The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-09-04
RESTRICTIONS ON
BREAD USE HITS
|PARISlANS HARD.
Curtailment Of Amusements
4. Also Is Inconvient to
French.

Paris Sept 4.-Firmly resolved as
they are to submit to any sacrifice to
ensure victory. the Parisians have
shown far more passive resistance to
limitations of bread and afnusements
than to any of the many restrictions
that they have to endure. At one
time, in order to economic lighting
and coal, the theatres were closed
two nights a week and movies were
cut down by. several shows. This re-
gulation very soon Quietly dropped
out of observation and theatres, mu-
sic halls, and cinemas resumed full
time operation. 1t is true that it was
vaguely understood that no place Of
Entertainment should use more light
ing and heating during the seven days
81 week than it had during five. but
this Yas merely a way of saving the
face Of the authorities who had made
the regulation.
As for bread, the war began by
robbing the Partisan of his little rolls
and crescents which he was convinced
was the only civilized form of taking
the days first meal. Then it took
away his fancy bread and now the
last straw, it has taken away white
bread altogether. leaving him a
brown substance with a. very hard
crust which covers doughty and in
ldigestible inside, which SO recalls his
own description of German x 4
bread that he blsuhes when he re.
calls his brilliant witticisms on the
subject during the first year Of the
war. ,es.
Madame Elsa Poulle, a, lady who
earns her living by selling vegetables
from a pushcart, had a perfect de-
Tense the other day. when summoned
for insulting the police. Its all the
fault of the nasty saw-dust bread
she declared. ut won't digest and
you have to drink" Unfortunately she
was not before a jury. but a. magis.
trate. who. had to support officia
bread, and SO. fined her a dollar
| With bread reduced to the pres
emit unpopular quality, although some
bakers make it quite good, the oppo.
sition to the last stage in bread regu.
lating, the bread card, has hardly ex
listed THE unhappy Partisan, wht
i has quite feresworn his habit OF de.
manding more bread. has a secre
4 hope that bread cards may effec
Isuch an economy that he may ono,
more be allowed his beloved whit,
bread, and after his recent expert
lence he is quite prepared to limit hi
consumption severely, IL the reduces
allowance is only of good quality.
4 The Official Journal. has JUS
published the decree regulating thu
making and consumption of bread
i and explaining how the bread card
I will operate when they come into US
next october. The decree is yer.
long and very complicated, and doe
not read as If it will be workable ii
practice. Children from one year t,
six are allowed two-thirds of a poun,
J OF bread a day. Everyone above si
years can have 1 lilo pounds.
I'm all hotels and restaurants" tn
decree reads, "bread must be counte
separately and only be served i
/, slices at one cent each"
. Bread cards will be in duplicate
; one to- be retained by the bread-eate
and the other to be deposited wit,
the baker. Any baker selling fres
bread, or bread not made with regu
lation flour, will have his ALLOWANCE
suppressed for a-month.