122 



MASS. EXPERIMENT STATION BULI.ETIN 241 



Per 

 cent 



CHART 



Two or more 

 sweets 



_ Fruit 



Meat 

 sandwiches 



■— Three sweets 



andwiches 



Jelly 

 sandwiches 



8. The Frequency with which Certain Foods Appear in the Menus of 170 

 CARVER and 124 SOUTHWICK Box Lunches of Children of 

 Native, Mixed and Foreign-born Parentage. 



Southwick sclmol lunches did not have so many sweets, only one-fourtli (23 

 per cent) of the noon meals eaten at the schoolhouse having two sweets, and 

 but five out of 124 lunches having three sweets. In either town a box lunch 

 without at least one sweet was practically an unheard-of thing. 



In general the child who goes home for his noon meal fares better than the 

 one who nnist carry it. Although home noon meals are far from ideal, they 

 do have at least one hot dish, and the amount of pie and cake is not quite so 

 great as it is in the lunch box. The t>'])es of school lunch eaten by these rural 

 school children can best 1)€ judged from the menus below, which were selected 

 from the records at random. 



