Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-24

IlS Su-pTlCeQ, out we COulQ DuN
The lettuce we would cook in its
own moisture. put II in skillet, put
on a lid, and let II cook slowly down
until It was just like spinach. II
took six or eight heads of lettuce to
make enough green's for one per-
son.
1t was tasteless, though. for the salt
in Germany has no flavor. 1t is i'm
possible to get pepper or any other
seasoning. So one can imagine what
IT would be like to make a meal OF
spinach or lettuce cooked in this
way, without seasoning, with only 2
tiny dab of butter. with no meat and
with one piece of rour. black bread
to make IL tasty"
ELEPHANT MEAT is TASTY.
But my elephant meat experience
was unique. There IS a very fine zoe
in Liepsig, and I and a girl friend
a newspaper correspondent, saw the
sign in restaurant as we were
walking along the street. Elephant
meat here" We went in and got It
paying 70 cents for a very small por-
tion and two tiny potatoes.
The meat was good, tasting a little
like heefsteak, although with q little
BIT of wildness about ii which re-
minded me OF venison. 1t was very
veiny and rather tough There was
no fat. 1t was not until after 1 had
eaten II that I learned the animal
had died-from starvation, probably
and, sooner than waste II, the. people
ate II. Some OF the residents oi
Leipzig objected. but others said they
may as well eat II as eat other things
horse meat for instance.
But horse meat II good. 1t, too, Is
tougher than beef, but IL has n good
rich taste. certainly would not
want TO eat II. only through neccs-
sIty, but many good meal l have
made of IL.
When you take your meat card to
get your allowance. you are not per.
mitted TO make a choice OF what you
want. You take Just what the butcher
gives you. Sometimes IL is so tough
you only can boil II. sometimes Il
can be roasted, IL you have enough
FIRE.
though, preferTlng t. go hungry-that
was ground meat. You did not know
what might be in It. I would not
have been surprised had they put the
rats the Germans are dreading will
appear yet on their tables. or cats
or anything else.
BUYING CHOCOLATE.
On this trip with my girl friend.
which we took just before we were
Tnterned" in Berlin, the little tow,
of Leubech. stands out in my memory,
almost with a halo around II. That
was where / bought the nrst candy
I had had in two years.
Leubach IS a little town. almost \
village, noted for nothing in the
world. containing nothing of interest,
but I never will forget 1t. We were
walking along the street when we
saw, in shop window, cakes OF
chocolate We hardly could believe
our eyes.
We walked in and asked the price.
and we bought some. We were per
mItted each. only one small piece,
about what would be bought for IL
cents here-we paid 80 cents for -.
gladly.
We walked out of the store. around
the block and back again and each
bought another portion. Out we
went, around the block again, and
each bought another portion. Out
we went in our d.zzy round, thank
fully clutching the precious choco-
late we already had. our minds fun
OF hope of greater quantities to come,
our eyes watching for some German
official to come up and arrest us.
Six times we walked in that little
store and, bought chocolate until the
patience of even that good d-natureL
shopkeeper vanished and, when we
came in the seventh time, he said
sernly, 'Verboten."
Copyright, 1917, Pittsburg Press)