The Teacher’s Poor Lunch-Basket
By Editor
A WRITER in a school journal finds a cause for the frequent failure in health of lady teachers, in a poorly supplied lunch-basket. We heartily concur with the following observations on the subject:— “If many of our lady teachers are not unhealthy, it is due more to good luck than good management. They starve themselves. No wonder they lose their plumpness, and no wonder their blood is thin, eyes either droopy or vacant. It is almost a miracle that they are not tortured with tic-douloureux and neuralgia. Blotched faces, smoked complexions, and shriveled skin, should not be complained of, because they came in obedience to their bidding. All these are the result of starvation. “The interior of the average teacher's lunch-basket is a curiosity. There are a few cookies, a piece of pie, a slice of cake, a taste of cheese, and an apple or orange. There may be half a dozen pea-nuts and a few caramels, but this is only on special occasions, such as the day after having been at the opera. Anything would grow sickly, thin, and pimpled on such a diet. There is scarcely any nourishment in it, particularly of the kind necessary to repair nerve waste. There being no food for the teeth, they become full of bone-colored spots, which sooner or later turn black.”