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Attractive and Nourishing Dishes
Provided Little Students in the New
Campaign to Protect Them from
Poverty’s Lack of Food and
Ignorance’s Wrong Food
Well-Fed for a Penny Each.
T HERE are about twenty-five
thousand school children in
New York who do not set
enough to eat. Whatever they may
get for breakfast, if anything, they
go to sch'tol and put in the day with
out any provision whatever for get
ting any luncheon. Whatever, if any
thing, they get at home for their
evening meal is not very clearly
known.
There is no escaping the fact that
this little army of school children
go to school every day in New York
without luncheon. While the boards
of education in many other American
cities take care of this situation, the
New York school authorities do not
bother themselves with the matter.
In New York the school authorities
spend fifty dollars every year for
each child in instruction, but they
do not concern themselves with the
fact that a hungry child makes a
poor student.
What the New York school author
ities neglect has been done by the
consciences of a number of private
citizens, who have formed what is
known as the New' York School
Lunch Committee. This committee,
through the generosity of Mrs. Eliz
abeth Millbank Anderson, has worked
out a scheme which enables it to
supply lunches to school children for
one cent apiece.
What kind of a lunch can possibly
be served for one cent? Well, that
will be seen by the bill of fares
printed a little farther on.
Of course, there is no money being
made out of these one-cent lunches.
The truth is that the children get a
little bit more than one cent's worth
of food, but the lunch committee
never mention this fact, because they
are very anxious not to have the
children- suspect that there is any
element of charity in this matter.
When the poor little child walks
up and pays his penny he feels just
as independent and just as entitled
to everything that is handed hint as
anybody who pays his check at a
Fifth avenue hotel.
The one-cent meals are nourish
ing. Ma 1-nutrition is never neces
sarily the result of insufficient food.
The condition is just as likely to be
found among the wealthy as among
the less fortunate. It may Vie due to
over-eating of rich tilings, as well as
eating an insufficient quantity of Un
necessary foods. It is the result. 100,
often of ignorance of home econom
ics on the part of parents; nteglect
or wastefulness; congenital, heredi
tary diseases or physical defects in
parent or child, or decayed condition
of the teeth and consequent deterio
ration of the mouth.
No matter from whatever source
malnutrition results, this private
lunch committee had undertaken to
correct it wherever possible.
The service provided is intended
primarily to meet the need frequent
ly occasioned by the inability of the
mother to prepare the noon meal for
the child. This inability is the re
sult of a number of other evils, all of
w'hich in some way or othor menace
the public health or welfare.
It may be that Mary’s mother is
out working in a factory from early
in the morning until late at night,
and that Mary must eat a cold lunch
of doubtful nutriment which the
mother prepared long before Mary:
gets up from ber bed. and which
stands until Mary comes home at
noon hour to gulp it down.
Or it may be that Mary’s mother,
pressed by poverty, must supplement
whatever meagre income the family
receives by homework. She may be
finishing coats for one of our promi
nent clothiers or cracking nuts to go
into the candy of some of our popu
lar confectioners, or her ignorance
of home economy may render her un
able to cook food hygienically and
properly, or her lack of knowledge
of food values tend to have her pur
chase foods which, if properly se
lected, would yield a greater food
value for less money. It is because
of these varied conditions, only a
few' of w'hich are mentioned, that the
School Lunch Committee proposes
to attack the problem.
It is required that children taking
the penny lunches must eat a bowl
of soup. This is for the purpose of
insuring to each child a substantial
portion of warm, nourishing food.
The soup supplies approximately
one-third of the needed noon nutri
tion for a normal child.
In the service of these lunches it
must be taken into consideration
that the committee are dealing with
three distinct nationalities-—Ameri
can, Jewish and Italian. In order to
satisfy national likes and dislikes,
they have provided in the districts
predominantly Italian, cooks of that
nation, and similarly with the Amer
ican and Jewish districts. In the
American schools a half pint bowl of
the following soups may be obtained;
Cream of tomato, split pea, tripe,
clam chowder, rice soup, vegetable,
potato, Scotch broth and macaroni.
The food values in these soups
measured by calories very from 73.73
in vegetable soup to 147.82 in potato
soup.
In the Jewish schools the variety
of soups consists of the following;
Potato and barley, cabbage, Lima
beans with barley, vegetable, rice and
lentils, peas with noodles, pea beans
with rice, rice with milk, obergritz
with potatoes, poodles and milk.
The caloric value of soups in the
Jewish schools seems higher than
that of any except perhaps the Ital
ian soups. The food value of the
Jewish soups range from 107.51 in
rice and milk to 378,30 in rice and
lentils, the average number of cal
ories being 189.61.
At the Italian schools the soup va
riety consists of potato, split pea,
rice and lentils, macaroni and toma
to. peas and rice, lentil, beans and
pasta, menestra. rice and tomato,
peas and itasta.
These soups have food values
ranging from 136 in the rice and to
mato lo 203 in the peas and rice, the
average number of calories being
138.41.
The penny table lias also a va
riety of two or three things which
are chosen from the following list;
Bread fritters, rice pudding, po
tato salad, tomato salad, corn meal
pudding, cabbage salad (with boiled
dressing), ice cream, vanilla cake,
sandwiches made of jam. egg ami
onion, lettuce, meat and bologna, pot
cheese, bologna (with roasted pep
pers i. American cheese, butter, rad
ish.
There are also baked apples, lentii
salad, chocolate pudding, crackers,
apples on stick, apples, apple sauce,
prunes, sliced bananas with milk,
grapes, cocoa, bread pudding, sweet
chocolate squares, jelly cake, apple
pie.
it was found necessary to direct
the choice in respect to soup in or
der to prevent an indiscriminate
School Children with Their Penny Lunches. Note the Generous Sue
of the Bowls for the Soup.
purchase of foods, regardless of their
food values. The qualiy of the food
supplied the children is under the
strict supervision of expert dieti
tians.
During 1912 and 194 3, 226,325
lunches were served. For this th<-
children paid an aggregate of $6,-
011.37. Tile cost to the committee
of each lunch was approximately
$.045. The children paid for each
meal $.02(1. leaving a deficit oi $.019
for each meal served. This does not
mean that the actual provision of
food material is noi self-supporting.
The deficit here is caused by neces
sary service and supervision.
An interesting feature of the work
of the committee is the service of
lunches to the children of the
crippled classes. These children, de
prived of so much of the happiness
of normal children, are at least saved
the uncomfortable journey in the
stages provided by the Boai d of Ed
ucation for conveying them from
home to the school and back to lunch.
As it is. they have their good food
served to them in the school build
ing. and it is making the i very
happy and strong’.
An innovation soon to be started
is that of serving a mid morning por
tion of milk and crackers to the chil
dren in the anaemic classes. These
children are chosen because of their
devitalised condition. They are
taught in open air class rooms. There
is little doubt that the service of milk
and crackers in the middle of the
morning will materially increase
their vitality and make them again
normal children.
A child with a limited income may
receive, for instance, a half pint
howl of clam chowder, two slices of
Inead and a generous dish of prunes
for three cents, or if it is some day
other than Friday and not in a Jew
ish school, the child may receive
vegetable soup, a meat sandwich and
a vanilla cake for three cents, and
be, it thoroughly understood that it is
not only the poor child who attends
the school lunches. Frequently a
child possessed of as much as ten
pennies w'ill come to raid the pe.nny
table with its tempting doji clous
things, hut his ten cents will be
found to go too far. Unless he is
an unusually abnormal child, he will
hardly be able to assimilate more
than five cents' worth, because for
that he could get some clam chow
der, a meat sandwich, a cup of cocoa,
bread pudding and apple sauce.
There is the danger that the child
may be tending to mal-nourishment,
because of his over-eating one thing,
of course, and this the School Lunch
Committee is trying to prevent.
In one of the classes of crippled
children there is a 200 pound boy,
who was advised to give up school
lunches because of their tendency
to add avordupois.
The New York School Lunch Com
mittee consists of Miss Mabel H.
Kittredge, chairman; Mr. John A.
Kingsbury, secretary; Mr* Edward
F. Brown, executive secretary; Mr.
Willard D. Straight, Dr. C. Ward
Crampton. Mr. John Doty, Miss Lil
Man D. Wald, Mr. John Martin, Miss
M. A. Nutting, Mrs. Ernest Poole.
Mrs. V. G. Simkhovitch, Mrs. Benja
min Whittaker, Mrs. Joseph T. Rycr
son. Dr. Ira S. Wile, Dr. Thomas B
Wood, Mr. Bailey B. Burritt, Mr.
James H. Hutchens.
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