Show Tibetans Depend on Species of Worms To Provide the Necessary Up Pick A curious little worm which Is used by Tibetan natives as a pick me up me-up up has attracted the attention of missionaries Locally known as they make their habitat In lofty mountain ranges of the Tibetan border near the leper home conducted by the Friars Minor of the VIcariate Natives eat them dead or alive aUve for tor medical medica purposes In either form they bring fancy prices They are In great grent demand for the mentally depressed and for tor sufferers of stomach stomach ach trouble When dead they are mixed with boiled chicken In this concoction they are said to react wonderfully as pick mc When live worms without cocoons are dug up they are arc mixed with a strong liquor distilled from Crom maize Taken in this form Corm they are considered a D potent remedy remedy remedy rem rem- edy against stomach Ills So valuable is the worm grass considered that hundreds of hunters make a living by gathering them The hunters swarm the mountain I slopes to search for Cor these worms I I They easily find eager buyers ious sous to purchase all they can dig up In the winter season the ground is covered with covered with these insects More often they are found in the cocoon less often without In either form they find a ready market Though somewhat smaller they resemble worms silk-worms In appearance The head is covered by a bright bright- red crust As winter approaches they burrow head first straight down Into the ground Here they spin thin cocoons in which they wrap themselves When the snow melts their heads begin a sprouting proc ess Thin hairs resembling grass spring from the soil The people of the district believe that the sprouting blades Open like flowers and scatter spores which 1 In Indue indue indue due time develop into other worms |