Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-12
Denmark.

correspondent who has been study
ing food conditions in the Scandinav-
ian countries draws the following COM
parison between conditions In Den
mark and Sweden: Though one Of
the last neutral countries to become
affected by the fuel, fo~S and drink
shortages and abnormal psices. Den
mark is fast beginning to experience
these troubles. Bread cards will
be introduced there soon. They
were introduced in Sweden early In
February and in Finland early in
March. Swedish bread cards provide
30 coupons n week, each emitting the
holder to purchase 81 grams (2.3
OunceS) of soft bread or 30 grams U.76
OunceS) of brown blended -four or 40
grams Obj ounceS) of hard bread or
biscuits. The total soft or ordinary
monthly bread allowance is 81 kilOs
(21 poundS). The Danes will get less,
namely, four kilos (S.S pounds) of
black bread and 30 kilos $50 pounds)
of white bread, or. If they bake ut
home. ga kilOs U,i poundS) of rye and
BIZ kilOs CO.. poundS) of white -four
Still Swedes envy the Danes the pow
er to buy white bread, as for Il month
past no white bread has been allowed
to be sold in this country. The only
kind that can be had is made Of an
unpalatable blend of various kinds Of
brOwnish meal, including barley. This
bread Is unpopular and everybody COM
plains of it. The Danish sugar ration
Ing Is to be cut on the next occasion
that sugar cards are issued. l learn
that In April the monthly permits will
be halved. Sugar and bread cards will
be supplied to foreign visitors when
they land in Denmark by the custom
house authorities. On March l the
Danish government abruptly stopped
the sale Of all alcoholic liquors. while
there was a national stock-taking to
discover the amount of alcohol and
barley there was In the country. A
Danish friend writes: ON Monday Of
this week the prohibition was abrO-
gated, but the government has great
~ raised prices. A bottle of common
gin In Copenhagen now costs 21h
crowns (75 cents), imported WHISTLES
8 crowns ($2.25) and imported brandies
8 crowns ($2.25). This Is trifling COM
pared with the % rubles ($l2.5O) for
whisky in Petrograd. The Swedish
butter shortage Is as great as II was
last fall. Usually butter IL unObtain-
able, and when persistent housewife
finds any the merchants refuse to sell
more than a quarter Of a kilogram
(abOut half pound). Prices Of wines
are rising every week. Germany has
stopped exporting wine and Sweden
does not get any more"
According to the latest dispatches,
Denmark's precariOus situation regard
ing fuel, which heretofore has been al.
most exclusively imported from Eng
land and Germany, has led to the In.
PRODUCTION In parliament of bill to ex-
plot home resources, forests. peat
Dogs and limited deposits Of Ignite
coal. The measure provides that own
ers not working these most inten-
sively must turn them over to the gov
eminent to be so worked, and author
ICES compulsion to enlist necessary Ia
Dor and the use Of troops. The coun-
try has been on the verge Of n fuel
famine for two months and only the
most stringent restrictions as to con-
sumption, including early closing for
business houses and restaurants, has
enabled 1t to tide over the crisis with
out shutting down lighting plants and
street cars.
Jacob Knudsen. the well-known Dan
ish author Is dead at his home In Birk-
erod, Denmark. He was born in 1853,
and was for many years school teach
er. Later he served ms pastor In the
liberal Grundtvig church and then
made his advent as an author. His
first work was historical drama,
'CrOmwells Daughter" which attract.
ed wide attention. His best-knOwn
novel Is ''The Old Pastor"
The hundredth anniversary Of the
birth Of the great Danish painter, p.
G. HOvgaard, will be celebrated this
year. One feature Of the celebration
will be an exhibition Of the painters
principal works at Charlottenborg, un-
der the auspices Of the Danish Art 80.
ciety.