The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-02-14
HUNGER IN GERMANY; MANY
STAPLE FOODS NOT TO BE HAD
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three ounces a person. Oil is so ex-
pensive that it is out of the reach of
the great majority. The Associated
Press correspondent paid S3.12 for
about twothirds of pint of hazelnut
oil to be used for frying. Goose fat
costs $3.50 a can of seventeen and
three-ffths ounces and is the only fat
except vegetable oils that can be
bought without a card.
This insufficiency of fats in the daily
ration shows itself in an almost con-
tinuous feeling of hunger. The CORE
spondent experiencing this himself in
the first days of his visit remarked on
! it.
Il feel hungry all the time" said
the person addressed. Extending his
Investigations, the correspondent
heard similar expressions from all
sides. The most bitter complaints came
from the soldiers at home. When the
writer last visited the front in July
the mems rations were ample in every
respect, and there is no reason to be-
Elieve the same is not true today. The
soldier at home thus notices the differ
ence more keenly than do those who
have had gradually to accustom them
selves to one deprivation after an
Eother.
There is deadly monotony about
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 gees by the
name Of coffee. There is no real cof-
flee left. Some tea at high prices is
istill to be had, but the poorer people
drink brew of linden blossoms, rasp-
berry leaves or leaves of other shrubs
or trees. For the Second breakfast"
II 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, tiny piece of meat. Fish
takes the place of meat on other days
unless one can buy goose at s1.56 a
pound (they cost So pound just be-
fore Christmas) a duck at $1.44 a
pound or a hen at $1.08 to S1.20 a
jpound.
Comparatively little game comes on
the markets, apparently going to the
hotels and restaurants.
Supper is the problem in the average
household. Generally there are no po-
tatoes left over from noon and if there
are there is no fat in which to fry
them. The usual German supper be-
fore the war consisted of cold meats,
sausage, cheese, bread and butter and
beer. There is no meat, no cheese, and
no sausage, no butter on four or five
days of the week, and no more bottled
beer and many saloon-keepers refuse
to sell beer to be consumed off the
premises. The beer, moreover, is all
but undrinkable.
There remains then only bread and
fish, fresh, smoked, dried or canned
And here the problem of cost is added
to that of monotony. The writer paid
in Berlin $1.20 pound for ordinary
lake trout, and eighty-four cents g
: pound for small fresh water bass
: Dried sailed fish costs thirty-six cents
pound, and smoked eel $1.92 to $2.40
Smoked goose breast costs So to $3.50
pound, and boiled shrimp are seven
ty-two cents. Once in every four o.
five weeks the city authorities plac'
: on the market small tins of sardines
one of which may be bought on pre-
sentation of the municipal ''lebensmit
telkarte," or provision card. Eacl
family, no matter of how many mem
bers, has only one of these cards. TIL
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e be done here.
n Florida lands have risen greatly il
e value in the last few years, but ar
still sold for much less than the land
e of the more thickly settles
e Estates. They will continue to rise il
r value, and an investment in land il
this state, if made with ordinary care
4 is one that would. be sure to be profit
a 'able.4Times- Union.