The head master of the Board School at Wallsend, seeing so much distress about, and that many of the children attending his school were badly prepared to face the lessons of the day for want of sufficient food at home, and being, it is said, a firm believer in oatmeal, once the chief of "Scotia's food," determined to do something on his own account without waiting for " a committee." So he ordered a good supply of oatmeal from a mill in Berwickshire, of the finest quality. The cooking operations commenced at 6: 30 a. m., and the porridge is allowed to boil for fifty minutes, and is cooled and ready for serving out at 8: 15. Each child is supplied with about a pint of porridge - more or less, according to size and appetite - and a little more than half a gill of good skimmed milk. About one hundred and twenty children are thus receiving breakfast at a cost of about one-half penny each, and in most cases they are given free. In times gone by oatmeal was also the staple food of the North of England; it will be curious if it comes again into use. Its value as regards nutrition for children is beyond dispute. High wages have conduced to a high class though not better food for the working class. - London Lancet.

The New York Hotel Reporter makes the following remarks upon country or seaside boarding.

"As a general thing the city boarder wants the full value of his money when sojourning in the country, and is hard to please. He will criticise the meat and say that it cannot be compared with that which he gets in the city. This may be true, if he really gets first rate city food. Our opinion is that the farmer's wife who takes boarders should confine herself to those dishes which she knows how to cook well - to the stews and the pot-pies. Her deserts should be ample puddings, especially in the season of fruits, the city boarder, who is always hungry in the country, does not care for thin and stingy little slices of cake and a spoonful of sweetmeats. The problem usually is, where can we have still salt water bathing and boating, shade, a quiet farmhouse where the people go to bed early, and where the food is plentiful, without being extravagantly fine, at a cheap price? These questioners always have children, big and little. The busy boarding-house of popular seaside resorts are not suitable for people who are disposed to be quiet and do not wish to be kept awake until after midnight by the banging of a cracked piano, by silly laughter and by noisy dancing. So that the quiet family which should like to be in a farmer's house on a still bay, with both a beach and shady trees, finds itself hard to please, especially when it wishes to pay about five dollars a head. The farmer's wife who has such a place is usually shy of boarders, and looks at them as if they are always dissatisfied, and is not disposed to take them at all. If she is, we have not heard of her at all. But the papers will soon be full of advertisements of boarding places and people will be seeking for what they will never get. After all it is a problem. Who will explain?"