APPLE TART SLUMBER.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15487, 14 January 1916, Page 8

APPLE TART SLUMBER.

HOW WAR ECONOMY HAS ENDED A LUXURY. Lunches are lighter;. sweets coffee are luxuries. That is the . effect'§ of war economy the city. luncheon (says a London paper). Some -4 men have cut down their luncheon bills; 1 ! by nearly 50 per cent., as the following;/] table shows :•— >•<s£ Formerly. Xow. 8. d. s.,'d. :l Joint .. .. 1,0 Joint .. .. 1 O -jj] Two vegetables 0 6 Oji« vegetable 0- 3 tfi Bread . .. 0 1 Broad .. 0 X ® Swe«tft .. 0 3 Tip •• ... 0•2 J5 Checdo ..02 '5 Cofieo ..0 2 • ,'4j Tip .. 0 2 in ■ ris Saviug 5s a week. "It does some of them good to jjoijg without sweets." said a waitress London the other day. "One of mjM regular customers always fell asleep * over his applo pudding. He was very fond of apple pudding, and used to take two helpings every day it was in J* the menu. He used to decorate itgw with soft sugar and eat it slowlv. But'?;: before the last helping was finished, would get drowsy and nod and fall asleep. "Since he took to war cconomv goes without sweets, and ho gets back Vto his office earlier and docs twice as S; much work in the afternoon as he,used to—lie told me so!" ' ;•£