Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-12
LUNCH BOX VS.. DINNER PAUL.

LUNCH BOx VS.. DINNER PAIL"
Nowadays school children-if they
ara permitted by the jaai,or and 9th
ers in brief authority. 70 eat within the
sacred precincts OF The school house
carry lunch in lunch boxes. When YOU
and were school boys more than
Twenty Years Ago Dear Tom" we
took our dinners" in a dinner pail
-has Varied somewhat with the size of
The families and me number old
enough 10 go 70 school.
The Department, Of the Interior has
apsly issued bulletin on the Meals
( Of School Children" Il gives formulas
which should pc Of great value TO the
hurried mother putting up lunches
with one hand while she combs Mary's
hair nxes Polly's supporters and
washes Biliy's neck and ears with the
other. Following the rules laid down
By one formula the lunch box must
| contain scientific preparation graded
weight for age on the daily allowance
for adults Of lis grams Of proteins, 5s
grams OF fat and 500 grams of car
bohydrates. with total fuel value of
1865 calories. The other calls for l25
grams Of proteins, 125 grams of tat and
$50 grams of carbohydrates, with
fuel value OF $500 Galleries. And
upon the heels of the formulate follows
this rule: al no time should the food
between meals be of a character 10
tempt the child TO eat unless he is
hungry"
What are We coming to in govern
ment? Is the maternaltstic TO be piled
on the paternalistic like Ossa upon
Pelion? Why. man alive, in the good
old days of the dinner pail long be-
! fore lunch and formulas and Galleries
our interiors regulated themselves
without federal interference. We knew
when We were hungry and we knew
where TO find the stuff wherewith we
might be filled and satisfied.
! An old fashioned family dinner pail
was big enough to milk fresh Hol-
stein cow in, and it was filed every
morning and emptied by 1907 every
day, not counting perhaps the hunk of
bread that hit "wishbone" Crary in the
back Of the neck on the road home.
When mother filed it she consulted no
formulas. She took the long butcher
knife and cut into slices loaf that
| had been baked in a ten quart pan.
She spread them with golden butter in
which fingered the perfumed breath
of the cows at milking time and the
favor of the upland blue grass and
the spring branch. On each she spread
a generous troWeling of apple butter
or jam or such "spreadins" that were
most favored and closed the fakv,
tween some of them lay a slice of the
ham that father used to cure, cooked
like mother used to cook it. A piece
Of cake for each child, a luscious.
juicy, generous wedge of pie with a
melting crust and filing that made the
sense Of smell joy and taste a ravish-
Tent, pie an inch thick, pie such as
the formula makers never dreamed of.
Such vacancy as remained was filled
with apples, willow twigs, pippins,
ramboes, bellflowers and late in Feb
Tuary romantics mellowed by months
Of meditation in the bins and changed
by age from autumnal hardness of
heart. Heavy? Sure it was heavy. Re-
member how you used to quarrel over
whose turn it was to carry it?
Nine O'Clock. Bible reading from the
''testaments" Singing; o, some of the
old songs, "a Thousand Years My Owr
Columbia" I'VE Shall Meet But We
Shall Miss Him." or Johnny, Johnny
Johnny, O. Well, Johnny whatd'.
ye Call Him." Itch Kan Spell, on a fife
and drum" and things First Reader ur
70 the "Fift," A "class in Arithmetics.'
Would it never be "recess?" "Atten.
ton. Dismissed for recess" A rush 70,
the entry" A struggle over in the cor
ner where the dinner pals sat. Gin.
me one Of them apples" Say 70,
darned haws how many are ye tryin
TO take? Jim llain't had none yet" ST,
!, big bites a chank and swallow
. pitch" pitch" Batter" First Base
as the promotion" game set itself ant
part Of the contents of the dinner PAL
had gone whence no dinner ever come
. back except-but that's another story
Noon came at last Hands savag,