Show Grasshopper as II tood Popular in the East En Every one r IMI tint that ra cats caU catch grasshoppers and flit eat t them with great relish though housewives will 1 tell you that they grow thin on oa that Wet diet Fabre the famous believes that grasshoppers and similar Insects would be palatable rood food for tor human be be- 1 too loo and In one of or his books says say Mr Percy 1 F. F he quoted with approval this passage e from General Daumas Daumas' book The she Great Desert explaining In a footnote that th the grasshopper grasshopper grass grass- ross hopper flIp referred to Is more exactly the cricket which must most not be confused with the true grasshopper The Is la good eating both for tor men and for tor camels Either fr fresh h or pickled It Is la eaten after litter the fret foot the wings wines and the head hud hare bare been removed d the rest Is broiled or else stewed and served up In to the form torm of or meat balls After being dried In IA the win sun It tt U ts ground to powder which maybe may mayhe he be stirred Into milk or made Into tough und and then fried In fat tat or butter with salt Camels greatly like to eat grasshoppers gnus gnus- hoppers which ore are served to them either ther dried or after being roasted In Ina Inn Inn n a heap In n large hole between two layers luera of ot live coals The negroes also alo oat eat them cooked d In that WilY way The Virgin Mary having naked Bilked God Cod for Cor tome some meat ment that should have no Mood lie He sent her some grasshoppers The TIle wives of ot the prophets when anyone anone sent them a n present of grass hoppers always shared them with the theother theother theother other omen The Calif Omar one day dal when he hewat was wat asked whether the use of ot grasshoppers grass grass' grasshoppers hoppers for tor food tood was permitted replied replied replied re re- plied J 1 should like to have a basketful basket basket- ful tul of them to cat eat From all this testimony It Is clearly evident that by the grace graep of God grace grace- grasshoppers grass hoppers were given Iven to man loan for fur food tood Youths Youth's Companion Companion- |