Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-14

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s3,75o,000,000, Lowell MelIett.
designed to help restore ordinary
world trade and put Great Britain
back on her feet for the benefit of
everybody concerned-for the "tan~
gible. firm gains for the United
States and the rest Of the world" as
Secretary Byrnes expressed it.
The .Englishwoman, whose hus-
band is a $4,000-a-year government
official, continued: 1--WE live mostly
on fish which is fresher and more
edible than it has been for five
years, but there has been none in
the shops this week. Our dinner
last night consisted of artichoke
soup, jam omelet made with de-
hydrated egg, bread and margarine
and cocoa made with water, as we
go two or three days week without
milk.
One Fresh Egg Month.
1--WE are getting one fresh egg per
month and the equivalent of II de-
hydrated eggs each eight weeks.
Our meat Is still "a cents worth a
week and by frugal treatment makes
three main dishes. u, S. canned
meat is now unobtainable and costs
II out of total of 20 points per
month If it can be found. A small
parcel of something to eat would be
most welcome thing, i.e., a 12-oz.
tin of SPAN or lib. tin of pork
sausage meat. Do you have canned
cheese? Our 2-oz. ration just does
for Saturday supper. ...-
LAS for our clothing situation
well, we make out. I spend hours
patching and mending and making
over. Six years is heck of time
to wear the same clothes! Haven't
had a new dress for two years, ex-
cept for cotton one I made from
pink sheet this summer. slept
naked all summer to save my much
needed nighties for the winter. Like
wise I went bare-legged-as did
every one else.
you see, our coupons are only
sufficient for one pair of stockings
per month and we have to buy house
linen and all fabrics from the same
coupons. I am solving the raincoat
problem with a noncoupon plastic
material. which I'm making up my
SELF. 1t should look quite snappy.
I really would appreciate some lin
gerie material of hard-wearing
kind, enough for a slip or a nightie-
something plain that I can en-
broider to make it exotic!
Years of "FutiIity."
six yards would make panties
as well. Please don't send anything
luxurious, as I'd faint after all these
years of 'futility,' which is the popu-
lar name for the: items branded
utility whose wearing performance
Is just crazy. aside from the fact
that they don't At It Is past joke
when the manufacturers make &c.
inch hip sizes barely long enough for
a5-ft. person. have to buy 40-inch
hips to get sufficient. length and
then alter the damn thing!
"I have lost an inch all around
since July, but we prefer to 60 little
hungry to eating some Of the muck,
being convinced that surfeit of such
items, including sausages, is largely
responsible for the enormous in
crease in duodenal ulcers in this
country-something like 100000
cases, I've been told.
IT'S the better halls birthday. ]
gave him new pajamas, so he's stay
ing in bed and wearing them, as he
has laryngitis or something. He
feels wretched, but its not much use
getting the doctor unless ones on
the way out. There are so few doc
tors for civilians and they're not in
terested in small ailments unless one
can stagger to the overcrowded
offices. The government allows one
doctor to every 10000 civilians.
We're terribly tired and we've
practically no coal.
Apart from the fact that we no
longer stand a chance of being blown