A selentide dietary has been de. vised consisting ehieay, as far as Yemember. of lettuces, mills and whole meal bread. An enterprising "Daily. Express" man has put self on it for a week and dail scribes how he rises from the table 30 gorged that he doesn't want another meal for ages. Which must be very bad for him. When T was small we were always taught that we should leave off hungry. But in those days milk-drinking was kept within proper bounds.
Apropos, the Food Control told us, inthe House, that it is spending £500,000 a week on bread and flour, £315,000 week on home-produced meat, £100,000 on bacon, and£7, 500,000 a year on milk. It recalls thi story of the man who was given 31 dollars to lay out in refreshments for a funeral party. His accounts read:—"Whiskey 30 dollars; Bread 1 dollar" "What in thunder made you waste all that money in bread demanded the chairman.
Like Alice in Wonderland, we "take great interest in questions of eating and drinking" nowadays and Thope that you do not find my let~ ters (like the curate speaking on beer) "very full of my subject." As an offset to the hope of more tea and iter the Food Control threatens us.
ith nm Government white loaf or, alternatively, a whole meal one. One Searcely fancies the idea of White:
(this, I should explain, was one day's Jong-promised holiday) Hurley, about four miles from Maidenhead by road, though fully five times that by river. Ithe "Thames is divided here by [islands into four streams, besides small backwater, and it is one of the most enchantingly pretty places on all the Thames.
We found it almost completely amply. The picturesque Tittle hotel went bankrupt months ago and was shut, with the grass growing a foot the garden. There was no the river and the lock had the appearance of not having been opened for weeks. We got a boat, however. The boatman had gone to lunch, but had left a notice saying that he would be back later and meanwhile begging us to help our-Selves. In all" the afternoon saw one other skiff, one Canadian canoe, and three motor-boats. The disproportion seemed odd in these days of petrol restriction. But the lock-keeper told us that next month no launch will be allowed any petrol unless.
is in the river Volunteer Defence Force, which has been organized all along' the Thames, and that owners were having a final fling. Tu general, the Deserted Village wasn't in it with Hurley that day. To have the river 50 mulch to ourselves made it all the Dleasanter, yet in a way made us {eel slightly. conscience-stricken, it we were idling when all the rest j "wghicti fof the world was at work.
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