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Show Rationing Leads to Fads. 1 i The bread-ticket decree, Just like the rule prohibiting the serving of sugar In cafes and restaurants, has resulted re-sulted In the , contrivance of numerous numer-ous 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 cafe. Now the rage Is pocket acissors. Bread tickets are Issued on a single eard, each day's ration being marked out In a one-inch square, dated and stamped with the quantity. The result re-sult has been confusion In the restaurants restau-rants 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 Itue de la Palx have Joined the competition with expensive models la "de luxe bread ticket cutters." |