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But the three colonies are only one branch of the Association’s work. It 
maintains on business lines a model boarding house for single workmen 
(“Arbeiterheim”), of whom several hundreds are received during a year and 
lodged for an average period of eight months, though many of them have made 
the place their fixed home for years. As a rule two lodgers share a room, and 
the price of a bed is Is. 4d. and Is. 6d. per week. A People’s Kitchen—an 
eating-house at which cheap nutritious food is sold to the extent of 120,000 meals 
a year—a creche, at which from 45 to 60 infants are received daily, a public 
library, a playground, and a kindergarten for the special benefit of Ostheim 
householders, a nurse for women in childbirth, and the regular free distribution 
of milk throughout the year to needy families are among the Association’s 
other practical philanthropies, in support of which ample funds are always 
at disposal. 
A Building Society of the “ public utility ” type has also erected a large 
number of houses for working people in Cannstatt and Untertiirkheim. The 
rent of a two-room tenement with kitchen is about £10 16s. per annum (4s. 2d. 
per week) and of a three-room tenement with kitchen £15 5s. per annum 
(5s. 1 Od. per week), rents that are 15 and 20 per cent, below the general average 
of private dwellings. 
Retail Prices. 
Groceries and other Commodities. 
‘ Stuttgart has not yet established covered markets on a large scale, though 
the municipality contemplates enterprise in this direction. The only public 
market building is small and was not erected for its present purpose. It is 
open for the sale of meat daily, though the butchers’ stalls are few. For other 
commodities the market days are Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The 
greater part of the trade in country produce is done in open spaces allotted to 
the market-women from the surrounding districts. 
The Wurtemberg grocer does a more general trade than the grocer of Bavaria, 
For example, it is almost always possible to obtain cheese and butter in grocers’ 
shops instead of having to buy them from special dealers. Milk is for the most 
part sold in dairies, small and large, but many milk carts carry on a street and 
house-to-house trade. The coffee most consumed costs from 11 d. to Is. Id. per lb. 
Coffee substitutes are sold in considerable quantity, but the glazed or sugared 
bean coffee which has a great vogue in some parts of North Germany does 
not appear to have commended itself to the Swabian. Like the South German 
generally, the Stuttgart working-man is no great consumer of butter, the 
price of which is almost stationary at about Is. 2d. per lb. He eats his brown 
or black bread dry, though with the addition of thin slices of sausage or 
cheese. Limburg, made in squares or blocks (whence the name “ Backstein ” 
or “brick” cheese), is the cheese mostly eaten; the consumption of Swiss 
cheese is comparatively small in working-class households. I here is no 
great market for margarine, and the best quality at 8^d. per lb., was, in 
October, 1905, the only one in demand. The staple bread is a mixture of 
rye and’wheat, which bakes both dark and lighter in colour, according to the 
quality of the flour, and is sold in long rounded loaves 2 and 5 lb. in weight. 
A 4-lb. loaf of such bread cost 5|d. The so-called “ black ” bread, mostly or 
altogether of rye, cost 4|d. per 4-lb. loaf. The best wheaten bread cost Q^d, 
per 4 lb., but it is seldom eaten by working people. The local Guild of 
Bakers fixes the price of bread in the retail trade according to the fluctuations 
in the price of corn, but the Co-operative Society bakes its own bread, and sells 
according to its own tariff. 
Wurtemberg is an important beer-producing country, but in the Stuttgart 
district two other drinks are very popular. One is the red and white wine, grown 
oc the surrounding hills and terraces, and the other is cider, produced from a 
somewhat deteriorated strain of apple. Cider may be regarded as the distinctive 
local beverage of the working classes, and in every cellar may be seen several 
barrels in store. Several hundred litres (100 litres being about 22 gallons) are 
a family’s average year’s supply—for the cider will keep that time if properly 
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