Comments on: Expensive Wardrobes http://goldenbird.ainurin.net/2010/01/07/expensive-wardrobes/ It's the Modern World, the Decline of the West, the Revolt of the Masses. It's 1920. It's going to be very silly. Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:11:14 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Tinet http://goldenbird.ainurin.net/2010/01/07/expensive-wardrobes/comment-page-1/#comment-293 Tinet Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:20:32 +0000 http://goldenbird.ainurin.net/?p=315#comment-293 Whee! Whee!

]]> By: Ainur http://goldenbird.ainurin.net/2010/01/07/expensive-wardrobes/comment-page-1/#comment-288 Ainur Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:47:14 +0000 http://goldenbird.ainurin.net/?p=315#comment-288 I think I just found one or two fun plots for short stories in these articles! Strikes, demonstrations, Montmartre seceding from France in protest against curfews for cafés and electing its own government... Facts beat fiction again! I think I just found one or two fun plots for short stories in these articles! Strikes, demonstrations, Montmartre seceding from France in protest against curfews for cafés and electing its own government… Facts beat fiction again!

]]> By: Tinet http://goldenbird.ainurin.net/2010/01/07/expensive-wardrobes/comment-page-1/#comment-287 Tinet Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:04:22 +0000 http://goldenbird.ainurin.net/?p=315#comment-287 Thanks, that's really interesting ... :o/ Hmm, potatoes were quite affordable compared to other food. Thanks, that’s really interesting … :o /
Hmm, potatoes were quite affordable compared to other food.

]]> By: Ainur http://goldenbird.ainurin.net/2010/01/07/expensive-wardrobes/comment-page-1/#comment-285 Ainur Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:11:14 +0000 http://goldenbird.ainurin.net/?p=315#comment-285 The New York Times ran some articles on the subject in January, 1920. I wonder if any general newspaper would bother to publish this type of detailed information today? FALL OF FRANC CAUSES DEPRESSION IN FRANCE Exchange Rate Is at the Lowest Point in the History of the Country. PARIS, Jan. 28. - Never in the history of France, even after the Franco-Prussian War and in the days of the Commune, has the franc reached such a low mark of depreciation. Dollars were quoted today at 13.405 and the pound sterling at 47.205. ... "We are sliding down the scale on which the German mark and the Austrian crown occupy the lowest degrees, the Russian ruble being reckoned as zero," says the Echo de Paris. ... FRENCH POOR FEEL PINCH OF NEW TAXES Cost of Some Necessities Is 300 Per Cent Above That of 1914. DOUBLED IN THE LAST YEAR Demand That Rich Bear a Larger Proportion of the Burden Expected in the Chamber. PARIS, Jan. 2. - ... Millionaires pay relatively much smaller taxes in France than in America, and the new rise in the price of public service and of bread, sugar, and clothes naturally affects the poor and the middle classes much more than their more fortunate brethren. ... Paris is in the throes of a money-spending debauch perhaps unequalled in her history. Nouveaux riches on all sides give "loud" evidence of their wealth, while it is becoming increasingly difficult for workmen to make both ends meet. Figures of the prices prevailing show that the cost of living has risen from 250 to 300 per cent. over what it was in 1914 ... And a list of what you would get with your francs in 1920 (prices of 1914 in brackets). Railroad trip, 100km, first class: (11.20) 24.25 - second class: (7.55) 16.35 -third class: (4.93) 10.80 Telegram, 10 words: ( 50c) 1f Electricity, 100w/h: (5c) 10c Gas, 1m^4: (20c) 60c Bread, 1 kilo: (35c) 90c Sugar, 1 kilo: (63c) 3.20 Potatoes, 1 kilo: (15c) 75c Milk, 1 litre: (40c) 95c One egg: (15c) 80c Chocolate, 1 kilo: (3f) 6f Coffee, 1 kilo: (4f) 11f Butter, 1 pound: (1.90) 8.80 Rice, 1 pound: (60c) 1.70 Cotton stockings: (2.75) 16f Silk stockings: (6f) 30f I'm still looking for figures on how much workers and tradesmen earned during this time. The New York Times ran some articles on the subject in January, 1920. I wonder if any general newspaper would bother to publish this type of detailed information today?

FALL OF FRANC CAUSES DEPRESSION IN FRANCE
Exchange Rate Is at the Lowest Point in the History of the Country.

PARIS, Jan. 28. – Never in the history of France, even after the Franco-Prussian War and in the days of the Commune, has the franc reached such a low mark of depreciation. Dollars were quoted today at 13.405 and the pound sterling at 47.205. …
“We are sliding down the scale on which the German mark and the Austrian crown occupy the lowest degrees, the Russian ruble being reckoned as zero,” says the Echo de Paris. …

FRENCH POOR FEEL PINCH OF NEW TAXES
Cost of Some Necessities Is 300 Per Cent Above That of 1914.
DOUBLED IN THE LAST YEAR
Demand That Rich Bear a Larger Proportion of the Burden Expected in the Chamber.

PARIS, Jan. 2. – … Millionaires pay relatively much smaller taxes in France than in America, and the new rise in the price of public service and of bread, sugar, and clothes naturally affects the poor and the middle classes much more than their more fortunate brethren.
… Paris is in the throes of a money-spending debauch perhaps unequalled in her history. Nouveaux riches on all sides give “loud” evidence of their wealth, while it is becoming increasingly difficult for workmen to make both ends meet.
Figures of the prices prevailing show that the cost of living has risen from 250 to 300 per cent. over what it was in 1914 …

And a list of what you would get with your francs in 1920 (prices of 1914 in brackets).

Railroad trip, 100km, first class: (11.20) 24.25
- second class: (7.55) 16.35
-third class: (4.93) 10.80
Telegram, 10 words: ( 50c) 1f
Electricity, 100w/h: (5c) 10c
Gas, 1m^4: (20c) 60c
Bread, 1 kilo: (35c) 90c
Sugar, 1 kilo: (63c) 3.20
Potatoes, 1 kilo: (15c) 75c
Milk, 1 litre: (40c) 95c
One egg: (15c) 80c
Chocolate, 1 kilo: (3f) 6f
Coffee, 1 kilo: (4f) 11f
Butter, 1 pound: (1.90) 8.80
Rice, 1 pound: (60c) 1.70
Cotton stockings: (2.75) 16f
Silk stockings: (6f) 30f

I’m still looking for figures on how much workers and tradesmen earned during this time.

]]> By: Tinet http://goldenbird.ainurin.net/2010/01/07/expensive-wardrobes/comment-page-1/#comment-284 Tinet Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:00:42 +0000 http://goldenbird.ainurin.net/?p=315#comment-284 Poor Falco ... Do you know how much the Franc of 1920 was worth? Poor Falco … Do you know how much the Franc of 1920 was worth?

]]>