Note 4 — Chapter VIII · EDUCATION A HUNDRED YEARS HENCE

Having properly decided that it is well for children to be fed plainly while at school, parents take the greatest pleasure in alleviating this plainness by “tuck baskets” during term, and the most wicked and immoral palate-tickling during holidays. Indeed an excessive appetite seems to be regarded even by quite sensible people as rather an ornament to the juvenile character. Mr Cooper, whose charming book, The Twentieth Century Child, has already been referred to, describes with what I am afraid is approval the incident of a boy whom he brought away from school for a pleasure-trip just after lunch, and who cheerfully devoured a second lunch in the company of his friend. Assuredly our descendants will make no such mistakes as this. ↑