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Show Israelites Were Fed by Bugs Kansas Woman, a Foreign Missionary, Mis-sionary, Makes an Important Discovery. CARRIED MANNA TO PEOPLE How Moses and the Children of Israel Were Fed During Flight From Egypt Is Explained by Miss Oldroyd. tiid when the dew that lay was gone lip, In hold, upon the I Hi e ut tliu wilderness wild-erness there lay a siiull, round tiling, as small a the hoar frost on the ground. And the children of Inruel inn It, and they said ono to unotlici. It is in. mi. i. for they wist not what It wits. And Moses Bald unto them, this bread which the l.oid huth Klven you to eat. . . . But some of Uiem left it until morning, and It bred wurms. . . . and when the sun waxed hut, It melted. Exodus 1G. Kansas City, Mo. It took a University Uni-versity of Kansas woman graduate, Miss Roxanu Oldroyd, of Arkansas City, to prove that the Israelites were fed manna lu the desert ou their flight from Egypt by bugs ! Miss Oldroyd Is now u missionary. Her Interesting discovery was published pub-lished t0 the world by Prof. W. It. Robertson of the aoologlcul department depart-ment of the university. First, trees made the mnnnn thnt was already well known In scientific circles. Then, second, the bugs thnt were thereabouts wuxed Industrious and served it. Cousins of Green Hopper. The bugs in the case are Indian cousins of the American green hopper. hop-per. Their average length Is three-quarters three-quarters of au inch, the female being larger than the male. The bugs are u pule green. These Inticcts, Miss Oldroyd reports, huve been observed to attach u tree lu great numbers when hungry. The trees In question excrete through the holes lu their bark made by the insects, small particles par-ticles of sap, which, after u short time, congeal in oblong formations on the outside of the bark. When Miss Oldroyd, ou a vacation tramp through the northern hills In India, saw these small, round particles attached to the sap-bearing trees, sb- tasted of them and found them 1 palatable. A llltle probing soon c.ni- iliiceil her that here was niatilia nnd j the manner of its provision. In this I she Swiss supported by scientists. D- 1 Until n later trip, however, the manner man-ner In which the manna was carried to the neighborhood of the fleeing Israelites Is-raelites was unknown. However, Miss Oldroyd observed patiently. pa-tiently. She eventually surprised the Insects In the act of flying away with the little bars of sap,. or iniinna, and following In (he wake of their flight she found that the lirst thing a swarm of the Insects would do, If they were frightened or met somothrtig strange In their path, would be to drop their manna. Plain to Scientists. Tt Is perfectly plain, now, say the learned scientists, supporting Professor Profes-sor Robertson, to whom Miss Oldroyd reported and sent two dead bugs and a sample. of the manna they had been caught carrying away. A swarm of hoppers started from the forest with a load of manna, nief the children of Israel and dropped their load. Moses wns caught In the shower and cullod upon his followers to eat thereof. The specimen of manna sent by Miss Oldroyd Is four Inches long and tw Inches thick. It Is sweet to the taw.e and hus the same food properties as maple tree snp. Miss Oldroyd Is a member of the faculty of Henry Thoburn college, Calcutta, Cal-cutta, India. |