"Caisse des ecoles du 18e arrondissement," Exercice de l'annee 1911, p. 34. Footnote 595: Proposition tendant a l'ouverture d'un credit de 10,000 francs en vue de permettre a la Caisse des Ecoles du XVIIe arrondissement d'organiser, a titre d'essai, une classe de garde prolongee jusqu'a huit heures et une cantine du soir, deposee par M. Frederic Brunet, conseiller municipal, Septembre 19, 1912. The methods of enquiry vary in the different _arrondissements_. Usually the enquiries are made by a paid investigator, but the numbers of children on the free list are so large that the investigation is as a rule very superficial. The necessity of keeping secret the fact that a child is receiving the meals free also militates against any effective enquiry into the parents' circumstances. The meals are granted for a school year, hence it frequently happens that a child continues to receive them long after the need has passed away.[596] The enquiries are, as might be expected, the least satisfactory part of the Paris system. In granting the meals the _Caisses_ usually take a generous view; it is held, for instance, that a man earning up to 30s. a week cannot adequately feed and clothe more than three children, and if his family is larger than this the _Caisses_ are prepared to assist him; while widows' children are invariably fed if application is made.[597] Footnote 596: "Organisation des Cantines Scolaires a Paris," report issued by Direction de l'Enseignement primaire, 3me bureau, 1912; "Necessitous Children in Paris and London," by George Rainey, in _School Hygiene_, November, 1912, Vol. III., p. 198. Footnote 597: _Ibid._, p. 198. An interesting feature of the Paris system is the provision of clothes. The municipality insists that the children shall come to school properly clothed; it is ready to provide the requisite garments, but it insists that they shall be kept clean and tidy. Frequent inspections are made for this purpose. The result is a notable raising of the level of cleanliness and tidiness in the schools, both the parents and the children themselves learning to take a pride in their appearance.[598] So far, indeed, from the work of the _Caisses_ having undermined parental responsibility, it would appear that the reverse is the case, the parents responding to the higher standard demanded of them. Footnote 598: _Ibid._, pp. 198, 200.