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Show DISPLAY DELIGHT j IN SQUARE MEAL! Holland Is Paradise for Ger-1 mans After Scanty Diet of Wartime OLDENZAAL, Netherlands. Aug. 1 2. (Correspondence ) St u dents ot the food situation In central Europe i have a good opportunity to observe' the effects of a long continued spare dtet at this place, which is the first station on Holland soil after, leaving German territory on the main route, from Berlin to Amsterdam. Here Germans have the first oppor-t oppor-t unity to recoup themselves for lost j calories. Fifteen minutes ride to the. east, the bill of fare Is meager here it is plenteous and sustaining and the big station restaurant Is dally Jammed with hungry .Umftrourfj crowds whose- capacity for solid trencher work Is amazing. Mountains of white bread sandwiches sand-wiches melt like snow and from a score of points cries arise for glasses Of fresh milk an unobtainable luxury in German) The meal here only serves as a preliminary snack for an even more plenteous feast aboard the train. s the Ar-oi-iate.l I'hsj eorrcpend-ent eorrcpend-ent was watching ths operations, n German theatrical company with a ontract to fill In Holland, was making vigorous frontal a tack on ; . : iti. e.,u iM'ir,.r; Th profec In Germany Is :n a bad way; BSjarte are low and living is corresponding!) prccanou.- Competition f"r Joining touring companies in Holland Is keen Their delight In facing a square !meal was pathetic. I ne holding alofl i ham sandwich of generous proportions, propor-tions, declaimed: ' Beautiful bountiful bounti-ful Holland." Heboid the ham In th sandwiches is draped In luxuriant fes-! fes-! toons, far surpassing In berfUty and fragrance the roses In ti c gardens of Scmlramiq." ine wonin sat wuh folded hands In rapt contemplation of a chunk of ' fresh butter the size of a brick. "This Is truly paradise " .-.he gasped |