SCHOOL LUNCHES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 46, 29 May 1916, Page 4

SCHOOL LUNCHES.

An Australian writer says with regard to the “school lunch” ;—“The early breakfast (probably gobbled); a rush to school on font. or bv tram, train, or boat; exciting hours of eager brain work, active games, more brain work ere bedtime. Does anybody realise what this strenuous day means to the growing body and brain, do people think of the irritating strain upon a developing nervous system? And, if so, ran they honestly believe that the cold mid-day basket meal is the 'ight sort of fuel with which to stoke the furnace of vitality?” The writer strongly urges the establishment of “tresrlo and form” lunches, where threepenny meals of good soup and bread; baked potatoes and milk; milk pudding; and various simple nourishing foods, can lie obtained, nicely prepared perhaps by members of the cookery classes, which are fairly universal in schools now. The idea is not claimed as original. as years ago in London a penny restaurant was established, where the little cooks were all the daughters of wo iking men.