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Show School Lunches That Ring the Bell pUPrORR mother were graded on their school lunch boxes O wouid you have made all A's term? Would yon have been promoted into a higher grade? jell it's a new term, and like Jotiany .who is starting out with Ms new necktie and his new knob-box, .we have a chance to begin all over again. If It's true, as tiresome teachers. U;ed to tell us, that we never get through learning and we go to rhool all through life, certainly jietetics is a course which mothers roust speci126 in from the time vonngsters begin to eat until the time they begin to eat,away from home. But it's not as easy as mere dietetics. They must major In dietetics and minor in psychology. psychol-ogy. For not only must the child bt offered the correct foods for tidy building, but he must be led to like these correct foods. And that's not so easy. Hot Lunch Preferable For children who come home for lunch or buy a warm lunch in the ichool lunchroom and these are the best conditions for the noon-dy noon-dy meal the problem is simpler. For, at home, yoii have already worked out a way to make the proper foods most attractive and the atmosphere conducive to en-( en-( joying the meal. You no doubt hive some gay little lunch-cloths different' from (lie dinner s6rt and some cheerful china, which Is not necessarily expensive china, but the kind that children enjoy eating from.- - You-have flowers on the table, just as if you were serving serv-ing Daddy at dinnertime, and you have some interesting things to talk about . so . that the moments fly merrily along until time to dash back to school. Or if there is a good school lunch-room, you no doubt see that Johnnie gets to eat there often. It is his club. The other fellows eat there there's lots to talk over; the food is dletetically right and it tastes good because it's a change from home food. Pack-and-Carry Lunch But for the child who must carry his lunch to school; we want to make these suggestions which we hope will prove helpful: First, plan the lunch so that it will be interesting and appetizing in appearance. Include foods which vary in shape, color, flavor and texture. An example of this would be two generous-sized sandwiches sand-wiches wrapped each separately in waxed paper one red salmon and lettuce on white bread cut in triangles, and the other a cream cheese and pimiento sandwich on whole wheat bread, cut with a circular cir-cular cookie cutter; a low jar with a lid containing a fruit salad-fresh salad-fresh pineapple, canned pitted cherries and orange slices; a thermos containing a cold malted milk drink, which can be shaken again before drinking, with straws included; and some gay colored cellophane wrapped cookies, 01 tiny frosted cup cakes. Second, vary the lunches so thai no two days in the week are duplicates dupli-cates in any food on the school-box school-box menu. The way to do this ia to make out the weekly menu on Saturday before you send in your grocery order. Or better, still, go into the grocery store on Saturday and look around. You will find all sorts of new and intriguing foods for children new cookies in tins to keep them fresh, new sandwich spreads in cans, new canned fruit juices, a variety of chocolate malted drinks, and new accessories such as paper napkins, waxed papers, etc., to make the lunch box neat and attractive. Here are two suggestions for die-tetic, die-tetic, delicious lunch-box menus: Salmon or T una Fish Sandwich Lettuce and Cream Cheese Sandwich Chocolate Blanc Manga Dates or Figs Milk Deviled Ham Sandteich Bacon and Tomato Sandteich Chocolate Milk Shake Baked Custard Apple -s |