EAT SPARROWS.
ADVICE TO HL'NGKY HANOVERIANS. German provincial newspapers are full of devices to meet the genera! shortage of food and other commodities (says a " Daily Kxpress " correspondent). The Hanover '■ Courier " advises hungry Hanoverians to eat sparrows, which, " lv thf- opinion of many professors, yield extraordinarily nutritious food." The paper suggests that the authorities should organise sparrow-hunting parties among school children, un.cr the control of the Food Distribution Department. The " Hessische Post," of Darmstadt, In the cours? of a long and plaintive article on the dearth of matches, states that (ipruinnmade matches are expensive and inferior, while the price of Swedish matches, which are imported on a small scale, nns risen BOU per cent. It supplies the following remedy: " Every German should mate his own matches. Out cardboard from book-covers, okl postcards, etc.. in strips, and stiffen the strips by plunging them Into a mixture ol glue and starch. Dip one end in sulphur, and excellent matches are made."
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 89, 14 April 1917, Page 15
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159EAT SPARROWS. Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 89, 14 April 1917, Page 15
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