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Show EVERYDAY FARE IN INDIA. Chickens and Rice the Staple Form of Diet. Tho woman who goes as a missionary mission-ary to India must oxpect to put up with strnngo faro. Miss Mattlo Burgess, Bur-gess, a missionary Just returned from that country, says: "During tho last year of our stay In India wo hnd beef only onco, mutton twice and fish about eight times. Chickens nro so common we got tired of them. In fact, chicken Is about tho only kind of moat to be had. Tho natives aro vegetarians and Boldom oat meat of any kind. A butcher enmo to our city onco a weok and brought gont meat, tho only kind to bo had. Tho natives eat olther rice or bread mado from wheat or n grain peculiar to tho country. It Is n two-moal-a-dny country. Tho llch people live well and hnve dainties, but tho poor Uvo on rlco and vogotnblas. Nolthor knives nor forks nro usod." |