Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-04-06
BRITAIN STILL HAS
PLENTY FOR FOOD
People Of Limited Means Find
Easy to Live in Glasgow
Within Their Rations.
TO CULTIVATE ALL THE SOIL
By A, R. GRoH.

Great Britain is long way from
starvation according to newspaper:
received from Glasgow, Scotland, by
George ". Chandler Of The Bee.
Mr. Chandler was over there in
1909 to place,the plant of the Glasgow
Weekly Ne&s.a paper OF $4,000 cir
culation, on the economy basis. he
gets. the papers, together with letters
asking him questions on various prob
lens that come up in running the
plant. ,sl..... y,-,.- s.s
Here IS al, article in the Glasgow
News Of March 70, headed, s'War Ra-
tions Provide Comfortable Living" :,
People Of limited means are find.
ing it quite easy to live within their
tations,' says the article. Gin these
recipes very little meat, -four and
sugar is used, yet substantial din
ner is provided for all. ~, +" Is,
The menu shows dinners for a
week for family Of five at a total
cost Of fourteen shillings, about $3.50.
Cost of Dinners.
Here are two sample dinners:
"Monday--Broth, made with one
half pound boiling meat 40 cents /;
vegetables Is cents); barley u cents).
Second course, the meat eked out
with oatmeal pudding, potatoes and
gravy (20;cents9. !gs
"Thursday--Savory stew, made
with three.fourths pound stewing
beef go cents); vegetables a cents) ;
and served with plain boiled rice or
macaroni (6 cents). Sage pudding
sweetened with syrup and including
milk go cents)."
Another, Glasgow paper, the Post,
gives complete weeks menu Of
three meals Al day for a family Of
three at a total cost of $5.25. Each
days total cost for the three meals
for the three people is only rs cents.
You could hardly live that cheap in
Omaha. Here is one days menu as
sample:
"Breakfast--Oatmeal or maize
flour (corn neal porridge, served
with syrup-or milk az cents); tea,
toast with beef dripping (l0 centsl
"Dinner--Harieot bean soup e
cents); sausagc,bak E{20 cents, rice
or other milk pudding Is cents).
"Tea--Tea,e bread, nut butter. oat
cakes and scenes with syrup go
ccnts)."
Urges Use Of Land,
That Britain is taking steps to
make the yield OF the soil this sum-
mcr as great as possible il. shown in
articles and advertisenients One ar
ticle tells how to,rMake the. Most, of
Your Potato Patchs. :, II quotes the
prime minister as urging sll 10 use
their spare hours and spare bits of
land, so that they can look back in
after years and know that they did
their bit to win che, greatest Of cru
sades in history.N M ~
An advertisement calls upon every
body who "ean use a spade or . hoe
or massage horscN to Mback .'up the
men ia the trenches. Lloyd George
is qaoted Jas saying The farmers
coxld itcrszse, cyef NOV, by hum
dreds OF thousands OF tons the food
Of this country this year. One Of the
main obstacles is lack Of labor
OleomargariEes is advertised at 20
cents pound. Girls shoes. in an
sther advertisement, are $40 a pair,
up 10 size S.
OSher ads are for dyspepsia cures;
"how to start in the mali order bust
ness" wall paper direct from the
n,aaxfacturer; clothing on payments
Of 20 cents month; laying hens,
$l.25 each; agents wanted; bicycles
on payments Of $i.7s 1 month, and
ready made soups.