New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-20
SIMPLE FARE NOW PRIDE
Of GERMAN HOUSEWIVES
p;uoxo,.ross Of system Worst Hardship of War Bread
Which Used To Be Delicacy-Preachers Use
Saving as Texts for Sermons
Rv JAMES o'DONNELL BENNETT


tho offender is admonished not TO Try
| II again. ,I...Lo..
/ ;ssrod for each person in connection
with the dwelling in which he sleeps
and in no other connection, no matter
/ Lo,v wanv hours Of the twenty-four ne
may spend elsewhere. L.
a dressmaker eating two meals day
/ with the household for which she is
sewing must bring her own bread l0f
/ her employer can give her none, WIN
/ ont depriving a member of the house
/ hold of his share of bread.
A maid servant who does not sleep
under her employers roof, but has an
arrangement by which the employe,
nrovides her with meals, still must
HING her own bread. because her
mother, having registered the giri as
/ eleepinc under the maternal roof' mas
/ already obtained bread tickets for her'
Hence when the servant brings her
bread TO her employers house the en-
ployer must pay her for H.
A workman who lives in Eloerteid'
over 6ftv miles from Aachen, comes TO
Aachen every Monday morning 10 take
nm his weeks duties and does not go
/ home until Saturday afternoon. But ne
must bring his bread from Elberteid'
because. "a he is n taxpayer there
Elberfeld has already given nm ms
bread card. Aachen cannot duplicate
the issue.
Bakers and the proprietors OF bake
shops who break any OF the rules gov
erning the amount OF hour ana the
proportion of potato and wheat nour
they are TO use are punished by haVlne
their establishments closed Tor from
one 10 three days or by hne OF ITO"
$3.50 TO $500.
Hotel proprietors are given bread
tickets for the average number OF
guests they entertain. Guests VINO
wish occasionally to dine elsewhere
must 20 TO the PORTER at their hotei
and ask for bread tickets, which they
then present at the restaurant OF their
choice. Without them they cannot
have bread with the meal. In the DIM
ing rooms of all the hotels placards IN
form guests of the arrangement.
At first many people thought that
one-half pound of bread n day-the al
lowance for each ndividual-wouldn not
be enough for a workingman. Ihey
have discovered, however, that hall
pound of bread is more than they sup
nosed. In some es-Frankfurt-am-
Main. for example-the bread is almost
white, the proportion Of potato flour re-
ouired to be used in particular dis
trict depending somewhat on the guam
tity of wheat -four in that district:
A few days ago Pastor Wolh, a
Lutheran clergyman of Aachen.
preached a sermon on the food situa-
ton. 1t is being circulated in pamphlet
form, and in it one finds the rallying
crv, "Ich muss und will den Staat
helfen." The women. he said. could
not 20 to war, but they could help by
economizing. The children could not
20 TO war, but they could help by eat.
/ ing their afternoon schLlttchen OF
bread and cheese without butter.
at may not taste quite as nice at
first" said the pastor, but 1t will be
| Just as nourishing. Always stop to
| think that for one pound of butter
eaten six litres Of milk were used.
/ Think of the babies, who must have
milk, and of the invalids. who ought TO
/ have il, and then you will be happy IN
+ the thought that you are helping the
state. which is your fellow men"
! Such is the truth about the much
/ discussed bread situation in Germany
no want, but increasing and patient
taking Of precautions.
As for the rest, life goes on pretty
much the same in these provincial cap
/ Itals Spring is in the air The Rhen-
! ish hills are touched with green and
! the fields are bright with daisies.