Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1914 — EXTRAORDINARY DISHES [ARTICLE]

EXTRAORDINARY DISHES

Mrs. Dan Cranford, whose book, "Thinking Black," has created considerable controversy, mentioned some extraordinary Central African "dishes" in the course of a recent lecture. These included stewed elephant's trunk, roast rhinoceros foot, boiled hippo tongue (stewed 48 hours to snake it tender), roast wild donkey, •tewed monkey, roast water rat, tall sad all, and the luscious

morsel, which a chief provided as a state delicacy, of a mess of thousands of white ants, frizzled in their own fat, like a sort of Central African whitebait. Also there was a special dish, much favored, of starchy boiled grass, "green and. glutinous.” Mrs. Crauford also told of the Central African “knuts." The young bridegroom wore a necklace of teeth and hairs of the elephant’s tail, and

a fur boa, which any West end lady would envy, of squirrel skins, gray and white, the toilet being completed possibly—for all European garments were fashionable —by one of Mrs. Dan Crauford’s skirts specially lent for the occasion.