The Pleasant Aspects of the Current Scarcity

entertainment, as a sample of the procedure just mentioned, to share with you an attempt to find the bright side of the current high prices original: "Theurung" and thereby, regarding this subject that now makes so many minds anxious and whose shadow side is certainly black and gloomy enough, to show that indeed every thing has two sides, and everywhere opposite the shadow side there is also a bright side.

Immediately after the harvest, that is, at a time when the demand for grain for immediate consumption is lowest because so many thousands and hundreds of thousands of country folk, and so many thousands and hundreds of thousands of inhabitants of small country towns, are still living and consuming the little that they have grown themselves—at that time, the price of grain rises by