Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-14
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Of careful, sensible management.
For the children who carry their
lunches. and must perforce eat them
cold the child who buys IL at the near
by shops and the child who carries q
portion and buys a portion. great deal
of study must be given to circumvent
the ills that so frequently result from
the lack of proper provision or super
vision. After exhaustive study. Uncle
Sans agents in the home economics
division of the Department of Agricul-
ture have determined just what should
20 into the school lunch box, basket or
bundle. and likewise just what should
comprise a home lunch or a hot lunch
con served at school buildings.
Nine practical school lunches have
been chosen. all OF which contain the
proper amounts of salts, fats, protefns,
starch. sugars. etc. that are deemed es-
sential for the human body Doubtless
they will solve puzzle Tor many an
anxious mother:
~ Sandwiches with sliced tender
meat for filling. baked apples, cookies
or a few Jumps of sugar,
t2) Slices of meat loaf. or bean loaf,
bread and butter sandwiches, stewed
fruit. small frosted cakes.
go Crisp rolls. followed out and filled
with chopped meat or hsh moistened
and seasoned or mixed with salad
dressing, orange apple, mixture OF
sliced fruits or berries cake.
90 Lettuce or celery sandwiches, cup
custard. Jelly sandwiches.
Co Cottage cheese and chopped green
pepper sandwiches. or a pot of cream
cheese with bread and butter sand
witches. peanut sandwiches, fruitcake.
90 Hard boiled eggs. crisp baking
powder biscuits. celery or radishes.
brown sugar or maple sugar sand
60 Bottle of milk, thin corn bread
and butter. dates. apple.
(s) Raisin or nut bread with butter.
cheese. orange, maple sugar.
(s) Baked bean and lettuce sand
witches. apple cause, sweet chocolate.
With parafflne paper. paper cups, jelly
glasses and the many kinds of lunch
boxes now on the market the carrying
of these articles rs made possible and
easy.
The sturdy bodies. bright eyes and
general air Of perfect health which the
two pure-food babies, Harvey Wiley,
jr., aged four, and his brother, John
Preston, fairly radiate. sent the diet
Investigator straight to Mrs. Harvey
w. Wiley to beg the rule of her chill
claims any knowledge of dietetics other
than that which her experiences with
her own children have taught her.
"Of course, you must always see TO
IL that you choose tissue building
foods she began. earnestly. That Is
the important point Then you must
see that you do not lose all of the ele-
ments of value in body building in the
preparation for the market and the
table. as is true of all cereal products
that do not contain the whole grain
Yes, cereals rank high. 1 believe I
would put them first, always including
milk, however. Cereals contain the
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man system.
while our children were yet babies
we began feeding them a cereal mush,
and that has always formed a large
the whole wheat cereals part of the
time and the cornmeal the balance.
with rice for variety. These cereal
meals or flours should be ground under
the best conditions of cleanliness and
the entire grinding used in the making
of the porridge or breads.
Harvey. jr.. being about four years
of age, now eats pretty much every
thing except pork and sweets and pas
tries. These are never allowed. nor
are fried foods given to these children.
All meats must be either roasted, boil
ed or broiled and then chopped fine.
Chicken, beef and lamb and fish, now
and then, is included in their dinners.
Plenty of fruits are given. excepting
the tartest of the berries. though much
of the fruit is stewed or baked.
pie miss much of the valuable parts OF
fruits and vegetables In discarding
their skins, we do not let the boys eat
fruit skins. Even the prunes are
skinned, and apples, which have form
ed such a continuous part of their bill
of fare, are baked or stewed and only
the strained pulp used Vegetables
continued Mrs. Wiley. ARE most inn
portant: spinach is especially good and
our children are especially fond of IL.
NO. that is not queer taste for a
child; 1t is simply normal taste. \
child. If healthy. will have plenty OF
vided his taste has not been perverted
by allowing him to learn the taste OF
sweets.
NO" she laughed, Harvey. Jr.. has
never tasted candy. He has had home
made ice cream, but thinks very little
of it. Occasionally he has some very
special molasses. that has no glucose
in II, on his cornbread. or banana
sliced up on his cereal, but that is the
limit of his knowledge of sugar"
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us he never to have candy" the
caller asked in establishment.
Certainly: when they reach the base
ball age they will get sufficient exer-
else to use up the heat the use of
sugar creates. Then II will not be
harmful to them and they may eat
what they want. There is no depriva-
ton to them when they do not know
what it is.
"Chldren's food. I have found, re-
auires thoughtful care, particularly in
the beginning. Ii they are started
right and get a good. sound digestion,
they are likely to get along all right.
We start ours with cup of orange
Juice in the morning before breakfast.
and every item of food given to them
has its place and a purpose in the It's
sue building of their little bodies. So
far" she concluded cheerily. 1T has
proven most satisfactory"
For the benefit of the schools as well
as the mothers who are interested to
see that their school children obtain
the best noon lunch, the Department
of Agriculture has issued an enticing
number of suggestions with the recipes
for their preparations. In this budget.
cocoa and soups of all kinds, chiefly