Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1891 — A Bone Eater. [ARTICLE]

A Bone Eater.

There was an account recently given here, says the New York Sun, of a man who crunches the shells of the boiled egg 3 that he takes at breakfast. There is another man in town who eats bones, and who is known among his friends as the “great American bone eater.” He is a scientist, and when a question was put to him he said: Ido not follow the habit for any fantastic reason. I believe that the organic chemical elements found in bones, such as phosphate and carbonate of lime, are greatly needed in the human frame for the development of the osseous system. Ido not make a dinner of bones, but merely take a little bone delicacy at times, when not in company. I will go through the ribbones of a spring chicken or quail, or what not. I will have the grilled leg bones of a young chicken, which are easily eaten when well grilled, bones of a sucking pig or of a Jamb, and, in fact, there are sundry bones that can be-prepared in various ways to the advantage of the eater. I have had benefit from bone eating, and I know several bone eaters, borne of the African negroes, who are very strong, eat the bones of game after making them crisp at the fire, and the books tell of the bone eaters of Europe in olden times. I would advise you to get a few dainty bones in nice order and try them." *