24/34 Milk is beginning to get scarce. The "committee of alimentation" recommends mothers to nourish their babies from what Mr.Dickens somewhere calls "nature's founts." I had a conversation yesterday with one of the best writers on the French press, and I asked him to tell me what were the views of the sensible portion of the population respecting the situation. He replied, "We always were opposed to the Empire; we knew what the consequences eventually would be. The deluge has overtaken us, and we must accept the consequences. |