TO THE EDITOR OF "THE PRESS."

Press, Volume L, Issue 14978, 27 May 1914, Page 12

TO THE EDITOR OF "THE PRESS."

Sir, —I was greatly interested in your leader on the above question, for it has been patent to mc for a long time that we are ruining the constitutions of tho rising generation by too much, hurry. What is the sense, for instance, of giving children an hour, or an hour and a quarter, to get home, have their dinner, and get back to school. The good old-fashioned twelve till two was all too short a time. Under present conditions it means a continuous rush, in getting home and back, also during the meal. It also often means, instead of a good square meal of meat and vegetables, a piece of bread and butter, or cake, and that curse of the community, tea. The majority of children now get 'their principal meal when father comes home, 6ay, 6 p.m., and, of course, as a rale, they havo no stomach for it —they are played out. Well, they get more tea and go to bed. If children get time for a little' relaxation between school hours, and are not haunted by the fear of being late, they will digest their dinners, providing they got them. Give tho little beggars a chance; don't hurry; throw away the teapot, get the price of fruit down about 50 or 75 ncr cent., and thero will then be a tlurd and fourth generation of lusty Now ZeaJanoers.—Yours, etc., LOOKING FORWARD.