Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-28
By Herbert COrev

written III Paris after a two weeks
tour through Germany, during WHICH
Mr.. Corey travelled twelve hundred miles,
saw many cities and interviewed leaders
from Hindenburg to Haase.)
NJ EVER in my life did L spend so much
VI money for food during the two
weeks l spent in Germany.
Ihis was particularly jolt to me because
Of the contrast it afforded to my last pre-
vious visit On the day that 1 left Berlin, in
April, 1915, had two-mark luncheon at a
popular priced restaurant the Inter den
Linden. At that time the world believed that
Germany was rapidly starving to deth. The
British papers said So every day. When l
told the story of this luncheon 1 found that
in some quarters l disbelieyed But
here is what [ bought for two marks
nominally fifty cents:
A rich soup, three heavy meat courses, two
vegetables and dessert. | did not touch
the third meat course at all because 1 had
not looked at the menu when sat down and
had eaten in the belief that I could have but
two meats. When the third course was
brought on 1 gasping. A canary seed
would have SuffOcated me- y
CONDITIONS GREATLY CHANGED
Nowadays, when in some quarters it is
thought that Germany, true to her policy of
falsehOOds, has deceived the world about her
food supplies, that luncheon could not be
bought at any price in any public place in
Germany. 1t could be obtained in private
room at an exorbitant price, but the nrice
would be bankruptcy. 1t is not possible to
get enough to eat at any one of the table
d'hote meals served in Berlin.
In spite of the fact that we bought the
best food could buy, and all of it we
wanted, the diet in Germany had it's effect
upon the members of our party. Lyon de-
clared he felt weak and tired and at every
opportunity craWled into bed and went to
sleep. Smith suffered from an intestinal dis
turbance throughout his stay Eyre and I
both lost flesh Yet our lunches cost us from
four to six dollars and our dinners averaged
about eight dollars-for food alone.
This condition in Berlin CAME as q shock
to us. When we crossed the line at Treves
we got very satisfactory luncheon for five
marks 1t comprised soup and a good meat
course. At Cologne we were able to live
we'll and at Frankfort almost luxuriously At
CasseI our table was we'll Set but there Eyre
and I lapsed into sybaritism and extrava-
gance. We wanted eggs for breakfast. Eggs
are out of print in Germany The states al
lowance per person is twenty-five eggs a
vear-half an egg a week-but even then
the one entitled to his bi-weekly egg is often
unable to get it. Some f1end in human form
has made love to the chicken rancheress and
the egg.
EGGS THIRTY CENTS EACH
eve have no eggs" said the headwaiter
at Cassel, very firmly. eve never have
eggs
get us eggs,' I said E'But the eggs must
be fresh. No ersdtz egg, mlnd you.
The mans eyes frightened. By and by he
came into the dining room with four eggs,
fresh that morning, and actually fried IN
butter The cost was but five marks, only
trife more than thirty cents an egg They
were rdiculously cheap, but then we had re-
sorted to shameless bribery. There are few
people in Germany today who can resist the
lure of chocolate. The headwaiter at Cassel
told us he could sell the cake we gave him
for twenty marks nominally five dollars
but that he would not
81 haven't tasted chocolate for four
years. said he.
By the time we reached Berlin we had dis