€ A KiCE Substitute, 
meats to give ic r flavour, Thrt jaioe oon- 
taioed in tbe tuber ia of sp'cial laduatrial 
valoe m it enters tbe oomposkion of laaoet 
and aloohuUg beveragea. 
Tahioos UBBe 
The yont'g shoots, b^ilad iii water make 
«n friceilsnti vegetable. The y^aDg iea'-es of 
the sweet tap-osa, whan bott^d arid Heaaooed 
or £ ie 1 wiub batter make a wb >l«S )me diah 
Tery maob like spmach THplot^a fit>ar has 
83EceileQt keepitig qnftlides and If pUoed In 
a dry reoepcacle wttbt^ai- betog hermetioally 
cloaed will keep for a year or more ; like 
Bvexf other fl ar, it has sandry asea ; it 
fliade toto bre^d^ c>ikea, porridge, eto« ■ 
Steerage paa^eog'^ta on Wnrd French 
liners balonbia^ to i,h^ weU-k'^wn Com- 
psji^nie dea Charj^eur^ R nnU " have their 
daiSy ration of 600 grains of rice made good 
by an equivaVnt qtiantity of tapiac% and 
this cbanK^ w aa solely made at the spec 'a! • 
cequettt of Affiean native travpllera who 
profess ^reftt fundcess for (hit food. Tapi* 
00 A meal or p^mnce is very often mnde inro 
an iorimt^rial inbstar ce caHfid tHpioca, but) 
in coontries where it grons iu abanrianc^, 
it in kept in its origlaal form nutil reqoired 
for the table. As a maunfactared pro due I: 
it tnAkei a very lljjhb fooif, easily riigested 
and snited far rhe feeding l£ infantB 
and iovalids. It acqatres its his^hly d^gea- 
tlble qumUties from tb^ chnnge wrongbb 
th'-oagb the ac'ion r»f heat on etarch which 
becones partiAlly solnble in wat-er and this 
solability adapt-a it, a food to the weakest; 
stomachHi evsD when the digestive organs 
fleem to have proclaimed a life-long strike. 
