Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1892 — London's Breakfastless Children. [ARTICLE]

London's Breakfastless Children.

Cable, in New York Sun. There are forty thousand little children in London who go breakfastless to school every morning. This is the saddest feature of the great unemployed -.problem which agitates the metropolis. The mat ter has been urgently brought before the School Board this week by delegates from the idle workmen, with a request that the city should fill the stomachs ar. well as-tl.e brains of the little ones whose attendance it compels. The subject has already been scmi-officially invesf’gatfcd. and the appalling figure, which are dally growing, were found to be about correct It is also said that a wholesome porridge can be provided at cost ol only a halfpenny per child. It is arged that, unless such an expedient is adopted, the compulsory education law might as well be re pealed for hunger for knowledge and. hunger for food can never coexist in the same body Jeaatofall a child's.