Evening star., 1923-01-28

which they cannot commercially ex-
ceed.
THERE is even forced economy. All
i wheat flour must be bolted at 80
per cent of the wheat content, which
will economize 100000 bushels of
wheat. But the French bread will
not be white, Also, French millers
may not issue wheat flour until it
has been mixed with 10 per cent of
rice flour or rye -four or the two to-
gether. 1t makes another economy
100000 bushels OF wheat for the
crop year. This Is a very different
story from that of certain people lik-
| ing rye bread. Here an entire popu-
lation Is forced to accept the mixture.
Farmers are forbidden to export rye.
French farmers do not give milk to
pigs while city babies starve; but
having had good prices for rye in
certain foreign countries-and now
being forbidden to export rye-they
may also not export any kind of fod-
der, lest they might, perhaps. be
tempted to feed rye to cattle. These
are straws which show how the wind
blows.
Look you. Here's another: Rogue
fort cheese has ceased to appear on
the French market. although French
folks crave to eat 1t. A delicious
cheese it is, particularly French.
made from sleeps milk mixed with
aromatic herbs. But French consum-
ers simply will not pay it's price; they
are restricting their expenses. So
French sheep raisers fatten lambs in
stead on their same mothers milk
and every one gets more lamb for his
money and more money for his lamb.
Here, you see, is not a sodden,
angry, failing people, risking the ruin
of whole sections for revenge, but
a straightforward. going concern,
minutely cutting down expenses to
repair wounds received in the house
of it's friends. The French will get
along somehow. What resolute, silent,
plodding man gets sympathy? 1t is
the complaining ones who get sym
pathy!
n EME. D-'S mother still has an
lf1 income from investments. This
winter she bought her daughter a
5,000-franc fur mantle-the old one
being just gone to pieces. Also, Nine.
D could not buy any kind of
fur for herself. although her hus-
band made his 10000 francs per year
before the war.
Nine. ID--'s mother keeps up her
"afternoons"-first and third We'd
nesdays. Last week, among eight
In YoIl he
there was only one who had a serv-
ant girl. Mamma has her femme de
menage two hours in the morning
(charwoman, seldom given meals,
who comes in for francs to francs
per hour to polish off the heavy
work). Me, I'm doing it all, with the
charwoman four mornings in the
week. There was a really old lady
who does every bit of her fat alone
Mamma told me about the comman-
dant and his lady. She went to take
tea with them and met the comman-
dant bringing in the milk and the
wood, while his wife was out to fetch
the cakes. Each one of those at
mammals told her adventures All
are eating up capital, the least possi-
plc---1 IHlHS never QOHe III france De-
fore in OUT times! I know three
ladies who have gone out working.
Others are renting furnished rooms.
They hate TO do It; but what will
you?
/ have told about the fur mantle.
1t is capital. Her mother gave it.
She who wears 1t does her own house
work, and my mother asks her In
as often as she will accept cit Is our
neighbor) to get the nourishment of
a square meal. That day we have
roast beef filet
Nine. D---s French landlord has
not been pauperized. know. He Is
our own. He has tried all sorts OF
tricks to raise the rent of these flats
above the 40 per cent since 1914 Cor
rental accepted since), which the law
fixes as maximum. On third of the
flats he Is getting 60 to 20 per cent
above their 1914 rental. Nine. D
fights for her own, a moderate 1914
rent He cannot put her out, although