Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-16
VIENNA RESIDENTS ARE FORGED BY WAR
 TO MEAGER DIET
Bread Ticket System is Ex- plained; Cereal and Meat Foods Consumed by Sol diers in Large Quantities.

VIENNA. Jan. 15.-tCorrespondence of The Associated Press).-Bread tickets and two "meatless" days a week suggest the verge of famine to the person not familiar with life in the localities where such precaution- ary measures are being applied Vien- na and the greater par. of Austria are at present subject to the limitation in ! food which the bread-ticket wheat bread prohibition and meatless days | imply. But the fact is tha. nobody is deprived of anything by these regula- : tions. People eat as much as before with the difference that some of the | things they eat have been prescribed The bread ticket system allows 1 every person three rations daily each of 70 grammes of rye bread, or 21O l grammes. not quite a half pound. for 1 the day. Persons feeling the need of more ferinaceous food can augment | this apportionmeht bv buying wheat cake and pastry in the restaurants and cafes, and. if still unsafi>liCn after nat can have ar unlimited uantity Of ''nockerln" dumplings-for which the Austrian kitchen is justly famous, or he can order a dozen portions of "schmarn," another Austrian dish of fame. At pinch the waiter may be bribed into increasing the bread ra- tion,"
 It may be asked what, under such conditions is the value of the bread ticket arrangement. The manager of a large Vienna restaurant supplied the answer
 The bread ticket prevents the waste of bread, which formerly obtained" he said. We were in the habit of put ting baskets with rolls and cut bread on the table. Many of our patrons could start to eat as many as four rolls and not finis ha single one. The re
 mainder had to be thrown into the swill barrel. Right now flour is too
 scarce to be fed to pigs"
 ''meatless" day in Vienna and Au. | IS ly "beef-porkless" day, and not even
 that altogether. Butchers and restau
 rants may on "meatless'' or fleisch
 lose" days sell any Kind of meat with
 the exception of fresh beef, veal and
 pork. Picked and preserved beef
 veal and pork may be sold, however
 so may fresh mutton and lamb, every
 kind of poultry, fresh and preserved
 game and fish. It cannot be said that
 the meatless day works hardship on
 anybody. Fresh beef and pork can be
 bought the day before for the meat
 less" days.
 But what really has hit the Wien nese hard is the lack of whipped cream
 without which they formerly could no drink their coffee. Now only plain ol
 condensed milk may be had.
 . Back of these slight deprivation: lies the fact that hundreds of thou sands of farmers and farm laborer. now under arms can not be both. sol dfers and food producers. at the sam,
 time. Though the older men, womer : and children have done their best tt keen the crops growing, here and ther,
 with the questionable assistance Q Russian and Serb prisoners of war, tn, } result has not been equal to that O : normal times. In addition to this tn, } army itself has drawn heavily on tn } country's meat and flour stores. Ow B ing to their great bulk and relativel,
 low food values. vegetables can not b. [ taken to the front to each man in tn ? proportions of vegetables. meat an, P cereal food he eats when at home. An