Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-10

menus. | had enough or them on the
! other side.
| or course, we never got any cakes.
The macaroons of which the Germans
are so fond and which usually are so
plentiful have become very scarce.
You can buy them, but they are $3.50
u pound.
They have n substitute for pepper
there, but IL is as good as nothing.
| don't know what IL Is made of, but
II doesn't flavor at all.
Making Dumplings.
One thing we did make that liked.
Our bread cards entitled us to so
much bread or flour. whichever we
| wanted-we could not have both.
| Sometimes we got flour--black flour
OF course; that is all there was. We
would get an egg and make a dough
! from the flour water and egg. Then
we would put bit of meat and an
| onion in water and boil II. When II
was boiling hot. we would drop the
dough in 1t by spoonfuls and maze
dumplings This dish was great
luxury tho, for 1t took our allowance
of meat flour and egg all at once,
but II certainly was good.
Cheese was rarity. once in a long
time We would be told that we could
have a portion of cheese. / have stood
five hours In line waiting for mine.
II would be less than one-fifth OF
pound when I got 1t. and often hard
and stale. but / did value II for II was
little bit different from the eternal
sameness of the things we usually
had.
When we got vegetables we rarely
/ got them fresh--or fresh fruits. They
always were evaporated, and very
hard. We would soak them In water
nj ~
hour, sometimes for two or three
hours the next day. They never tasted
like fresh vegetables or fruits. They
were rather ihsipid and tough.
III we could have secured good quail
ity of the things we did have TO eat.
II would not have been so bad But
| they were things that ordinarily, at
home we would have thrown out
How the very, very poor lived,
don't know. | heard that the govern
ment kept them.
Government Kitchens.
For the middle class. the people
who were not beggars and yet who
could not afford to pay the regular
prices for food the government es-
tablished a great kitchen In different
parts of the city / suppose the same
was done all over Germany. l am
familiar only with what was done in
Berlin.
In this kitchen were big kettles and
into these kettles was put n collection
OF the poorer qualities of vegetables,
the tops of garden truck. and all sorts
of scraps All this was made into
stew and twice a day the people who
could not afford to buy at the stores
| came here and paid 30 pfennigs.
about y cents. for a bowl OF this
Their bread. meat and potato cards
were taken away from them, of
course. so they neither could give
them to other people or get things to
eat on the side by means of them. 1
have seen the stew and believe | al
most would have eaten nothing than
that. But probably If 1t had had
nothing, l could have come to that.
1t was a nauseous mixture but
there We're no 'leavings' when those
poor people got thru with their bowls.
And these were not the beggars-they
were the people who, in ordinary
times, were accounted the moderately
well-to do.
A lot of the poor musicians and
| artists used to go there. for the war
struck these people very hard. A
great many of them had only enough
money to see them thru in peace
times, and when the war came they
were in hard luck.
We all used to divide with each
other as much as we could, but the
size of the portions the best-off of us
received made dividing almost an i'm
possible thing.
"Dutch Treats"
Those who went to these Kitchens
sometimes took pieces of bread that
had been given to them. Nothing
was served at the kitchen bat the
stew. 1t was clean and well cooked
enough, but that is the best that could
be said about 1t.
One of the very scarce articles In
l'erlin was shoestrings String Of
any kind was scarce, but one had TO
pay so cents pair for shoestrings,
even an ordinary quality.
One thing the war did bring for
ward-that was the equality of women
as regards paying their way. hen
young man took you into res
taurant on did not permit him TO pay
Tor your meal-you paid II yourself.
You never knew how near to his last
pfenning your best friend was.
In Germany. though, this method
prevails somewhat even in peace
| times. Unless a man is a relative, n
| fiance, or your husband, IL is best not
to let him pay for your meal. The
waiter may think you a "cocotte," a
light woman" If you do, and you
need not be surprised II he (the
waiter) will make some familiar re-
mark to you.
But, during war times this Dutch
treat" business extended to every
thing. Some of the American women
in Berlin had more money than tho
men who were not German, for they
Mould send home for monev ubila