Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1918 — Rationing Leads to Fads. [ARTICLE]

Rationing Leads to Fads.

The bread-ticket decree, just like the rule prohibiting the serving of sugar in cases and restaurants, has resulted in the contrivance of numerous fads, writes a Paris correspondent. One man is known to have become rich in one month by manufacturing a handy receptacle for the carrying of four lumps of sugar. Thousands of Parisians bought the little boxes and carried their own sugar with them to the case. Now the rage is pocket scissors. Bread tickets are Issued on a single card, each day’s ration being marked out in a one-inch square, dated and .stamped with the quantity. The result h! L s been confusion in tiie restaurants when "the waiter demands the ticket. A man introduced a handy pair of scissors, and now everybody is buying scissors. Even the high-class jewelers of the Rue de la Palx have joined the competition with expensive models in “de luxe bread ticket cutters.” 4M