Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-03-20


for certain ailments. The bread or
dinarily consumed among the working
classes is of two kinds. The most gen.
eral Is heavy. close kind made up
In shape not unlike an ordinary Ameri-
can brick but larger. 1t Is of dark
brown color. baked of rye, ground
wet, and costs about cents a pound
The other bread ia lighter in color, a
larger and differently shaped loaf, and
costs cents pound. Good coffee
costs from 80 to 80 cents a pound
Many workmen buy a mixture of cheap
coffee and chickory at 20 cents to 25
cents a pound, or what is called malt
coffee at 6 to 8 cents. Butter is little
used at ordinary meals. A substitute.
butter oil, sells at 16 cents a pound,
and oleomargarine from 10 to 25 cents
Sugar sells for to 6 cents pound.
1t is beet sugar, granulated and weak
sweet stuffs. If they are really sweet
which is not often in Germany-are
dear. Milk. sold from central diaries.
Is about 3 cents pint.
Vegetables are cheap, potatoes,
common food, particularly SO. The
onion and the cabbage. German favor
ties, are inexpensive and, as might be
expected in a land of highly organized
education. a delicious cauliflower,
which Mark Twain called a cabbage
with college education, is sold for
three cents. Wood is bought in small
bundles a few cents worth at a time.
and coal, usually in the form of bril-
quettes, coal dust moulded into brick
shape, is not of high cost, except near
the mines, but Is of small heating
value.
All these prices are 20 per cent or
more higher than ten years ago. Cloth
ing, rather inferior grade, is 10 to
10 per cent higher and rents. except
In favored localities, are 20 to 80 per
cent. higher. Official figures on file
in the Rathaus or Town Hall at Mu-
mich show increases in five years of
from 10 to 20 per cent. in the prices
of all foodstuffs.
Savings Deposits Increasing.
The standard of living is increasing.
The average man in Germany. France,
Austria Hungary and Great Britain. as
in America, is not content to live on
the same level of expenditure as did
his. fathers. Despite this higher stand
~ an $50 - ,a,om To, 800
AGO the savinps deposits in postal and
other hanks in Great Britain averaged
81 25 per capita less than TODAY. Dur
ing the same period the savings de-
posits in German savings banks in
creased from eight to fifteen million
marks, two million to three and three
fourths million dollars. and the num-
her of denositors from S.670. 7O9 to H.
s2.14O.
What in true I'm this regard of Great
britain and Germany ia true of France.
Austria-Huneary. Holland. Belgium.
In all these countries the cost of liy-
ing has Increased tn a marked degree
hut at the same time there has been
n measurable increase in the sayings
of the people as we'll as in the stand
ards of living. Over against this must
he considered the 40. 600 UNEMPLOYED
in Berlin the strikes in Belgium. and
Great Britain and the widespread
and ill.concealed distress for lack of
food that every great Europeaa city
shows as cold weather comes. Yer
amt so 'ungry wen it's 'ot." raid a
crinnIed workman in a London mark.
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