Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1920 — How Chinese Use Peach Stones. [ARTICLE]

How Chinese Use Peach Stones.

Women and children, are to be seen in the markets of China picking up peach stones, which are put to several .uses; Broken Into pieces and dried ■in the sun,'they furnish excellent material for fuel. Another profitable use of the peach stone is made by artists and engravers, who carve them Into different forms of animals. Some of the larger etones, if round enough, are. carved into finger rings. During the season one may see in the interior of South China yards of poor people full of ■ peach stones' drying in the sun. After being cleaned, the small stones ar# used for fuel, groups of small boys picking out the larger ones. The kernels are sometimes sold to chemists and druggists. They are preserved in bottles and used as cough medicine after the kernefs. v are turned - Jnto—■ white powderr -Tbis white powder is a very popular, convenient and cheap medicine for poor people in many village# as -a reniedy •*-*•«* li<