A WOMAN'S FARM JOURNAL - University of Illinois

FIRST AID FOR THE LUNCH BOX
Upon This Noon Meal Hangs Much of Health and Happiness
PEARL BAILEY LYONS
NEARLY every home, at some time cut about one quarter of an inch' thick in
IN or other, lunch boxes are a necessity
and the vexing problem has. worried
oblongs, rounds, diamonds and even heart
shapes to lend a little change to the "looks."
many a house-wife. When the man of Grown-ups as well as the children enjoy
the house needs to carry his lunch the finding odd-shaped sandwiches with un-
problem is not much different from the known fillingrand it takes only a few min-
one presented by the children's lunch, utes longer to cut them.
although the chief factor to be considered In packing the lunch, place the things
is the kind of work the man is doing and to be eaten last in the.box first and the
to furnish him withj the necessary food things which naturally would be wanted
that will supply the essentials he needs.
In selecting suitable boxes in which to
first on the top of the box.
Too many things in
carry the lunch, consideration must be
made for the things you intend to send
in • the lunches.
The man's lunch
box should be
substantial and The following little table of First Aids
ample to hold a for the Lunch Box may becutout, mounted
good sized lunch. on cardboard and hung up for reference in
The children like planning the family lunches.
to ' change the Bread for sandwiches: Wheat, brown,
style and color nut, nut brown, oatmeal, rye, raisin.
of their boxes Fillings for sandwiches: Minced ham,
occasionally so beef hash, bologna, veal salad, baked beans,
that good firm minced egg, apple and celery salad, tuna
cardboard boxes salad, olives and green peppers, brown
will answer very sugar, peanut butter, jelly, jam, marma-
nicely.
lade, honey, molasses, lettuce and salad
It is well to dressing, raisins and corn syrup, salmon
keep on hand salad, minced chicken.
plenty of plain Fruits: Oranges, apples, figs, dates,
white paper nap- bananas, raisins.
kins. Colored Cakes: Cup cakes, spice, cinnamon
napkins are apt rolls, raised doughnuts, sugar cookies,
to fade off bad; coffee cake, ginger snaps, graham crackers,
ly on the things , cream puffs, ginger bread, oatmeal cook-
in the box and ies, chocolate cookies.
give- a sad-look- Soups: Cream of pea, cream of celery,
ing appearance •bean, chicken with rice, cream of corn,
to the lunch. clear tomato thickened.
Another neces- Puddings: Gelatine with fruit, bread
sary is paraffin with raisins, rice, tapioca, chocolate.
paper.
Other desserts: Cup custards, junket,
A thermos •baked apples, canned fruit.
bottle meets the Drinks: Milk, chocolate, buttermilk,
problem of keep- coffee.
ing coffee , choc- Extras: Puffed rice balls, pop corn
olate , and even 4>alls, nuts, candy, sweet chocolate bars,
cream soups pip- seedless raisins, celery.
ing hot and these Recipes for any of the above will be sent
things add much by mail if request is accompanied with suf-
to the otherficient postage for mailing.
wise cold meal.
Where a thermos
bottle is not
available for the hot drinks a good heavy
bottle may be made to answer for the
purpose.
Individual porcelain cups are nice to
use for desserts, baked beans, -custards
and many things which cannot be sent
without a dish.
For sandwiches many kinds of bread and
fillings may be used. Day-old bread will
cut to better advantage and make better
sandwiches than fresh and is much better
for the digestion. The bread should be
'the lunch box is not
good. Better have three things today and
a complete change tomorrow than to have
to repeat tomorrow.
In preparing
the desserts for
dinner today,
plan ahead for
the little dessert
cups for the
lunches tomorrow.
Make
enough more to
fill them and set
them aside all
ready for packing
in the morning.
Try to make
the lunch hour a
happy one for
the absent ones
by adding" zest
and interest in
the unexpected
contents of the
lunch box. This
is easily accomplished
by adding
one new
feature or dish
each day, somethingdifferent
and not repeating
day after
day the same
hard-boiled -eggcold
- meat-andbread
variety
too often met
with in the
average lunch
box.
It is wise to
keep a proper balance of foods in the
lunch. For example if the sandwich
filling is of meat, plan a simple fruit
dessert ; or if the sandwich is a sweet
filled one, use the oustard pudding, gelatine
desserts, baked beans or something more
hearty for the other dish.
When the lunch is planned, packed and
all ready to close, slip into the corners a
few nuts, simply shelled or salted or a few
pieces of candy or maple sugar to "top off
with." These make the whole complete.
PUZZLES FOR YOUNG FOLK
TO
WORK out the picture sum given
here, first write down the names of the
nine little objects. Then add and subtract
their letters as indicated by
the signs and the resulting
letters will spell one of the
United States.
Concealed Geography
Each of the following
sentencescontainsthe name
of a city, town or village in
the United States:
1. Now let the Doctor
see Jumbo's tongue.
L. It you are the curlew 1 stoned yesterday,
I apologize.
3. Frightened by the terrible mob, I
led sister away.
4. How nicely Anna
polishes the silver when
Jack is expected.
5. Just look at that
superb Angora cat!
A Puzzling Proverb
The picture at the right is
a rebus and hides a saying,
with which we are all
familiar. Can you guess it?
SAM LOYD
Up and Down the Hill
Charlie Speed reports that his little
car took him up a steep hill at the rate of
one and one-half miles an
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at the rate of sixty miles
an hour so it required just
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