Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-09

Russia.
soldiers and officers, university pro-
! fessors and their families For the meal
they paid twenty kronen-and remember
exchange at this writing is 700 kronen
for 81
COLONEL GETS
PENSION OF 81.
talked to several OF these people.
A colonel and his wife have a pension
! Of / 400 a month. That's 81
Today I had a most remarkable ex-
perience-I lunched with the professors'
mess; that means the best scientific
| brains In Austria, and In some lines Of
study. almost the besk in the world
and the majority Of these men are now
| so poor that they are glad to eat the
! balanced ration provided to them through
! this mess, operated with outside as
! slstance, believe.
Next to me sat a world famous man
he put the slice Of bread provided for
| the meal into MS pocket. Il never eat
the bread, he said; Il take 1t for my
| breakfast"
| I gave him my slice He accepted II
| thankfully. Throughout the meal this
| man, who spoke English perfectly, en-
| tertained me with marvellous stories of
( Its scientific researches in the countries
/ OF the world. He cannot do any more re-
search work; he cannot afford the rail
road faro.
/ This luncheon was attended by Jane
/ Adams. on invitation Of Or. Pirquet.
( the internationally known expert In child
diseases. After the meal Miss Adams
accompanied DR.. Pirquet TO inspect the
feeding stations Of the American Relief
administration, with which she expressed
herself as delighted The association OF
man Of DR.. Pirquets fame and at
tsinments has been a stupendOus thing
for the hungry children OF Austria. Al
though he Is at head Of the great Vienna
children's hospital, he, through love Of all
children. consented 70 head the Austrian
section Of the child feeding and the work
In his.country has become the best known
in all OF Central Europe. by reason Of
the fact that the feeding is Pirquet's Own
system of nutrition, which has attracted
world wide interest
May / tell you an interesting bit Of
/ personal history Dr. Pirquet's grand
father. who was commandante Of the
household Of the Prince Bishop. and my
( own grandfather. Of the military house
hold Of Louis were both emigres to Aus
tria, during the French Revolution.
| Thanks be 10 goodness my own I'm
mediate ancestor went to America, while
Pirquet's remained in Austria. On the
strength Of this Or. Pirquet took time
to personally show me- through his mar
/ velous hosPital-/ don't believe there can
! be another like Il In the world
On yes about the luncheon menu
must tell you what wa ate. First there
was thin soup. Then a large portion
OF boiled rice favored with bacon fat.
some lettuce salad, a slice Of bread and
a roll with sugar on top and a CUP Of
cocoa. You ought to have seen the way
those men ate the rice They did NOT
leave grain. These men have meat
perhaps once month I'm their homes II
| Is fact that the intellectual people here
can afford meat very, very seldom.
I NO FRUIT SEEN
IN AUSTRIA.
Think Of great capital city where
an orange cannot be bought Where
there are no apples I have not seen
banana in Europe.
Imagine not being able 10 60 into n
store aud buy lemons. There are n few
on the corners very good And
further imagine buying few currea.s
in twisted bit Of paper. as we buy
sailed peanuts.
When | came to Vienna two weeks ago
there was no fruit Of any kind to be
bought. Now a little has been sent in
and is sold from tiny stands on the cor
neds. There are some cherries. apricots.
currants and today for the first time I
have seen some half ripe plums. The
fruit is sold mostly In quarter and half
pound lots. The price is 80 high that the
local people cannot buy.
! saw man awhile ago pick up out Of
the gutter half rotten cherry and ect
/ 1t. dirty as 1t was. That shows the fruit
hunger that must exist
One never goes on the street without
( seeing number of men eagerly search
ing every inch of the sidewalk They
are looking for possible cigarette ends.
! The day of my arrival an old man smoke
! to an American who left the train lust
/ in front Of me. He was asking for the
/ inch that remained of his cigarette Some
man or woman pOunces upon every scrap
Of paper thrown on the sidewalk
WOMEN PERFORM
MANUAL LABOR.
! l. is incredible, the hard labor the
women perform. RemodeUng is going
| on In this hotel. The bod carrying is all
done by women. This morning I watched
them carrying loads that bent them
down, and I wondered what such labor
on the part OF the mothers meant to the
race. The men do the skilled work-the
women the hard work.
The kitchens of Belvedere. the palace
of the Archduke Ferdinand, whose assas-
sination started the war. is being used
to cook food to feed 10000 poor children
Bow is that for melOdrama?
It is very nice kitchen I saw 1t this
mornlng-you will observe I have had a
busy day. The palace is so huge that |
cannot even approximate the size for
| you. II must cover acres. Has wonder
full gardens--in which the public was
sitting. I believe the gardens Were open
to the people during the imperial resi-
dence there. The staterooms-very COR
! geous--contain an exhibit Of the state
tapestries, said to be the finest collection
In the world, and worth untold millions.
/ was told by an Austrian that at one
period when the people were very hun
CRY it was seriously considered to sell
these tapestries to America. | have been
wondering who had enough money to buy
them. Well, I wish everybody at home
could see them.
HIKE By BISHOP.