The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1917-04-21
Denmark.

~ correspondents WHO nhS Dc<T S'uuy'
ing food conditions In the Scandinav-
ian countries draws the following com
parfson between conditions In Den
mark and Sweden: Though one OF
the last neutral countries to become
affected by the fuel, food and drink
shortages nnd abnormal prices, Dem
mark Is fast beginning to experience
these troubles. Bread cards will
be introduced there soon. They
were introduced In Sweden early I'm
February and In Finland early In
March. Swedish bread cards provide
30 coupons a week, each emitting the
holder to purchase 65 grams (2.3
ounces) Of soft bread or 80 grams GIG
ounces) Of brown blended flour or 40
grams Q.31 ounces) Of hard bread or
biscuits. The total soft or ordinary
monthly bread allowance is o. kilos
81 pounds). The Danes will get less.
namely, four kilos (8.8 pounds) Of
black bread and SO kilos (S.5 pounds)
Of white bread, or, II they bake at
home, 8.4 kilos IA pounds) of rye and
3.12 kilos (9.2 pounds) Of white -four.
Still Swedes envy the Danes the pow
er to buy white bread, as for 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 1t. The Danish sugar ration
ing Is to be cut on the next occasion
that sugar cards are issued. j learn
that in April the monthly permits will
be halved. Sugar and bread cards VIII
be supplied to foreign visitors when
they land In Denmark by the custom
house authorities. On March ] the
Danish government abruptly stopped
the sale of all alcoholic liquors, while
there was national stock-taking 10
discover the amount of alcohol and
Danish friend writes: On Monday or
this week the prohibition was nbro-
gated. but the government has great
ly raised prices. A bottle Of common
gin In Copenhagen now costs "a
crowns (73 cents), imported WHISTLES
o crowns (s2.25) and imported brandies
8 crowns (S225). This Is trifing com
pared with the % rubles (S1o.JO) for
whisky In Petrograd, The Swedish
butter shortage is as great as II was
last fall. Usually butter is unobtaifI-
able. and when a persistent housewife
finds any the merchants refuse 10 sell
more than quarter Of kllogram
(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 precarlOus 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 n bill TO ex-
plot home resources. forests. peat
hogs and limited deposits Of Ignite
coal. The measure provides that own
ers not working these most iDten-
eminent Ia be so worked. and author
ICES compulsion to enlist necessary 10
| Dor and the use of troops. The coun-
! try has been on the verge Of "a 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 II to tide over the crisis with
out shutting down lighting plants and
street cars.
Jacob Knudsen. the well-known Dan
i,,h author Is dead Mt his home In Birk
erod. Denmark. He was born in 1858
and was for many years school teach
er. Later he served as pastor In thu
liberal Grundtvig church and ther
| made his advent MS an author. Hi
first work was n historical drama
"Cromwell's Daughter" (which attract
ed wide attention. His best-knOwI
novel Is '"rhe 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 tho painters
principal works at CharlottenbOrg, un.
der the auspices Of the Danish Art SO
-lety.
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