Show Flour r Price Away A cy ZIp Up I d 9 9 4 9 9 4 O 9 P 9 9 6 9 9 4 O 9 O 9 d 9 O Lf Yeast east Does oes Not Rise Prunes runes Become Fashionable J Delicacies Delicacies' Beans Are Aref f Aristocratic t When the housewife suddenly discovers era ers rs that the dough is overflowing the pans pans she realizes it has rapidly risen during the night or whenever dough rises But while yeast may have caused the the mixture to go up the yeast itself has remained flat flat it it is still selling for tor forthe forthe the same old price which price which is s more than can can be said of most articles these days J Yeast that concoction which is noted I Ifor for for making other things rise rise bread bread dough et cetera cetera hasn't hasn't gone up uJ a bit because of the war You still can buy huy ordinary yeast for 5 cents a box and the compressed sort for tor 2 v. v cents a cake But flour that ordinarily rises only when there is a change in the We yeast hasn't remained stationary it it is away up more than 50 per cent higher than last year and is selling for 2 Good GoodBye Good Bye Prunes Prunes those good old of the humorists humorists' and house boarding-house keepers have been elevated to a most respectable place by the present ascent of prices Prunes used to be so cheap that they became a nightly dessert at atthe atthe atthe the house boarding-house table and a daily subject for joke or rhyme But with I prunes at 16 and 18 cents a pound it I will probably become fashionable to I eat them Persons who formerly considered prunes very plebeian and whose patrician patrician patrician patri patri- cian palates just endure them may now eat them with perfect propriety and the knowledge that a change in price has elevated the lowly prunes prune's social standing He now is being being being be be- ing accepted in the best circles and being a plutocrat none mentions hie his former lowly status or the fact that he 1 used raised sed to appe appear appear r at the tables of the common people It is said there are pounds of prunes raised each year in the United States As the ordinary prunes run un about sixty to the pound it may readily be he estimated even by one not mathematically Inclined or Inclined or you can take our word for tor it that it-that that about prunes are marketed each year That means about a poun pound of prunes cr sixty prunes apiece every year for all aIl of us fewer us-fewer fewer if they be larger more if smaller Farewell Beans Another Another citizen of the world of edibles edibles edi edi- bles that has become elevated to more or less upper state by war times is the bean lIe He too used to have a lot of fun poked at him The bean was more or less in the soup at the homes of pool poor families every day or so But from o Q cents a pound last year beans have jumped to 15 cents h Lima beans beam are also higher in price t. t than than an last year We Ve can give no exact estimate of the number of Lima beans there are in a pound pound but but it may be said definitely that there are fewer Lima beans In a pound than there are of Navy avy beans Owing to the high cost of meat Pork and beans bearis will this year contain but a trace o of pork and manufacturers did they not haVe hare so many labels already al- al al ready printed would doubtless change t. t the 16 name to beans and pork It need not be mentioned that eggs Have performed their usual fall aviation avIation avia avIa- tion meets and will likely stay up in the air all along with the rest of the soar soar- ing ng ones till the hens cease their egg strike In the warm days dars of spring One is taking a gamblers gambler's chance hance these days in ordering scrambled eggs In ch cheap ap restaurants |