EMPRESS' BREAD CARD.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1916, Page 2

EMPRESS' BREAD CARD.

GERMAN ROYALTY OBEYS WAR ORDER. Berlin, December 26. Empress Anguste Victoria is using a bread card for herself and all the members of her household the same as any other German housewife. Meatless and fatless days are kept in the royal households as scrupulously as in any other German home. To the German Empress may well be accorded the title ''the model German housewife." The way she keeps her house in accordance with the letter and spirit of the laws framed for the purpose of national economy must be an inspiring example to the rest of German womanhood.

You will find doubters, kickers and cranks even among German women. It is no pleasure to stand in line in front of a butter and egg store for an hour or more just to have a quarter of a pound of butter doled out to you and hear some one say. "1 bet women In high places are not restricted the way we are!"

The woman in the highest place is, of course, the Empress herself. Accordingly T applied through the proper official channels for a statement as to restriction in her household. The, answer read:

'"All the restrictions as to the use of food are most scrupulously obeyed at the Imperial court. This includes the non-use of meat on the two meatless days, the non-use of fat on the two fatless and the non-use of pork on the one porkloss day of the week, as well as the use of the bread card, which limits the daily consumption of bread to 250 grams per head. "Besides, all the copper that could be spared has been sold to the Government and the rest has been declared as confiscated as prescribed by law. ' All meals have been simplified to the utmost and are served in the plainest manner." What German womanhood has done is highly praised by the. German Emperor in a telegram sent to Louise, the Grand Dinhess of Baden. The paper says:—

"In these onerous times the German woman has proved herself equal to her great task. Faithful, faith-inspiring, and full of confidence, she has lent her helping hand in all fields of endeavor, thus following the example so admirably set by Germany's princesses."