SUGAR TICKETS.
ITo THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR.") Sus,—I am afraid, from a housewife's point of view, Lord Rhondda's plan of sugar tickets, or indeed of any other food tickets, will hardly be a workable one. No account whatever seems to be taken of the fact that households and families are in these days as fluctuating as the markets. We may be three to-day, four to-morrow, and possibly five the next day. This was my own experience a short time ago, and it is a thing happening every week throughout the country. It would seem far better to trust to the nation's honour, to do away with red-tape filling of forms, committees, and such like, and simply to instruct all grocers to do as many are doing now—to keep all sugar for regular customers, to hand none over the counter, but send it with the weekly parcel to each home. Thus, I think, would the problem be solved. If no sugar were forthcoming, then, like good soldiers, we must bear the deprivation; but if it is there, we should certainly be allowed to buy sufficient for our rational family needs.—I ant,
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