Show grew in eden the greater part pan of the black licorice Is derived from spain where it Is rondo made from tile the juice of the plant and mixed with starch to prevent present it from froin inciting in hot weather tho the licorice plant Is a shrub that atta attains lits a height of three feet and it grows wild where its roots reach tile the water it nourishes flourishes especially on the banks of the tigris and euphrates rates rivers since the valley of the euphrates contained one of the tha earl earliest leet in toe the world the probability Is that licorice Is about the oldest confection of all and the taste which the boys and girls of today oday like so well waif enjoyed by the youngsters of three thousand years I 1 W |