Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1918 — Queer Happening. [ARTICLE]

Queer Happening.

“Meat prices in France keep soaring higher and higher,” Said Novelist Edith Wharton. “Cold boiled ham, for instance, now costs $2 a pound. “I know a French woman who visited her butcher’s the other day with a basketful of wooden skewers. She plumped the skewers down on the counter and said: “‘I return these. Give me their weight in beef, please.’ “ ‘Wh—what?’ gasped the butcher. “ ‘They were weighed to me as beef,’ the woman explained, ‘and I pjaid for them as beef. So, naturally, now that I bring them back I demand their full value as beef.’ ”