Show I FRENCH TASTE FOR HORSE HORS HORSEFLESH HORSEFLESH FLESH The French are aro among amon tho the most frugal and saving people In III tho the world and financially France occupies occupies occupies pies an enviable position among the great nations Perhaps tho the frugality of tho the lower classes has hali much to lo do with tho the enormous amount of money mone the Dank Bank Dankof of or Franco France always has had at Its com command command mand inand The French always al save on their table expense and now that beet beef ionic ork and mutton are arc so dear Jear the consumption of horseflesh has large largely ly I Increased During the tho siege of Paris by the tho Germans In the garrison and tho citizens cooped up within the walls of tho the city were re reduced in rations to the tho extent of eating horse moat and much sym sympathy m pathy path was expressed for or them The rho sympathy was wasted for tor they the have been lleon eating horseflesh In the gay gar capital ever eyer since and the practice practice tice has spread to other parts of Franco France ranco In Paris there thero are aro COO meat ment shops mainly In the tho poorer quarters whore where horseflesh h alone alono Is sold soul and the thu consumption now exceeds I animals a year ear earTho Tho The butchers report that tho the In Increase increase I crease Is duo due quite as ns much to the tho Increased liking for AS ts food as to Its cheapness compared with beef the price of from 10 to 13 cents per por pound being a powerful argument to the poor The meat would be even eon cheaper wore It not for the duty ditty on Import Imported ed d hordes hortes more than a n year old The tax was designed to encourage the tho breeding of horses In France but op orates against the butcher bulcher as t te o denIers In horse horsemeat horsemeat meat are called An agitation has bas been started for the removal of the tho tax on horses destined for slaughter which Is meeting support among the poorer classes Cl Horseflesh Is also aleo used in III Per Ger Perman Germany many man to some tome extent and an l In some somo of or the other continental countries Outside of France it Is i not a lar mr article of food and the average American Am would rather starve than eat It We Vo Te may ma learn economy In due course of time but not In that way Salt Lake Luke |