The Importance of Food

Our clothing was insufficient to protect us from the severe cold. We had no boots. The snow got into our shoes and melted there. Our ungloved hands became numbed and covered with chilblains, as were our feet. With the keen appetites of growing children, we ad scarcely sufficient to keep alive. A delicate invalid from this deficiency of nourishment resulted an abuse which pressed hardly on the younger pupils. Whenever the famished great girls had an opportunity, they would coax or menace the little ones out of their portion. Many a time i have shared between two claimants the precious morsel of brown bread distributed at tea time. And after relinqishing to a third,

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