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Noon meals 



Contrasts between the sort of noon meal eaten when the child goes home 

 and that carried to school are shown in Tables 13 and 14. So little diflference 

 was found between the lunches taken to school by the children of native 

 parentage and those of foreign-born parentage that in Table 14 the data are 

 presented for all children together. Very likely the children of foreign-bora 

 parentage demand lunches that will not seem different from those of the 

 others. At any rate, inspection of lunch boxes brought to light no essential 

 variation between the groups. 



The home noon meals had hot foods, meat and potatoes being the most 

 frequent items on the menus. The difference m milk utilization in the two 



Tabue 13. Princ-ipal Items in Noon Meals at Homie 



Table 14. Principal Items in Sdiool Lunches 



