A "CROCHET KING"

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2540, 14 August 1915, Page 11

A "CROCHET KING"

Many energetic Red Cross workers here are put to shame by. a popular business man (states a writer in tho Sydney "Telegraph"). Tho man in question is a good all-round sport, who in boyhood broke a leg so badly that a long ' convalescence was the result. During this convalescence he not only

Furthermore, the bakers'' hare proved singularly "inefficient, and are- incapable of producing a nourishing or appetising bread from the flour which the ; authorities place at their disposition, and'which is"a mixture of . maize, barley, , and bean named -"war-flbiir."

The same weight of broad is not oven one-half in volume of what it was formerly. No one in: Vienna at the present time cats bread to please his palate, but only just as much as is absolutely 'necessary. Even so, the result is indigestion and chronic discomfort. Besides, the population is irritated by the tales of those who came from without—from Linz, Graz, Budapest, and oven from small towns in the neighbourhood, ,where they have been literally served with excellent ryo bread and even white -rolls and "eammels." Naturally, there are- old people and little children in Vionna by the thousands who suffer severely from this stato of things. For the rich, a prescription from the family doctor gives the right to purchase a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of wheat flour a± the apothecary's for throe crowns (two-thirds of a dollar), but what are the delicate and sick among the poor to do? _It is very difficult to obtain admission in' a hospital just now, when all of them are required for the wounded and • the diseased that' pour in from the seats of -war. Of, the bread, poor as it is, there is not even enough to go round, and the children and old womon of tlio needy classes stand in long columns waitmg for their turn to purchase a loaf for their hard-earned' money and