch
that takes no longer time in putting to-
eetber often makes just the difference
betw a well-nourisbed growing lad or
lassie and the tired, spiritless looking
child. with only a hallhearted interest
even in play.
4 lunch box is generally much pre-
ferred by children TO the oid-time basket,
unless the latter be of box shape, so that
it NAV be made into Il neat, flat PACK age.
cardboard box does excellently, as il
can bc often renewed, and should be deep
enough to bold Jelly tunibler with
cover, aud of sufficient size to contain
generous supply OF sandwiches and some
nice tilbit in the way of finish Off.
AS 10 this latter dainty, so dear to
schoulboy's or schoolgirls heart. there is
nothing that SO fits into the important
place us u3l
il made of flakey, cot over-rich pastry
is wholesome as well as tootbsume. II
the family INDUCES in pastry once or twice
u week it is very little trouble to remein-
ber the school luncheon box when the
baking is going on, and patty pans for
small cakes should be at band at all
times of cake baking.
Now that the mother is refreshed after
her suu:mer outiugi is the very time to make
a reform in this direction and she should
begin 10y laying in, at tue cost OF rev
sents stock of white paper. such as
bakers wrap their goodies in, this will
keep tue bread and cake from drying and
does not leave tue fiat, close taste that
invariably clings to food fOlded in nap
kin, also. some small rringcd doylies- take
ur less room. are less expensive. and should
b. ready instead of tue ordinary cumber-
some table napkin.
Look OH this picture AND then On that,
you children of larger growth, whom
1t seems only yesterday were yourselves
thrilled by the small delights Of childhood.
Twelve O'Clock comes and MadSe hurries
for iicr lunch box. There was chicken for
dinner at home last night and nice bit
had been put one side to help make the
sandwiches the next morning. 1t is only
a wee m0rsel, nobody missed IL. but moth
ing ever tasted better to the child with
her appetite sharpened by her steady morn
ing's work. When the apples were baked
for luncheon the day before, puffy. snowy
white one was popped into jelly glass,
q little sugar sprinkIed over it and put away
for her Homemade cookies were her elder
sisters specially and there were four OF
these, they and the sandwiches wrapped
in white paper and fringed napkin spread
lightly over an, simply this and nothing
more. and yet it was a luncheon fit for a
princess, or rather for an American school
girl.
Ruth goes listlessIy after her basket,
declaring that she does not want any lunch;
however, She opens it and out tumbles a
small white bundle, which upon being open
ed is found to contain wads of bread with
dabs of butter, some cllngiDg to the bread,
but most of il going it alone,' and look
ing like thin bits of cheese. The chicken in
Madee's sandwich had been nicely chop
ped or ground, but here instead are thick
slices of hard-looking ham. A raw apple
and a slice of dry cake completes the
menu. The cost of each luncheon is the
same, but one is scarcely touched and
nearly all goes to waste, while the other
has not so much as crumb left to tell the
toothsome tale.
There should always be two jelly glasses
for the school luncheon, and if one is put on
the table at the midday meal of the family
there will always be little fruit to be
slipped into it. A bit of white OF brown
paper should be fitted In the lid to prevent
'tinpy" taste aud also to make it fit
tighter. 1t should only, however, be al
lowed to remain ON loosely over night to
avoid anything like "a eloseness.