Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-06-09
"THE CHILD'S FIRST SCHOOL is THE FAMHY"-FrOebeI
HUNGRY CHILDREN
By Lydia Lion Roberts

"A mOIner was looking over a o of
old photographs and her little boy was
an interested watcher by her side. AS
one picture came into view the boy
exclaimed, whenever 1 see a picture
of Auntie Gertrude it makes me feel
hungry" Afterwards he explained
that is was because she brought him
so many good things to eat.
The aunt referred to was a very
busy oma yet she always managed
to find time to slip a gingerbread
man, or a popcorn ball, or a surprise
package into her bag for the children
where she visited. Another child never
forgot a basket trimmed with colored
tissue paper, holding home baked
cookies that her aunt brought to her
after she had been sick.
Food plays an important part in a
child's life and a mother may teach by
it as well as by other things. All chill
dren love surprises, and little faces
brighten on stormy days when a raisin
cake baked in their own little pan
appears, or a lunch-box dinner in
placed on the playroom table with
dainty sandwiches and fruit, and may
be a bit of candy or a few nuts.
Any little boy or girl likes to learn
to cook when mother is cooking and
though that is not an especially good
time for mother in one way, yet in an
other way it is the best time, for chill
dren are happy when busy and learn
quickly when interested. When
mother makes bread, the little tot
should have a ball of dough and a
raisin or a bit of jam to make a bis
cult. If the child has dishes big
enough-and this is important, for
there should be a small pan or I'M
breakable dish to do the cooking in
the work can be done exactly as
mother does it and therefrom come the
first lessons in cooking.
81 could turn those doughnuts," sug-
gested a small boy to his grandmother,
who was making the toothsome good
les. She started to turn him away as
she was busy and a bit nervous, but
thought better of it and showed the
child just how carefully it must be
done. Consequently he turned every
single one in a most grown-up way
and informed the family proudly that
night, Grandma and / made dough-
nuts today"
The ten cent store has many a small
tin and enamel pan that would make
a start towards a little girls cooking
set, and would give her much pleasure
and profit if she learned to take care
of the pans and to cook simple things
in them. The best way of all is to
suggest to a child hat a biscuit be
made for daddy's supper, or a tiny
cake as a surprise for a playmate
Thus the lessons in cooking and Civ
ing, planning and unselfishness are
learned together.
"We must remember that we
have not only the Present but the
Future to safeguard; our obliga-
lions extend even to generations
yet unborn"
Calvin Coolidge.
There are 1000, 900 children of kin
dergarten age in u country fol
whom no educational provision has
been made.
The kindergarten exerts a vital in
fuence upon the later life of the child
and it's moral and social training does
much to overcome criminal tendencies
in children whose home environment
is unfortunate.
If there is no kindergarten in your
| community, work for one. Write to
the National Kindergarten Associa-
ton, 8 West 10th Street, New York
| City, for information and advice.