A DANE'S BERLIN EXPERIENCES.

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13275, 2 September 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

A DANE'S BERLIN EXPERIENCES.

The Copenhagen "National Tidende," a. paper fairly friendly to the Germane, is publishing a series of articles by a young Danish author who has recently returned from Berlin. As the journal says, the account is "no fantastic description, but a plain, sober, statement of facts as the writer found them." In the Berlin restaurants, writes the Dane, one can fjet meals from one to five marks. "Speaking honestly, each <)» h tastes much the same as another. To (get enough to eat costs about four marks, which does not include beer. The meat tastes as if ithad been previously boiled lor making soup To the meat one gets a little j water gravy and one potato cut in two. It is not unusual when entering a restaurant to be told that no food is to be had for several hours. The quality of the' beer is very poor, though the price has been doubled ; perhaps that is tho reason why one sees so few drunken people in the streets. A cup of coffee, with two tmy pieces of sugar, costs in the cafes from eighty pfennings to one mark. Most Bet liners eat their bread ration in about three days, and for the rest of the week have perforce to get what satisfaction they can out of potatoes. A dinner at home, consisting of about a pound of meat and soup prepared from niea t, would cost a household of three persons about eight marks. Fat- is not allowed to be used in the preparation or cooking ot any dish. For this reason po-