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There are now three meatless days a week in Free France, but food rationing has not become universally effective. Alcoholic regulations are effective. The apéritif is outlawed. On three days a week no other spirits are served. France, whose world reputation for temperance was belied by her world's record of one saloon for every 80 men, women and children, is a much soberer country today...
Finding vegetables one food category in which England can be self-sufficient, British food experts recommended a war diet long on vegetables, short on meat. Snorted Vegetarian George Bernard Shaw, 84: "There is nothing wrong with the official meatless and eggless ration, which is virtually my own diet. I cannot, however, guarantee that England will become a nation of Bernard Shaws on it. That would be too much to hope...
...more visible in neutral Italy than in warring France or Britain. Italians who used to drink from five to six cups of coffee daily have had to cut it out altogether. Gasoline is strictly rationed. The wartime one-meat-course meal has been ordered and instead of one voluntary meatless day a week (Friday), there are now two enforced ones (Thursday and Friday). Such luxuries as night clubs have been prohibited altogether...
...Roman Catholics the 40 days of Lent mean frequent light meals, frequent meatless meals. To most Unitarians and Congregationalists Lent involves no extraordinary self-denial. In recent years churches of the middle ground-Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist-have observed Lent with increasing mystical piety. Last week Easter Sunday brought joyous release to a Methodist minister whose Lenten fast had caused him as much belt-tightening as Catholics experience. However, Rev. William H. Alderson, supervisor of the Methodist Church on Long Island's North Shore, had curbed his appetite for economic as well as religious reasons. For 40 days Methodist...
...unduly modest misstatement. Albert Brisbane's writings were prosy, meatless, platitudinous. Their most apparent influence on Arthur Brisbane's style is in the persistent use of capital letters. Sample: "The great Agriculturist . . . whose genius causes the earth to bloom more luxuriantly . . . and the great Mechanician . . . must be honored as highly as the scheming Politician or the intriguing Statesman, whose intrigues fill the World with conflict and discord." Son Arthur Brisbane carries capitals further. Samples of last week: "It pays to THINK AND WORK. NEITHER, BY ITSELF, WILL CARRY YOU FAR. . . ." "No nation could exist HALF STARVED AND HALF...