Stores Accepting Food Stamps Face Stricter Rules

[1939]

15. Never would have happened in my youth

Old Miss Irongirdle stood watch over the trash can and the tray return. If you hadn't consumed everything, you were sent back to your table until you had eaten all of the glop and returned with clean plates and bowls.

Of course, that was before children had "rights" and it was useless to complain to your parents. That was why I always toted a lunch box. My mother would always give me a sandwich (two as I got older) and a wrapper with four cookies for desert plus a thermos of milk (or sometimes Kool Aid).