Etiquette Lessons with Mac and Cheese

A childhood favorite of Etiquipedia, homemade macaroni and cheese is one of the ultimate comfort foods requested by everyone from toddlers to baby boomers when in need of something hot and healthy. - Above, two large and stunning macaroni servers in sterling with gilded bowls and tines. On the left is a Wm B Durgin Co. rare piece, in the multi motif Scroll 1886 Aesthetic floral pattern, & is engraved Elsie Lincoln and marked with the 1878. It has a Durgin D hallmark Sterling & the silversmith retailer Bailey Banks & Biddle. On the right is a Hamilton & Diesinger macaroni server in an unknown pattern, with a large and deep bowl. This is the largest I have seen of this type of utensil.

Children May Be Served with Hot Midday Meal…

This Is Latest Proposal of the Mothers' and Second Ward Improvement Clubs

Hot lunches for the school-children is the latest proposal of the Second Ward Improvement Club and the Parents and Teachers’ Club of the Grant Grammar School, the food to be furnished to the tots at a nominal figure and served to them in one of the schoolrooms, which is to be fitted up for the purpose,

The subject was brought to the attention of the Improvement Club by Mrs. F. Karo, President of the Parents and Teachers’ Club, who asserted that the idea is a good one from an economic viewpoint as the cost of the box lunch would be no greater than that of the “cold bite” carried by the child. One of the advantages from the hot lunch, she pointed out, is that the child will not be forced out into the rain and there required to sit for half a day with wet garments, as many are compelled to do during the rainy season. No small proportion of the children are ill-fed, she asserted. and to assist such as these, as well, it is proposed to give them something warm for the mid-day meal.

A light lunch, consisting of bread and butter, soup or beans, or macaroni and cheese and other dishes of this kind, Mrs. F. B. Brown said, could be served for the sum of 5 cents and should the child wish something more a dessert of some kind could be furnished for sum not exceeding 2 cents more. The subject has already been taken up by Joseph E. Hancock, Principal of the school, who will arrange to have one of his teachers in charge of the tables so that instruction in table etiquette may be given to those who need it.

The two clubs, working with the cooperation of the School Board and the Principal, expect to have the proper equipment installed in the near future. All present at the meeting felt certain that but little trouble would be encountered in getting the necessary money with which to start such a plant.

The Second Ward Club warmly commended the action of the City Council in rushing the work on the curbs and gutters in that portion of the city, as well as the city's activity in the direction of clearing the streets and vacant lots of weeds. — San Jose Mercury News, 1911

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