The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-04-04
HOW MANY EGGS
A HEN MUST LAY
GERMAN KULTUR ATTEMPTS TO
REGULATE DAME NATURE.
HORSE MEAT GROWS POPULAR
French Show Thrift In Providing
Clothing For children--Enslish
Tommies Bring About Changes
In French Architecture.

With the French Armies, April 2.
System, . Method and Organ
ization" which constitute the basic
principles of "Kultur," to say moth
ing of universal, obligatory serv-
iee,r which is the cardinal principle
of Prussian Militarism, have just
been introduced by the Germans
amongst the poultry of Alsace-Lor-
raine
A copy of an order which regulates
the minimum number of eggs that
a hen must lay has just come into
the hands of the French military au-
thorities
Under the terms of this order ev-
cry inhabitant OF Alsace-LorraineI
who keeps poultry must turn over tol
the German gendarmes between
January Is and September 10, fifty
eggs for eacn hen owned
Failure to comply with this new
regulation is to be met with drastic
punishment.
The only point on which the order
is not clear is, in case a hen fails to
hook up with Mother Nature in such
a manner as to lay fifty eggs in the
time limit ahowed, whether the hen
herself or her Alsacian owner is to
be held responsible.
Old Horses Make Best Steaks.
Paris, Apr. England is begin
ming to talk about eating horse
flesh as an unpleasant but possible
eventuality !of the future. In France
there has never been the same preju-
dice against horse meat and the horse
has been b recognized and much
used article of diet among the less
wealthy. Horse steak, finely minced,
is widely prescribed by French ply
sicians, TO be eaten raw as tonic
by weak persons and sickly children.
In Paris and its suburbs there are
about one thousand butcher shops
where only horse meat is sold, and
their average trade is four or five
horses each week. They sell moth
ing but horse meat. because the law
forbids the sale except in special
shops But they do not hide shame
facedIy up back streets. There are
several within stones throw of
the Madeleine and half dozen with
in easy shopping distance of the
American embassy.
Shops Painted Red.
The Paris horse butcher is so little
ashamed OF his calling that he paints
his shop a brilliant red and puts a
gilded horses head outside sa sign
All his. meat comes from a spcci3l
horse slaughter house at Vaurigard
where the butcherfng is conducted
under rigid municipal supervision
II is a mistake, according to Paris
experts, TO suppose that the younger
the horse the better the meat The
reverse is said TO be true-a tleast
horses years old and upward are
preferred and below that age the
meat is aid to be tough ands unfiav-
oTed
The price of the best cuts of horse
meat in Paris is at present from
eighteen cents to fifty cents pound,
having doubled since the war.
CASTOR Puttees For Children.
Paris. April 3.-Another item in
the thrift program of the French is
in the clothing of their children. III
was soon discovered by the poorer
people that soldiers puttees, when
cleaned and repaired, are quite suit
able or children's legs, taking the
place both of underwear and warm
stockings, provided they are wrapped
properly
Most of the boys and girls wear
French puttees Of sly blue, of course. |
The few thar get the English brown
are straightway made proud and |
naughty "Je suis un Tommy" say
the boys as they swagger about.
The old custom of dressing boys
in Bingham aprons, TO protect their
coats and ants from wear, is contin.
ued zealously.
Tonnnies Are Fresh Air Fans.
Paris. April .. INTELLECTUALLY
there has been little change in the
French villages back of the lines and
not in the line of fire or pillage.
The single change perhaps, has
been the general addition of dormer
windows to second story bedrooms
They probably can be called dormer
windows although they are but Sits
cut in roofs covered with little win
dow son 'hiAges4in other words, ven
tiEatofs biaaTn sdr iEr
The Tommies are responsible for
this innovation all over, northern
France The Tommies are billeted
IN these little tile or thatched-roofed
buts where the custom of ages has
made the sleeping rooms as air-tight
as possible. Early in 1916 il is said
that a Tommy suggested 10 madame
and monsieur that he would Xix cal
small window suit in the roof. forl
which h ewould bear all expense.
but you win not be able to sleep
with the wind coming i'm protested
madame synpafhetically
But the one-foOt dormer window 2