Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1902 — Sand Eaten at St. Doula. [ARTICLE]

Sand Eaten at St. Doula.

St. Louis has a peculiar sect in the shape of a community of sand-eaters, composed of seventy-five men and women. The sand-eaters take every day a spoonful of sand. They believe that grit is necessary in every animal, and that many stbmach troubles are due to tbe absence of grit in the stomach.