FOOD OF RURAL CHILDREN 



121 



— Xo milk 



_ _ :Meat 



_ Potato 



_ Pie 



No vegetables 

 except potato 



Cake, cookies 

 doughnuts 



Vegetable 

 not potato 

 or leafy 



— — Pudding 



_ No vegetable 



Egg 



— — Milk or cocoa 



Coffee or tea 



_| Potato and 



1 vegetable 



100 



The Frequency with which the Most Usual Foods Appear in 50 CARVER 

 and 84 SOUTHWICK Menus of Noon Meals Eaten at Home, 

 by Children of Native and Mixed Parentage. 



towns is evident in these meals, 65 per cent of the Soiithwick children of 

 native stock having milk or cocoa, but only 12 per cent of those in Carver. 

 Pie was the popular Carver sweet, appearing in 58 per cent of the home noon 

 meals of the children of native parents. In Southwick more puddings than 

 pies were used in these families, 39 per cent of the meals having puddings and 

 23 per cent pie. Cake, cookies, or doughnuts (cookies less often than the 

 others) were served at 32 per cent of these Carver home noon meals, and 15 

 per cent of the Southwick ones. 



In the school lunches of Carver sweets occupied a striking place,, 64 per 

 cent of the lunches having two or more sweets — two pieces of pie, or pie 

 and cake, or two pieces of cake, or cake and doughnuts, or pie and dough- 

 nuts — and one-third of the lunches (32 per cent) contained three such sweets. 



