Growing boys and girls consume at least as much food as adults, perhaps more. If there is any difference to be made in regard to children it must be for those of too tender age to come to table. Hotels generally charge full price for children occupying seats at the first table, that is, children who take the napkins, the clean silver, goblets of ice water, the newly filled cruets, the dishes of olives and sardines, the waiter's time at the busy hour; they are charged for all the extras that make meals expensive; as for the amount of food they consume it is but of secondary importance, but it is the same as the adults require. It is often the case that the baskets of fruit and nuts, cakes and candies are untouched during the whole dinner until the children come; the grown people have enough without, but the children will make a clean sweep and carry off what they cannot eat; then it is the children who make the heaviest drafts upon the cans of milk and cream and that, too, between meals. It is good for them and all right, but it ought to' be counted at full price if you are going into the business of boarding children on a first-class scale.