Better Lunches lor 



Sehool Children 



Rural Women of Livingston County 



Tell Wiiat To Feed Growing Youngsters 



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Neil Flatt Goodman, Home 

 Bureau Editor 



V^^^^ HERE has been so much agi- 

 ^"~Y^ tation over the plight of the 



^^ rural school by educators, or- 

 ganizations, newspapers, and others, 

 that the women of Livingston county 

 thought something should be done 

 about it. If so much was wrong with 

 their schools they should make them 

 better. And, woman-like, they started 

 out to do this something by seeing if 

 the children had enough to eat. They 

 believed with Dr. Mary Swartz Rose, 

 'feed a growing child properly and 

 you have help>ed to make a good citi- 

 zen.' 



"We didn't start out haphazardly," 

 Mrs. Clarence Brownsey, Dwight, coun- 

 ty chairman of Home Bureau explained. 

 "We went to those who should know 

 the school problems, the county super- 

 intendent and the county nurse. They 

 furnished information, made sugges- 

 tions, and cooperated in every way. We 

 worked with them." 



Now, when Johnny and Mary of 

 Livingston county pick up their din- 

 ner buckets this fall and once again 

 start their daily trip to the district 

 school they will be starting with not 

 just a 'hot' lunch but an adequate one. 

 That is they will, if they and their 

 mothers remember the nutrition les- 

 sons presented last spring in 28 of the 

 30 townships of the county. 



Perhaps in their buckets will be 

 grapes, a lettuce and whole wheat bread 

 sandwich, an egg salad sandwich and 

 cocoa. Or maybe, some cream of po- 

 tato soup in the thermos bottle, an 

 orange, and peanut butter sandwiches. 

 Mrs. Brownsey told why these lunches 

 would be adequate. 



"When mothers plan lunches they 

 want them to contain these essentials: 

 one half pint of milk, or two foods 

 made of an equivalent amount of milk, 

 as custards, cocoa, cream soups, or ice 

 cream ; and some substantial foods, as 

 bread and butter, beans, eggs, meat, 

 or cheese. A desert may be added al- 

 though this is not essential for the ade- 

 quate lunch. 



"Many mothers were surprised how 

 with a little thought they could fol- 

 low this plan. Their home-grown 

 celery, raw carrots, home canned pears 

 and raisin bread give variety instead 

 of the wornout, oldtime lunch of meat 

 and jelly sandwiches, crumbly cake or 

 left over pie." 



UVINGSTON COUNTY TRAINING 

 SCHOOL 



Misa Annatrong, uutructing. Miss Brown- 

 sey, assisting. 



Forty women attended the two train- 

 ing schools conducted by Miss Grace 

 Armstrong, nutrition specialist. Univer- 

 sity of Illinois. Miss Armstrong said 

 that a good daily food schedule for a 

 school child should include one quart 

 of milk, butter at every meal, cereal 

 or bread or potatoes at every meal, 

 at least two vegetables (one leafy) in 

 addition to potatoes, tgg or meat. 

 Older children may have both meat 

 and eggs and all may have sweets in 

 small amounts at the end of the meal. 

 The mother's problem was to plan 

 the three meals so the child may have 

 all these foods when one meal must 

 be carried to school. 



These 40 women leaders worked in 

 teams of two and gave 41 demonstra- 

 tion meetings attended by 954 women. 

 According to Mrs. Brownsey, repre- 

 sentatives from 145 rural schools at- 

 tended the meetings representing some 

 1160 school children. 



The idea was to get the nutrition 

 lesson over to all the mothers whether 

 Home Bureau members or not. What 

 to put in the lunch was stressed rather 



MISS AGNES THOMPSON. TEACHER 

 o{ tha McGroth School, Liringston county 

 and soma of har pupils. 



"Hot lunch each day, the children share 

 hi the uork." 



than how to prepare special dishes. 

 The children were present at the lessons 

 in each school and learned to score 

 their own lunch. Samples of good 

 lunches were displayed on trays, and 

 possible ways of carrying foods such 

 as in a thermos bottle, pint jar, or milk 

 bottle were demonstrated. 



Miss Agnes Thompson, one of the 

 cooperating teachers, reported that the 

 children were eager to help in the 

 nutritional program. A hot dish is 

 served at noon in her school. 



Home Bureau women contributed a 

 total of 120 days, four full months of 

 time, to this community project. They 

 feel that this is a practical way of im- 

 proving rural schools. 



Even with a picture out of place, the 



entire harmony of a room may be up- 

 set. A primary rule to remember is- 

 that the picture must be in keeping 

 with the wall space. If the wall space 

 is large and broad the picture should 

 also be large and broad ; if the wall 

 space is long and narrow, the ideal 

 picture also would be long and narrow. 



Drink chilled fruit juices which con- 

 tain only the natural amount of sugar 

 if you would keep cool in hot weather. 

 Avoid concoctions high in sugar con- 

 tent. Sugar is a heat producing food. 



When you want rolled crumbs, try 



putting the crackers or dry bread in a 

 paper sack and use the rolling pin on 

 them. All the usual muss on the bread 

 board is saved and no crumbs are left 

 to brush up. 



White spots and rings on furniture often 



caused by water may be removed easily at 

 Iiousecleaning time by the use of ammonia 

 water. 



SEPTEMBER, 1939 



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