The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-02-16

soon but the dealers are to be COM
PEELED to open each can before sell
ing it so as to force the buyers to con-
sumo it at once and not hoard it.
The weekly allowance of meat OF
all kinds in the greater Berlin mun1c-
ipalities runs from 5 IA to 8 81
ounces. The cheapest varieties COST
about 60 cents pound; the highest
- cents.
One of the most serious depriva-
tions continues to be lack of fats ana
oils. The weekly allowance OF butter
and margarine together IS a little less
than three ounces person. OIL is SO
expensive that it is out Of reach ut
the great majority. The Associated
Press correspondent paid $3.12 for
about tWo-thirds Of a pint Of hazeI-
nut oil to be used for frying. Goose
fat costs $3.50 a can of II 3-5 ounces
and is the only fat except vegetable
oils that can be bought without u
card.
This insufficiency Of fats in the dal-
ly ration shows itself in an almost
continuous feeling OF hunger. The
correspondent, experiencing this HIM
self in the first days of his visit, Re-
marked on it.
Hungry All the Time.
Il feel hungry all the time SAID
the person addressed.
Extending his investigation, the
correspondent heard similar express
sions from all SIDES. The most bitter
complaints came from soldiers al
home. When the writer last visited
the front in July the men rations
were ample in every respect ana
there is no reason TO believe the same
is not true today. The soldier at home
thus notices the difference more
keenly than do those vino have grau-
ually to accustom themselves to one
deprivation after another.
There is deadly monotony abou,
meals in the average household.
Breakfast generally consists of rolls,
marmalade, (often made Of pumpkins
and decoction of roasted acorns
rye, chicory and what not that goes
by the name OF coffee. There is NJ
real coffee left. Some tea at higr
prices is still to be had but the poor
er people drink brew of linden BIOS
SONS, raspberry leaves or leaves OF
other shrubs or trees. For the sec
ond breakfast" there is dry bread.
Dinner generally consists of boiled
potatoes with salt, some kind OF
boiled vegetable and, on perhaps two
| days of the week, a tiny piece OF
/ meat. Fish takes the place of meal
! On other days unless one can buy {,
goose at s1.56 a pound (they cos,
81 a pound just before Christmas
duck at $1.44 a pound, a turkey q,
S1.32 pound, or a hen at s1.03 to
! S120 a pound.
{ Comparatively little game comes OF
! the markets, apparently going to the
! nClelS ana restaurants.
The Supper Problem.
| Supper is the problem in thu
average household. Generally there
are no potatoes left over from moon
and if there are there is no fat il
which to Try them. The usual Ger,
man supper before the war consist.
ed of cold meats, sausage, cheese
bread and butter and beer. There is
no meat, no cheese, and no butter on
four or five days of the week, nc
more bottled beer and many saloon
keepers refuse to sell beer to be con.
sumed off the premises. The beer
moreover, is all but undrinkable.
! There remain then only bread and
fish, fresh, smoked, dried or canned
And here the problem of cost is ad-
ded to that of monotony the ,Associat.
ed Press correspondent paid in Berlin
$1.20 pound for ordinary lake trout
and 48 cents a pound for small fresh
water bass. Dried sailed fish costs
Sc cents a pound and smoked eel
S1.s2 to $40 Smoked goose breast
costs So to $3.50 pound and boiled
shrimp ~ cents. Once in every four
of five weeks the city authorities place
on the market small tins of sardines
one of which may be bought on pre-.
sentation of the municipal "leben.
smittelkarte," or provision card. Eacn