Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1915 — CONSIDER EARTH A LUXURY [ARTICLE]

CONSIDER EARTH A LUXURY

People In Many Parte of the World Prefer It to the More Ordinary Kinds of Food.

Among many strange foods which the inhabitants of this world partake of, and consider delicacies, perhaps the strangest of all Is earth. Yet there are tribes, the Lastians of Slam,, who actually eat and enjoy earth. It hen never been discovered where these peculiar people contracted this habit,

though it is generally believed that it probably came about In the time of famine when there was nothing else to be had. However, the habit has now got such a hold upon them that, old and young, rich and poor, alike Indulge freely In its consumption. It Is preferred when it has been acquired from the vicinity of water so that it carries with It a taste of fish. It la made into a pasty substance and smothered Into the ground In a hot fire. It can be obtained at markets and at stores, and. is served at

dinners and at big functions of any description. ,1 , In some parts of the Congo earth is sold in the shape of apples and oranges, and is given out Jn various colors —yellow, brown, gray and even pink, which Is looked upon as a very delectable luxury.