The Alaska daily empire., 1914-12-05
SCHOOL GIRLS IN NEED
 or MORE NOURISHMENT

Every night ol the school year. l4- year old Gladys who is accounted the pretdest girl in her first year high school has finished her lessons by haltpasl nine. says Kendrick Scoheld, writer in g Washington City news paped. Her parents hage told her that to obtain enough sleep she must retire by 10 o'clock Yet Gladys is seldom in bed before eleven. The intervening hour is spent with curl papers flor curl papers. no matter what the beau' ty doctor may say are still popular with school misses-and certain harm less cosmetics, through the aid of which a good complexion and a fringe of fluffy curls are assured for the com- ing day.
 Finally Gladys retres. but her sleep is made uncomfortable by the little punches of halr which, twisted into hard knots about the curl papers. bore with neveueRding persistency into her scalp
 At haltpast seven Che fohowIngI morning Gladys mother calls her for breakfast She responds quickly enough, but the curl papers require attention; after their removal her hair must be dressed so that each paper induced ringlct lies in precisely tho proper place Then, too, there is @ bit of powder to be siited to just tho right proportions upon the end of her charmingly tip.tilted nose, to say nothing of her new redingote costume, 1 which must hang in perfect lines.
 of Without Bveakfast
 The result of all ol which ls that Gladys rushes into the breakfast room ! at halfpast aigAt gulps cup of eoi- l fee, takes three or four spoonflis of breakfast and doshes for the carg because school is twenty-dye minutes ride away, without allowing anything for delays on the transfer
 When she has prettily thanked the tall handsome sophomore who hasI risen to give her his seat she realizes with consternaton that she forgot to pack her lunch and that her father had started for his office before she could get any change from him. sho has just 10 cents in the combination ] vanity ease and coin purse which l dangles from her suede-gloYed wrist
 Which state of financial affairs means that Gladys having had an in- sufient breakfast will be hungry when noon time cones, but can anord only glass of milk and piece of French | pastry.
 The manncr n which Gladys neg | lects her meals is but little different from the manner in which her brother i skimps his.
 Therefore, say the members of tho l district branch of the National Con i gress of Mothers, it is of vital im- portance that parents who have chii- dren like Gladys and her brother keep l a more careful watch upon the diet Of their sons and daughters.
 The question of the proper feeding of school chiidren therefore has been chosen by them, together with other subjects more or less closely related to the welfare of the school child Tor their work this winter.
 Costumes of Girls.
 One Of the committees of the con- gress, whose membership is yet to be decided upon therefore, VIII take up this question of diet; another will com sider the problem of bringing about reform in the costumes of Che girl pupils. while still another wiil, in all Likelihood, begin q campaign to op- tain the appointment of assisiant8 for the overworked principals of the graded schools
 Mrs. Giles Scott Raiter who is pres ident of the District branch Of the congress. with which arc ahliated many mothers clubs throughout tho city, in discussing the question of diet for growing pupils, said
 Tho District branch of the Na-
 tional Congress of Mothers feels
 Chat the matter of.seeing thal tpe
 school chHdren of tho District are
 properly noWished Is among the
 mos important of the problems
 they arc called upon to consider
 We have heen told by mothers