THE EATERS OE CLAY
THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
WHO FEED ON DIRT
In Java the Women Eat Cakes of
Earth to Keep '^lieiuselves Slender,
and In New Caledonia the Natives
Peed on Friable Stones.
No collection of national dishes in
eludes earth or clay among them, but
this is a favorite “plat” with a good
many millions of people up aud down,
Even in Europe they are not difficult
to find, or were not 50 years ago.
Tastes . have , changed , , a good deal , , since .
then, no doubt. But human beings do
not readily give up a favorite dish, es
pec-iaily when it is cheap, if superior
persons denounce it, they enjoy tlie
treat on the sly.
Probably the quarrymen of Kiffhan
sen no longer breakfast in public upon
slices of bread “buttered” with fine
clay, as Humboldt saw them, but we
should be rather surprised to learn
that thrifty souls among them do not
follow the custom of tlieir ancestors
In private. Humboldt was reminded
of that early experience upon the
hanks of the Amur, where he saw
Russian soldiers eating what they
called “rock butter,” a similar clay.
Mr. Laiug had the good fortune to ob
serve the first appreciation of the deli
cacy, or almost, in one district of Swe
den. Five years only before lie made
the “tour” so famous in our grandsires’
time there was dearth in the country,
The people had already begun to eat
“bark bread,” when a very poor wood
man noticed some white stuff among
the roots of a tree he felled. It looked
eo clean and nice that he carried home
a basketful, mixed It with rye and
bark aud baked it. The loaf proved to
be excellent, and no disagreeable con
sequences followed. So the woodman
told his neighbors, and a rush set in.
When the magistrates heard of this
nbnortnal provender, they forbade tlie
use of it, of course; that would be the
natural impulse of the superior per
son. But the peasantry were not to
be persuaded or coerced into rejecting
food which they knew liy experience
to be wholesome and nourishing.
When Mr. Laing visited the district—
it is called Degenfors—they were us
ing the stuff both for soup and bread.
Samples dispatched to Stockholm for
analysis gave “finely pulverized flint
ana feldspar, lime, clay, oxide of iron
and a residuum of some organic matter
similar to animal which yielded am
monia and an oil.”
It is organic matter which contains
the nourishment everywhere, no doubt,
If nourishment there be. But that is
not always the case, and earth eating [
seems to deserve more attention than
has yet been paid to it, so far as our
reading goes. Commonly it is dismiss
ed as a degrading practice of snmnis. j
Iitissinn soldiers, no classei
with savages. NorTre tlie potters of
Sclude. Their work is fashionable at
present and they make money—that is,
by the Indian standard. But among
their weekly expenses an allowance
must be made for the quantity of
“chaniali” which their wives and chil
dren consume; “chaniali” is a white,
unctuous earth used for glazing pot
tery.
But, as a rule, of course, it is sav
ages who affect this diet, alike useful
aud agreeable to their taste. Few un
derstand, perhaps, how common it is.
Instances might be found in every con
tinent and every zone by any one who
looked into the matter thoroughly. We
give a few which recur to mind.
Hue Ainos are enthusiastic earth eat
ers. In the north of their island is a
valley where alone the material can
be dug, but it is carried to all parts.
They boil it with the root of the wild
Illy. When a certain proportion of the
clay lias settled, the remainder is pour
ed off and eaten like cream. Sir
Spencer St. John reports that the Sea
Dyaks always took a supply of red
ochre on their piratical expeditions as
a reserve in ease stores should run
short, “aud we once found in some de
serted Seribas praus many packets of
a white, oleaginous clay used for the
same purpose.”
In Java little cakes of earth are sold
in the market; women buy and eat
them to preserve a slender shape. The
treatment succeeds, for they lose all
appetite. Humboldt asserts that the
Indiaus of Quito put earth and quartz
sand into their drinking water; but
this is not unusual, so far as the earth
goes, at least. We have heard a Boer
family complain that they could no
where get good water when absent
from their home on the banks of the
Orange. The water of the Orange is a
“puree” of mud; lienee its name.
The peoples of New Caledonia eat
pieces of a friable stone, “Lapis ol
laris.” Messrs. Cloquet aud Brischet,
traveling in those islands, could get
no food f»*» several days. They came
upon some green laminate talc and ate
five ounces each; their strength return
ed, and they never felt any inconveni
ence. The Ottomae Indians of South
America live exclusively on tisb when
they can get it. But during the sea
son of Hoods there is no fishing, and
they manage very comfortably with
earth. Moreover, they find the diet so
agreeable that during the rest of tlio
year they eat a ball of clay for dessert.
Evidently it agrees with them, for the
Ottoniacs are very tall aud robust.—
I hill Mall Gazette.
Mncle Him Weep.
“V'es,” said the rustic editor, “when
my llrst subscription came in it
brought tears to my eyes.”
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|u onions.”— Chicago News.
PLEA FOR THE CODFISH.
A Clief Who Says This Fisli Is Xot
Appreciated at His Heal Worth,
“If codfish cost a dollar a pound,”
said tile elief, “it would be more uni
versally beloved. I tell you, it is the
best dinner fish known. I have tried
the whitefish all over tlie world, but
the codfish is king of them all and is
not appreciated at his real worth.
Cook him in any way you like and lie
is delicious. Even the dried codfish,
picked tip and served in cream for
breakfast, is a fine dish. Put him in
a 1 m \ 3. ,a S< s ‘* bake w llim him «P carelully, tightly, and well let stuff- him
’ or
ed, and he is delicious.
“Let me tell you tlmt when you make
fish cakes you should not drown out
tlie fish with potato. Put as little po
tato or other substance in the cakes
as possible, and. if you want thorn as
fine as they can he made, wrap them
in a blanket of eggs, and do not be
sparing of the egg. You can make a
tasty dish of codfish cakes if you will
follow my advice. Fish cakes are con
sidered a very democratic dish, of
course, but my patron, who pays me a
large salary, is as democratic as lie
used to be in his younger days. When
he sends down to me an order for fish
cakes for the next morning’s break
fast, lie says lie wants Mescliutt’s fish
cakes, with egg. That is tlie order,
and lie is thinking of his younger life
when, as lie once told me, in a base
ment on Broadway lie used to get the
finest butter cakes and fish cakes he
ever tasted, ‘excepting yours, chef,’
he adds always. But I know that
dimes in those days were as $1,000
bills are to him now and his appetite
was keener and more appreciative.”—
New York Sun.
SAUCY, BUT SELF RELIANT.
Such Is tlie Typical East Side Girl ol’
Sew York City.
“The typical east side girl of New
York,” writes Charles T. Brodhead in
The Ladies’ Home Journal, “is simply
a product of her environments. She is
surrounded by the good, bad and indif
ferent. She is in an atmosphere in
which no girl should he reared. Her
eyes and ears are closed to many dis
agreeable tilings around her. And she
shuts them simply because she does
not care to see and hear. Yet the east
side girl is no saint. Far from it. The
typical girl of that section is self re
liant, saucy, impertinent, slangy, quick
tempered, ready to fight with the
tongue, aud oven with fists if neces
sary. Slie will dance all night and
work all day, repeat it three or four
times a week, then declare she isn’t
tired and look bright and fresh all the
while. Slie will upbraid her mother,
whom she calls ‘me ole woman;’ and
abuse her father, referred to by her
as ‘me ole man;’ cuff the ears of her
younger brothers; have a hair pulling
match with a sister; yet if any one
should dare utter a derogatory to
Side' id go a me ti
She flHRs outrageously with motormcBT
conductors and the like and will laugh
derisively at or slap the face of the
well dressed man who presumes to
become acquainted with her on the
street; remain night after night at the
bedside of a girl friend who is ill and
follow a begging cripple half a block
to give her last cent for charity.”
Kvarts* Puns.
William M. Evarts, secretary of
state under President Hayes, made
perhaps his best and his worst puns
from railway platforms while travel
ing with tlio presidential party.
They had ascended Mount Washing
ton by the steep cable rotul, aud other
tourists, gathered there from ail parts
of the country, called for a speech.
“We are not strangers,” said Mr.
Evarts genially. “We have all been
born and brought up here.”
At another time, when traveling
through Tennessee, Mr. Evarts laid a
wager with the young people of his
party that he could piake a pun upon
each town through which they should
pass. As they readied Chattanooga
tlio crowd clamored for a speech. Mr.
Evarts pleaded that as the train would
stop but a moment lie could only make
a few Cliattanoogatory remarks!
The unexpected element which char
acterizes a pun was marked in all tlio
wit of Rufus Choate. “I can’t endure
X.!” lie once exclaimed of another fa
mous Bostonian. “1 should not care
if 1 should never see him again.” Then
half remorsefully. “Weil, 1 should not
care if 1 should see him in a proces
sion.”
Making a Child Too Quiet.
Play is the proper and natural outlet
for a child's thoughts. To restrain his
motion is to drive back his living fancy
into tlio recesses of his mind, and this
results in his confusion and unhappi
ness. Some children who are forced to
be still and passive when they are
longing for action find relief in wills
poring over stories to themselves, hut
it is an unsatisfactory substitute for
dramatic action. And it is also moral
ly injurious, for the necessity of con
cealing one’s ideas destroys after
awhile the ability for fluent expros
sion and brings about timidity and
trust of our friends.-Florence Hull
Wlutorburn in Woman's Home Com
P anlon -
A<1 van times of Emerson.
Bertlia—But isn’t there a good deal
of Emersons writings that you do not
understand. Uncle Charles?
Uncle Charles—Of course there is.
The great pleasure in rending Emerson
Is the opportunity it gives a man with
a fertile Imagination to think out
meanings for profound
ton Transcript.
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“i thought you were going to break
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“We did intend to, but tlio cook re
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