The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-06-01

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with his family and that one had
brought the custom from GONZALES
cent school in New Jersey whore he
had been a resident for a year.
Miss Hunt thinks that school
lunch so conducted that children
themselves pay for the food while the
school board pays for the educational
part, for all that is necessary for
training and for the education that is
given by tasteful surroundings, is the
most effective way of distributing re-
lief in case of necessity
Miss Hunt thinks that the Ameri-
can attitude toward this subject of
serving school meals may have to un-
dergo change. Our present attitude
of objection to having money taken
from the public treasury for this pur-
pose indicates that we have ''incor-
rect ideas about food"
IF food says Miss Hunt, were
looked upon as vitality connected with
health and efficiency instead of as a
means of gratifying the palate we
should probabaly think more about
the desirability of imparting mental
and physical vigor to the next genera
ton and much less about the posi-
bility of pauperizing fathers and
mothers by the process"
| The ideal school meal as Miss Hunt
i sees it would be, both as to quality of
food and the manner of serving,
somewhere between the ordinary
meal of the poor and the meal of
those who are free to yield themselves
to luxury
ito think of public school meals as a
means Of instructing the children of
the poor in table manners; they
might. however, be quite as valuable
in accustoming the children of the
rich to rational simplicity
While the school luncheon for
young pupils is still in the experiment
tai stage Miss Hunt says that lunch
cen for high school pupils may now
be considered to have passed that
point and to have become an estab-
lished part of high school training.
1t is fact, however, that the per-
! centage of obviously underfed chill
dren decreases very rapidly in pass
ing from the lower to the higher
grades.
Miss Hunt would give child from
six to nine years dietary made up
daily of fifty grams of protein, sew
enty-five grams of fat and It's grams
of carbohydrates. Since good many
anxious mothers may not have a
gram scale in the kitchen Miss Hunts
detailed menu for the day as con-
tanned in Uncle Sans official paper is
given:
Breakfast:
Orange of medium size.
Cooked oatmeal, one-third cup.
Milk and cream mixed, one-halt
cup.
Toast, one slice.
Butter, one-half cubic inch.
Milk, to drink, one glass.
Dinner:
White fish, three ounces as pur,
chased, or one and a half ounces edi,
BILE portion.
Potato. one small
Celery cooked in milk, three.
eighths cuful.
Bread, one slice.
Butter, for bread and potato, one
cubic inch.
Rice pudding, one-half cupful.
| Supper: =
Egg.
Toast, one slice.
Butter. one-half cubic inch.
Milk, one glass.
: Prunes, three, cooked with one
half level tablespoon Of sugar.
Cookies.
Almost any boy, 1t is figured, ought
| to be able to draw about 1647 calor-
les out of that menu. But that diet
every day will get tiresome even fol
! the most hungry youth So here are
few of the hints to mothers that
Miss Hunt passes out through Uncle
J Sans paper:
L. Become acquainted with the APP.
proximate composition of some of the
very common foods
"2. Know in general way how
much protein material child of 8
given age requires.
SO. Exclude from the child's diet
all made dishes, rich sauces, saladf
and fried foods.
"A. Do not try to limit bread and
cereals, except when it takes sugar to
make them acceptable.
IS. Do not forget to give the child
fruit and vegetables every day.
IS. In charging the dietary from
time to time as the child grows, make
no experiments. Do not ask yourself
J WHY not give it?'l''--New York Sun.