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Show WAR SPOONS. (Bv Eueene Blake of The Vigilantes ) At breakfast in a small hotel a tmehnc man noticed that the guests in the dining room were averaging about two spoonsful of sugar to the r mffoe. though the sugar was low in the bowL In the dining room of the railroad station where he got his lunch, the sugar bowl was empty N'obody was grumbling about the scarcity of sugar or anything else, because the country' was at war. But a man wearing spectacles spec-tacles did lift a blc spoon out of the bowl where the sugar would have "Wonder why It is customary for us Americans to shovel sugar Instead of dipping it?" he asked a friend. That night, at a hotel in the city. fh drummer bad dipped about four times with the after-dinner coffee spoon he found In the sugar before he got half as much sugar as he usually took. He looked at the negro waiter opposite and smiled "Yes, uh. miuter." that black dir-nltary dir-nltary grinned, "that's whut we call the little war spoon.' The bos.. h" says it helps people to remember; and they don't use mach more'n half as much sugar since he put it in the sugar dish." |