Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1913 — Earth as a Food. [ARTICLE]

Earth as a Food.

The consumption of earth as food Is common not only in China, New Caledonia, and Hew Quines, but In the Malay Archipelago as well. The testimony of many travelers in the Orient Is that the yellow races are especially addicted to the practice. In Java and Sumatra the clay need undergoes a preliminary preparation for consumption, being mixed with water, reduced to a paste, and the sand and other hard substances removed. The day Is then formed Into small cakes or tablets as thick as a lead pencil. The Javanese frequently eat small figures roughly modeled from clay which resemble animals or little men, turned out in pastry shops.