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Show HOW RICE PAPER IS MADE ' I Pulp of Aralia Tree Is Used and Not Rice aa Is Popularly Supposed. The so-called rice paper Is not made from rice, as Its name Implies, but from tlie snow while pith of a smull f tree betonnin to the genus Ar.tll.-i. a 1 genus represented In this country by r the common sursaparllla and the t spikenard. Tho tree grow In Formosa, Formo-sa, and. so far as la known, nowhere I else. t The stems are transported to China t nnd there the rice paper Is made. It I Ik need. aMdo from a number of other ti puipoM, by the native artlbts for ' water color drawliiKS, and sometimes " It Is dyed In various colore and made v Into artillelal flowers. I Tbe t.-Kila of the pith worker comprise com-prise a smooth stone about a foot f'I'ttire and a large knife or hatchet with a short wooden handle. The p blade Is about a foot long, two Inches bro.nl and nearly half an Inch thick at the buck, and It Is as aharp as a razor. Placing a piece of the cylindrical fi llh on the stone, and his left hand n Jti the top. the pith worker will roll " be pith backward and forward for a itoment until be gets It In the re-julrcd re-julrcd poalflon Then, aelilni; tbe knife with bis n lain hand, be will bold the edge of " he blade. aftr a feint or two. clooe o the pith, which be will keep rolling " o the left with his left hand until " lothlng remains to unroll; for the pith las, by the application of the knife, "en pare.1 Into a square white sheet " if nniform thlckneaa. All that re- 1 nalns to' be done Is to square the 'dies If one win roll op a sheet of paper, ay It on the table, place tbe left band m top and gently unroll It to the left ai ie win hve a good I0ea of how the . eat H accomplUhf d. m C A word for the automobile. It woes o tot luorh on the shade treea. M1noo g' ipolla Journal li |