Following up the work of this Commission the Government appointed special 

 committees or commissions for the storing and distribution of food products, and 

 appointed another committee closely to follow the working out of their recommen- 

 dations and to submit from time to time suggestions for variations in the regulations or 

 the making of new enactments. 



The Ten Commandments 



(1). Don't eat more than necessary. Don't eat between meals. 



(2). Consider bread sacred. Use every little piece. Dry bread makes good soup. 



(3). Be economical with butter and fat. Use jam instead of butter. Most of the 

 fat we get from abroad. 



(4). Use milk and cheese. 



(5). Use much sugar. Sugar is nourishing. 



(6). Boil potatoes with the skins on; then nothing is lost in peeling. 



(7). Drink less beer and alcohol; then the supply of rye from which these are made 

 will be greater. 



(8). Eat vegetables and fruit. Plant vegetables in every little piece of earth. 

 Be economical with preserved vegetables. 



(9). Gather all you don't eat for the animals. 

 (10). Cook with gas and coke. The ashes from coke make good fertilizer. 



Moral — Obey these ten commandments and economize for the Fatherland. The 

 rich must also follow these commandments. 



A DUTCHMAN WITH THE ENEMY 



The London Times Weekly, January 21st, 1916. 



"In Munich things are dear and bad. The sausages and the ingredients with which 

 the food is prepared are not made more palatable by the frequent employment of 

 substitutes. This is noticeable not only in the case of ordinary dishes, but also, and 

 more particularly, in the various confectioners' shops. The pastry evidently contains 

 a very large amount of potato meal. As for prices, I paid 4s. for one hors d'oeuvre, 

 consisting of a herring, a couple of radishes, a small piece of celery, half an egg with a 

 sausage, and a couple of shrimps, which would certainly not cost more than Is. in 

 Holland. The price of beer has gone up more than 40 per cent., while the quality has 

 gone down very much. Eggs cost 23^d. to 3d. each. Here we made our first acquaint- 

 ance with the breadcards. We got breadcards from the head waiter at breakfast (175 

 grammes of bread each). This gave us a right to five miniature loaves. The small 

 German loaves are well known, but these were extra small. The bottom was 

 hardly larger than a five-mark piece. It has frequently been proved that even this 

 small quantity of bread is not entirely unmixed with substitutes. Whether the quantity 

 of bread people get is sufficient is a matter of doubt." 



"Much female labour is employed in Vienna. I saw women doing the hardest 

 navvies' work and busy as street cleaners and tram conductors. Public life, speaking 

 generally, seems to go on in the usual way. The theatres are crowded. Naturally the 

 feminine element is far and away predominant. One does not see much mourning 

 worn, and to go by externals one would think, sitting in a theatre, that there was no 

 war at all. There is something inexplicable in the psychological attitude of the people. 



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