The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-10-17
Attempts to Make Them
From Left Overs" Means
Hardship for Children.
ONE WOMAN TELLS
HOW SHE DOES 1T
Prepares Dainty Meals, But Ar
ranges for Them Each Time on
the Night Before.

To mention lunch basket TO the
average hOuselCeepeT is to cause Eer
meek and lowly spirit 70 turn at once
70 rebellion. heard a very capable
woman say the other day that she
had rather order meals for her house
hold for a week than prepare lunches
for her three children for one day.
Then she admitted that the reason for
this was probably that she expected TO
make the lunches from left-overs, from
the crumbs that fell from the table, as
it were, and that always when at the
last moment she went to look for these
crumbs she found them conspicuous by
their absence.
The trouble with most lunches which
are prepared IN a hurry IS that they are
messy. When the basket or the Dox
which contains them Is opened It is al
ways found that the Jelly had run over
on the ham. the sandwiches are mashed
and the eggs untidy. Altogether it is
so unappetizing It looks that only
hungry child could eat it.
Husband Takes Lunch.
I know a houselCeeper whose husband,
a lawyer, is so busy during the day that
very often he has not a moment TO
snatch for midday refreshment.
She, excellent housekeeper and devoted
wife that she is, makes up a lunch for
him accordingly, which he carries down
town in the leather case in which ne Is
supposed to have briefs. And always
this is a dainty luncheon. 1t Is ar
ranged for the night before. and pre-
pared in a few moments in the morning.
The piece de resistance consists OF
.kg5r,
lutte inability TO get away from them,
but they are dainty sandwiches. If ham
is used as the filling. it is ground and
mixed with mayonnaise and paprika ard
a little chopped olive or pickle or celery
into a savory hlling- Sometimes chop
ped celery and nuts mixed with mayon-
naise are used Tor the sandwiches,
sometimes beef chopped and highly sea-
soned, and sometimes Swiss cheese with
mustard. In every case the sandwich IS
wrapped neatly in oiled paper
It is a curious thing 10 the OnlOoker
why the hOusekeeper so often considers
this matter of wrapping her sandwiches
a hardship, when the paper is chear IN
price and the wrapping takes so short a
time. And the hOusekeeper herself
can't explain her reluctance TO under
take this detail, except 70 argue that Is
is troublesome, as II everything worth
while weren't troublesome.
o0ldu III pei DUA
Sometimes my friend the lawyer finds
a little pasteboard ice cream box nned
with salad from dinner the cay before in
his lunch. Sometimes he finds a small
handful Of English walnut meats. or
some stuffed dates. also wrapped in
oiled paper. Always he finds an apple,
and if he gives 1t 20 the office boy his
frau IS none the wiser, but rests in the
delightful consciousness that she has
done her DUTY. DeviIed eggs are, of
course, che OF his standbys.
AS a general thing the fewer sweets
the.e are In the lunch basket the better
One comparatively harmless one which
many children CT my acquaintance like
IS made as follows: Take the long,
salted crackers sold at the grocer ) I'M
der the name banquet waters, and
spread them with a meringue made Of
the WniIeS Of eggs and sugar TO which
have been added some chopped peanuts.
Put the crackers spread with this mix
ture into he oven 10 brown lightly and
wrap them in paper also before they so
into the lunch basket
Good for Children.
A good sandwich filing. and one
which children like, consists of figs and
nuts cut fine. Another is made o.
canned salmon and hard-bOiled eggs.
carefully seasoned; another is made up
OF cold cOrned beef and green peppers
minced. aEI yet another o. rhinly sl...I
bananas spread with IayVnngise.
One thing IS perfectly certain ana
that ie tEat IN appsIzluS ana nutritious
school lunch cannot be evolved without
some preparation any more than can a
course dinner, and the mothers who let
their brood 90 of day after day with
bread cOveTe. with jan for their sole
midday Tefreshmeut are laying up for
those unfortunate youngsters nne cases
Of Indigestion, which later on will turn
their cheeks yellow and make their eyes
duu. LECNORE CALVERT.