HUNG EAT PAPER, STRAW, AND SAND.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 262, 2 November 1918, Page 15

HUNG EAT PAPER, STRAW, AND SAND.

KKATHKUS, THREAD, WADDING, I UVI'SLM. CHALK AND SPLINTERS ALSO FOUND IN BREAD. The "Dentsche Tagesieitung" states that I in examining samples of bread the Chi-micil I Institute of Ke&earch of the city of Leipzig found the following formgn bodies prosent: Feathers, thread, wadding, lysol, paper, wooti, struw, gypsum, chalk, splinters and saud. The bread of oae large hakery unaccountably contained about 13 per cent of copper In the form of verdigris. Considering that the Teutons actually iutroducpd the use of soap among the Kom'ans and thus bestowed the gift on Europe generally, it is hard on their German descendants that they should be the first nation in tho war to be -left almost soeploss. But their sitnation In 1914 with regard to soap was very weak, as, indeed. it was with regard to all Industries needing fats. Kour fifths of the oils and fnts ibroad, so that directly war broke out the supply of these raw materials became a trussing problem. r.efore the war the best toilet soap was more of a lnxury there than it was in England, and cost abon* twice as much. k war committee for the distribution of )ila and fats was formed early in 15)15; it Mne down the use of Industrial fats to less | :hnn nno-tenth the usual supply. It was '■ ihen decided that only 7* per cent of the jrdinary supply of fatty materials for soap *ould be allowed: rather an appalling restriction on the cleanliness of a nation. However, fillings and additions were to "><» used to a much larger exteut than formerly, so fhat the actual issue of soap and soap powders would not he so much rnrailed in amount as the restriction implied, j The consequence of so limited an output. I SnwpTpr. wa.i very scrtons for the manii"arturers, and pompnlsory syndication was HH-pssarj- to control the limited amount of instness. The prodncKon of glycerine In the mann'aotTire of soap had also become an imporant matter for mnnitions. Pnrini; the rear W1, r > the kinds of fatty material ppr•estricted. until they had only palm oil and rain oil. with some amount of oil residues md Inferior oIL Among fillinps, potato ttarch was entirely forbidden, but fine •lay. kaolin, tale and other similar mateials were permitted. Vaseline has proved ilso a nsefnl Hddltion. and Iceland moss is xrmitted. The soap powders were lo conain as mneh as ~<O per cent of soda. Soap began to hp rationed to the com I minify individually in April. 1!)16: it wa« : it first distrihuteil locally on thp bread icket. But in August of that year an mperial Soap Ticket was issued, and this emains in force to the present day. bring iccepted patiently by the German people, (Ten when at the beginning of IPLS the ! cashing soap radon was haired fnr the wond time. When one remembers that i h** nverapre consumption of fnt as food fn , ~rprmanv was as much ;is TO zr. per dny about 21« x. or as min-h as they now get n a weekK one sees that the soap restric- I, :lonfi had to he accopted as part of the j situation -with regard to tats, I,