Show i 8 i RARE DISHES OF THE ORIENT We Vc burt ap apil cal eat hundreds of or tons of or au aUll any doctor Is ready to testify that analla arc equally nourishing nourish ing ana arki ana cry much more wholesome Snails SJ 1 arc C p particular as to what they eat while oysters t lers are not Then again tiler fa is the th hedgehog Nobody Nobody Nobody No No- I. I body hedgehog hoS' hoS hunting for fez the tho sake 5 o V. V providing his hla table with a U dainty sh Yet we arc are content to cat eat rabbits with a n strong p. p d not ot t very pleasant flavor navor But Dut those who have hav f eaten fj h n S will bear beal testimony to the tho that these little arc are not only far nicer than la rabbits but are ven n superior to the best and fattest l 1 ulleta The b bust t way to 0 cook them is after the gypsy 8 method that thal is la to roll them Ulem In stiff lay clay ai and then bake thorn In ln Ina a wood tIre fire until experience tells tella you your that tt they are aro r done to a 0 turn turn- Thon Then break op open n the thc now hard cl clay V and you OU vo will ii find nd a a. savory feast within it h b hat has always ru u led the writer to account for the fact That Englishmen who relish gelatine which as we all knowla know is made mude from Crom the tho bladder of ot the sturgeon should pope poke fun at the Chinaman because he fancies edible in is really scarcely bird nests There Thero any difference between gelatine and th the material of which these nests are n made Some Seine have o thought tint that the birds which are arc a species specie of swift obtain their substance from the weed w but It l is more probable that they are arC provided by nature with spec special 1 I glands glands- 8 In the he mouth which secrete gelatine In a glutinous state Be De that aa as it ma may the then n ts is form Corm forman Corman an excellent am and entirely w wholesome l substitute for or gelatine and stew down to form tho the basis for Cor a capital soup That they are ate at nt least very en attractive to tho Chinese is attested b by tho the fact that the they thoy fetch as much muchas as os 75 cena cons per pound while it Is It sold said that from 7 7 to worth comes conies Into the markets an nn- I The Tile girds Ints build near tho the co coast usually 1 In e ca cave cares in the Islands I i o of Sumatra and Borneo R else else- where The rho little nests are arB to the tho sheer I face of at tho the cliff curr und and It Is 15 no easy task to collect thorn thomi Needless Needless Need Need- less to say y those which are arc arc Just completed com cum and which have havo not used as a as s nurseries for fOI the young are arc the most valuable Another Chinese ane and Malayan dainty can not bo ho bought In England 18 Is the so called se sea ber This ThIll Is a a. kind of or large lame crawl crawl- crawlIng Ing sea anemone numerous kinds of or which inhabit tropical seas RS e-RS They are aro collected b by divers cured In inthe the sun and sent to Eastern markets by mil mil- million million lion annually Of course cours they donot do donot not resemble the cucumber In taste In fact Europeans who h have vc been In Induced Induced induced In- In to tt try them ate aie not en enthusiastic enthusiastic enthusiastic en- en I In re regard to their flavor Rather poor tor salt fish teems to betho bo bu botho tho general verdict At the tho same time limo It must not ho bo forgotten that the sea sea cucumber constitutes a n. valuable source of or food rood to the yellow races of ot tho the East |