A Halt On Pickles

Considerable interest is being manifested in regard to the luncheons providod at recess for the boys and girls in the high schools. At almost every high school in tho city the majority of the pupils buy their luncheons from tho lunch counter kept by the janitor, says the Boston Transcript, and the food so provided consists largely of pies and cakes- "bakehouss stuff," as some peopla cali it - and mckles. The janitor keeps that kind of food because the pupils will buy it in preferenco to any more wholesoir.e kinds, and also because there is probably more proüt init. Nevertheless, the parents of the pjpils are anxious that some difieren o system may be adopted in the matter of furnishing luncheons. They think it high time that something was done about it, for in schools where there are no lunch counters, peddlers of cheap candy, cocoanut cake and other unwholesorne compound-3 rcake their appearance at recess, and are -jenerally well patronizad by the hunry boys and girls. The first official step toward bettering this state of tilinga was taken when order was passed by the school board providing that all luncheons sold in the public schools should be sucb. as are approved by the committee on hygiëne and physieal training. Moreover, the committee was instructed to report at the next of the board a plan for providing suitable luno.heons at proper places for the high schooi pupils. Just what the committee intends to do is hard to say, but S9veral persons interested are hoping ih.a.% it will be able to make some arrangements with ! the New England kiteh?n whereby soups, sandwiches, milk and other wholeso.ne articles o food may be furnished directly to the pupils at moderate prices. The kitchen has its main station on Pleasant street, and another station at the North End. lt is thought that soups might be carried from the kitchen to the schools in tanks, just as coffee is sometimes transport-jd, and in that way might be served hot. Such a system of providing luncheons would b more favorable to the health of the pupils. and therefora more acceptabi to the parents. As for the old system, the j janitors are not thought to merit any blame, for they simply povided what the pupils buy; but now -hat tho committee has taken the matter in hand, it is likely that most pupils will give up the prac'cice of making a luncheon on an eclair, a pleoe oí pie or a pickle.