The Child's Day

of time to sit down and eat it slowly and chew every piece of food thoroughly. Many children who bring luncheons to school just gra

uietly for a few minutes before starting to play hard. This will give your stomach a chance to get all the blood it wants to use in digesting the food; for, you remember, when you

indeed, no girl ought to be considered properly educated until she has learned to cook, and no boy either, for that matter. Then, if the school has this kitchen, it can be used to furnish hot luncheons, or d

ldn't we eat our food raw instead of taki

ame back "hungry as a hunter." She called him in to dinner; and in he came, sat down, picked up the carving knife-then he stopped! What do you suppose was the matter? The beef was raw! Then he lifted the cover of the potato dish, and there lay the potatoes raw! Then he tried another dish an

k. For it is a fact that, just as soon as you smell food, your stomach begins to get ready the juice that is to digest it. If this very first juice, which is called the appetite juice, is not poured out, then the fo

tter and digest it more readily. You know what a difference there is between trying to eat a raw

ills any disease germs, or germs of decay, that may happen to have g

front of the shop, or in open boxes or baskets inside the store, and leaving them there all day. This is very dangerous, because dust from the street, which contains horse manure and all sorts of germs, may blow in upon them; flies, which have been eating garbage or feeding at the mouths of sewers, may come in and crawl over them. You ought to be v

cooked, it is very important that they should be nicely served on clean dishes, on a clean table cloth, with polished knives and shining spoons and forks. This means not only that everything about the table and the food will be perfectly clean and wh

Everyone, boys and girls both, should know how to cook simple things. Perhaps some day you will be stranded, like Robinson Crusoe, on a desert island! Perhaps the rest of the family may be sick. How nice it would be for you to be able to prepare breakf

others, just as some boys and girls can draw better than others. I hope some of you will be what we might call "ar

ease. You should have the frying pan just as hot as possible before you begin to fry; and then the meat or potatoes or cakes will be seared,

or bread will be burned or scorched. Even if the heat does not do this, it may harden and

earn to make it at school or at home, you can always have some to eat after your luncheon without having to buy it. If you do buy candy, don't get the bright colored kind; it looks pretty, but

have used. Food and scraps that are left sticking to dishes and cooking utensils very quickly turn sour and dec

roughly baked; if it is soggy and sour, it will make trouble in your stomach. Whether all