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Show l 1 pom S-r7-:--:vA School Lunches That Ring the Bell SUPPOSE mothers were graded on their school lunch boxes would you have made all A's last term? Would you have been promoted into a higher grade? Well, it's a new term, and like Johnny who is starting out with his new necktie and his new lunch-box, we have a chance to begin all over again. It it's true, as tiresome teachers used to tell us, that we never get . through learning and we go to school all through life, certainly dietetics is a course which mothers must specialize in from the time youngsters 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 he offered the correct foods for body 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 school lunchroom and these are the best conditions, for the noonday noon-day meal the problem is simpler. For. at home, you have already woiked out a, way to make the proper foods most attractive and the atmosphere conducive to enjoying en-joying the meal. You no doubt have some gay little lunch-cloths different from the dinner sort and some cheerful china, which is not necessarily expensive china, hut 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 dietetically right and it tastes good because it's a change from home lood. 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 pineapple, canned pitted cherries and orange slices; a thermos containing a cold malted milk drink, which can he shaken again before drinking, with straws included; and some gay colored cellophane wrapped cookies, or tiny frosted cup cakes. Second, vary the lunches so that 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 is 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 dietetic, die-tetic, delicious lunch-box menus: Salmon or Tuna Fish Sandwich Lettuce and Cream Cheese Sandwich Chocolate Blanc Mange Dates or Figs Milk Deviled Ham Sandwich Bacon and Tomato Sandwich Chocolate Milk Shake Baked Custard Apple |