SACCHARIN—AFTER THE WAR

The restrictions of trade and the shortage of many important supplies incident to the war have encouraged the production of substitutes in the domain of foods and drugs as well as in other fields of commerce. This has been true in far greater degree in the overseas countries than in America, where the deprivations and interferences have not been so protracted. It has frequently been remarked by those who have familiarized themselves with conditions in Germany during the latter years of the war that the entire population of the Central Empires seemed to be eating, drinking and wearing substitutes most of the time. Some of these will doubtless establish themselves as useful contributions to our mode of living—products of the ingenuity of necessity.

The war has taught us that it is no great hardship to do without certain drugs that were once regarded as next to indispensable. On the other