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Show "BREAD" OF STARVING RUSSIA Called' "Lebeda," the Stuff Is Made ol Leaves and Grass, Boiled and Dried. A peasant in the government of Samara Sa-mara (soviet ltussia) told me (f how they make lebeia bread. Here Is the story : "In our village they take some linden lin-den leaves and grass, chop them up to the size of a Ilea, and then boll the mixture. After the water has boiled, they squeeze It out and put the .si lift again into boiling water. Then they let the water run oft through a sieve, and keep the mass until it Is dry. After that they grind it line and add one-third Hour. "The bread you get is green In color and indigestible. And when (here is no Hour, they Just bake the ground niix'.ure as it Is. It does not lasto very badly; but after a man eats It for a while he swells up and gets worms in Ids stomach, and soon after that he dies." Moscow Pravda. Good Psychology. Jud Tn tik Ins says a wcalher pr.,phet is always tempted to predict the hardest hard-est winlor on record, because an an. ilience Is always intcreslcd when It's II little scared. Washington Star. A spinster says If It Is true that man proposes and God disposes, some men fail to do their share. |
