The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-06

and be pleasant or grouchy just as
We feel. Many of the exclusive Lon
don clubs have made us honorary MEM
bers, and occasionally when we are in
the humor, we go TO one of these IA
nous clubs and spend an evening.
But this is not like going into a
strange home. You1l excuse me now, |
won't you? l have to get home and !
send off another lot of regrets
Light Eating in London.
The English householder is having
a hard time to adjust himself to re-
duced food, much harder than the
American, partly because of his simple,
almost monotonous tastes, partly from
the climate which seems to demand
heavy eating, but largely because the
constant discussion of food eNcites in
him an apeptite that rations cannot sat
| isfy. The reduction in his fare has
been, to a certain extent, voluntary
with him. Not so with the residents in
! family hotels where the managers have
shown an intense patriotism in con-
serving food. Although hotel prices re-
|
and vegetables are held down by the
food controller, these hotels are doing
out smaller and smaller portions TO
keep within rations, until it is the reg
ular thing to 80 to bed quite hungry
each night Upon all floors of our
hotel at bedtime, one hears a furious
cracking noise, the emergency attack
ON reserves of nuts. AS | wear one
of those sliding belts l cannot tell just
how many notches Of girth l have lost
since l came over from America last
summer. The common salutation among
friends here is, 'I say, old chap, you've
fallen off more than l have [ am
sure that if man were to advertise
an obesity cure his place would be
mobbed But we have a robust woman,
a new guest at our hotel and already
quite a scandal attaches TO her. She
demanded and got a second silver of
bacon for breakfast this morning. The
poor woman, by a human yielding to
an appetite in keeping with her bulk
has called down upon herself all the
odium of being a German sympathiZer
Dinner tonight consisted of carrot
soup. fish pie and parsnips, barley pud
ding and coffee II just happens that
the only vegetables in the world
dislike are carrots and parsnips; barley
j pudding tastes like improperly cooked
unseasoned oatmeal; never have
70 craved for fish, and as for strange fist
ii pie where they cannot be scru
tinized and considered. ! utter anath
| ln aN
ample of a certain woman spitefull,
I called the vacuum cleaner" becaus
of the swift, magical disappearance o
j. every crumb from her table, ! got ava
with every fragment Of that meal
u and seemed to like it, such are tn
= rigors of rationing.
j. awoke to find my wife poundin
ST ue on the back. She thought l wa
II choking to death but l had only bee
II dreaming Of warm, homemade roll
u soaking with fresh creamery butter
II a corn-fed American steak, grille
~ American style and just right-ham an
~ eggs -cornbread-navy bean soup-tha
Is was a heavenly dream.
IT The scandal involving the robu'
woman enlarges She asked for a
rs extra fragment of toast this mornin
o. and a second half-slice Of bread III
l. evening. Doesn't she know there's
1t war on, the ravenous creature" ever
m body whispers tonight, and shuns he
'd The vacuum cleaner" is a bit under su
US picion, too. one man. who isn't sur
lS believes he saw her snag several pioc
III Of cheese at dinner and do them up
II her handkerchief At any rate, 81
ne went directly to her room from dinn
ol and everybody just felt she was e
to joying that cheese secretly.
~ A disastrous day. Kidney, which
is, won't eat, for breakfast Stewed liv