Show wood as a food the humorists are right and the newest breakfast food Is indeed wood pure and simple an inmate of an english workhouse has taken to con suming wood as food and the erudite english physicians observe that there ie really no reason why it the feces sity should arise wood should not be employed as a regular source 0 food since it consists chiefly of cellular fiber which with suitable chemical treatment may be converted into sugar but unprepared wood can have no value as food tor the human organ ism inasmuch as the digestive juices are not able to deal with it A certain amount of woody fiber is thought to be digested by the horse by reason of the presence of a peculiar digestive secretion in his digestive canal which is able to convert cellular tissue into sugar in the same way workout shirts and collars could be converted into food |