New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-03
EMPIRES BEST GIVEN
FOR GERMAN WOUNDED
Picture Galleries and Palaces Dedicated to lher Comfort
Opera Singers Entertain and Whole Nation
Pets Fatherland's Defenders.

pronortion Of their brcnd tickets back
.o Tho government 30 that the surplus
may be granted TO families OF small
mems.
Tho bread ticket, IL must be under
s,ood does not pay for bread, but only
irdicateq tho amount that may be is
suoI preliminary 20 payment. Hence
NAM persons send money with the
tickets thcy return In order that the
moor may obtain bread without cost.
Food Prices Still Falling.
In K5ln rice was 70 pfennig5 N7i5
cents} pound at private sale. Il IS
now sold By the municipality ut just
half that sum.
In mid-April the city authorities Of
Aachen completed arrangements for
The sale Of potatoes At pfennigs "a
centsJ a pound. This arrangement in
startly brought the price down from 3
to pfennigs on a pound.
The potatoes are sold at the Turn
halle and at other municipal build
ings. and many shops also make the
sales on behalf of the government.
Every inhabitant is allowed TO buy ten
pounds Of potatoes day.
Amounted experts 70 give lectures and
demonstrations showing the poor now
60 cook 20 the best advantage. The cE-
ports make no charge for their SER
vices.
At the best hotels IN the large cities
the prices remain about what they
were before the war The long even
ing meal costs n dollar and a quarter,
exclusive Of wine, and II the diner
likes a sweet champagne he can buy a
quart of one Of the better German
brands for a couple Of dollars.
In the smaller communities tho IN
evitable euxieties caused by the war
are more keenly felt by the people
than in the capitals, and this produces
an ailment known as "war blues" To
n lady in Aachen one Of her townsmen
said few days ago:
Dear friend, If you feel apprehen-
slve and sad you must have a day IN
K6ln or Dusseldorf and see the con-
Gdonce and animation and the crowds
there. You viii come back to Aachen
cured"
Curing the "War Blues"
The lady followed the prescription
and saw the sights in kOln which ! de
ccribed in the first Of these three let
ters the crowded streets. the busy
ehcps end the thousands upon thou
sands Of soldiers. At the end OF her
holiday she said:
well. am not going to worry about
the war any more. After what | have
seen to-day know that my country Is
safe"
And she went back beaming.
As 20 German feeling toward the
United States, think ! can write vi tn
correctness. During the last forth ght
10 has shifted from downright anlmos-
i.y TO a lancuid sort OF contempt
IL seems TO me that Germany has
ceased to hope for q friendly attitude
on the part of our country and has rec
onclled herself 90 the fact that our
neutrality is more Of the letter than
of the spirit.
Toward Americans "a individuals,
however. the Germans continue kind,
and there is not an American CORE
spondent in Berlin who does not re-
ceive daily proof Of that in both oinclaI
and private circles.
As TO the admonition which many
Americans claim to have receive.
Don't speak that accursed English
language here have never heard II,
though | have 70 make frequent use or
my native speech.
I think aiIronts Of that kind I mean
the admonition in question depend a
good deal on the manner or the person
arronted. If in speaking the language
Of a hostile nation In Germany one
rubs il in and is loud and supercilious
I suppose one must pay the price, and,
as our countrvmen are not noted for
their reticence when they travel abroad
II il probable that a good many OF
them have had 90 pay.
The Germans are. nevertheless, at
heart r good natured and an obliging
people and profuse in the little civil
jies that make life so much easier to
live.