Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1911 — Meals Will Cost One Cent [ARTICLE]

Meals Will Cost One Cent

Miss Margaret McMillan, London Sociologist, Tells of Feeding Needy Pupils at Bradford, England.

Chicago.—The beneficial influence derived from furnishing substantial food to the school children of England was demonstrated by Miss Margaret MacMillan, a prominent sociologist of London, who Is In America investigating social conditions. Her talk was given before the Woman’s City club. “Education, valuable, of course, in all departments of life,’’ she said, “pays the most In the kitchen. The proper distribution In diet of protelds, glutens, nitrogen, sugars, etc., can only be determined by expert physicists,

and their Influence on the brain capacity Is most marked. In Bradford, England, we are dally giving two meals a day to over 9,000 school children.

“Everything utilized at the nine different dining halls, variously distributed throughout the city, which has a population of 200,000, is prepared In one kitchen, and sent to the different places by wagonß.

“The cost Is a little more than two cents per head per day, and It is a crime not to supply children, who otherwise would be without it, with nourishing foods to prepare them for their life’s work. The children of today are the mainstay of our governments In the future, and it is their right to be given every advantage to make them competent to take up the vast works which we will Boon leave off." The older children In the Bradfordare taught to wait upon the smaller children, teaching them table etiquette, etc. According to Mias MacMillan, the proper handling of a knife and fork at table are as much manual training as being able properly Us wield an ax.