Quite recently it has been claimed that the feeding of children in the public elementary schools should be entirely gratuitous--that is to say, that food should be provided for well-to-do as well as for necessitous children. This claim is supported by the following arguments: (_a_) It is a logical consequence of universal free education; (_b_) if school meals are provided for necessitous children only, as if in relief of destitution, then, however tactfully this may be done, parents and children alike feel ashamed and suffer from a loss of self-respect. The following objections are made to these views: (_a_) Feeding satisfies a natural need, education a need peculiar to civilised man; (_b_) it is possible to provide a suitable diet in the family circle, but not to provide there a satisfactory education; (_c_) provided the feeding of the children is general, no one need be ashamed, if those parents able to pay have to pay, whilst the others are fed gratuitously. But these objections are not worth further consideration. There is not as yet any uniform and generally accepted system for the feeding of school children; we find such feeding only in isolated schools, and meals are provided for necessitous children only. The actual results of the institution have been admirable. In England, a law providing for the feeding of school children was passed in the year 1906. But this did not introduce a general national system of school feeding; the law was permissive merely, empowering the poor-law authorities and education authorities to organise private benevolence for this purpose, and, in the event of this latter proving insufficient, allowing a limited expenditure of public funds. The tendency of evolution is unquestionably in the direction of the introduction of gratuitous and general school feeding. But in the future, when the upbringing of children will be altogether better than it is to-day, this institution will be unknown. _Care of Young Persons after they leave School._--The necessity and importance of supervising young persons after they leave school are obvious from the fact that the period of the puberal development, the period immediately after leaving the public elementary school, and after passing from the family life to a life of freedom, is the most dangerous of all periods in the life of children of the poorer classes. The means to be employed for this purpose are the following:-- (_a_) The institution of special homes for young persons, where those with no regular homes of their own can board and lodge. Connected with these it is well that there should be employment bureaux and lists of recommended dwellings. (_b_) The institution of places for the occupation and amusement of apprentices and young workpeople of both sexes during their hours of freedom. (_c_) The arrangement of occupation for Sundays, amusing as well as instructive.