Show I WEDDING RINGS BEING HOARDED BY BY PEASANTRY I IBy By CARL D D. D GROAT United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN Nov 17 The 17 The largest collection of or wedding rings in the world is is to be found today amongst the land owners and peasants be beyond beyond be- be yond Berlin They are hoarding these symbols of matrimony symbols too df hunger hunger hunger hun hun- ger distress disruption Symbols of hunger they are for they h have ve been surrendered by city in exchange for tor a few bushels of ot potatoes or sacks of flour The agrarians wanted no paper I marks They hoarded their the grains I awaiting the new stable currency currency curren curren- 1 C cy which Is now gradually coming I to use In the meantime dwellers dwellers i 1 lers In the cities clUes went forth to the theland theland theland land to do their own dealings The peasants took wedding rings in payment payment payment-gl payment gladly They had too an almost savage avage love for trinkets a childish Interest Interest interest Inter inter- est in such as opera glasses and gramophones No castle today lacks a select assortment of wedding wedding wedding wed wed- ding rings no humble peasant cottage cottage cottage cot cot- tage Is devoid of a talking machine But In Berlin th there re are arc many homes with no wedding rings to i hock against potatoes no talking j machines to exchange for eggs and butter and flour homes flour homes too too without without without with with- out the potatoes the flour eggs and butter I haven't altogether lost their sense of humor They've coined a new version of living from hand to mouth Now it is from the wall to the mouth meaning one hocks the picture and draperies etc In order to get something to put In the stomach |