It is starch obtained from the inside of the mode of preparing the tapioca is seen in the trunks of palms, and other trees. They accompanying sketch. The roots of the are cut down, and the tissue containing the plant, after it is dug up, are bruised and starch being scraped out, the sago is pre- placed in a bag, to allow the juice to drain pared in much the same way as arrow-root. out, which is collected in a vessel, into which Many plants yield starch in their stems, the Indian plunges his arrow, so as t which, on being prepared, is called sago by poison its point. After the root is drained Europeans. The sago which is sold in the it is taken out of the bag, and submitted t shops of England, is principally imported a process such as we have described for from the islands of the Indian Archipelago, preparing arrow-root. Cassava, which and is the produce of a palm called the true eaten by the natives, is procured from th sago palm, or Sagus laris. There is, how-same plant, but is prepared in a different There are many other well-known plants which owe their dietetical properties to the starch they contain; amongst these we ma mention the potato, the carrot, the turnip the parsnip, the cabbage, the Jerusalem artichoke. From any of these, starch might THE foregoing engraving representa a Font, such as would be suitable for a Church designed in the Middle, or Decorated period of Architecture. The to drawing is made to a scale of one eighth the size required for an actual th font; but, as a very suitable object f exhibiting Papier-Plastique work, out would be best to make it of the seda here represented. 4 pie The framework consists of four parts -The Traceried Panels; the Octag the Shaft; the Steps; and the Bowl, shown in the plate. elime ei The way to construct such an omn ment is as follows:-Take a strip, an cardboard eight times the length of from 0 A to B (fig. 2.); half-cut it at the eqare distances represented by A, B, and the last leave a piece to answer aspon flange to secure it together. Cut ouses with punches all the round or parts of the design carefully; having first cut one out on a spare piece pa wedge nd bo at the the b Relestal D are to , ac card done b tries an be unr the Step be form me pla Batting the ste ent an tent to dboard-with this as a pattern, mark out | it, and it should be perfectly dry previously each of the eight sides of the Font the to attempting to cut it, otherwise it will k previous to punching. Two punches come to pieces. y will be required for the cution of the work, the being carefully cut with a fe. Cut out entirely the es shaded and back the e with a piece of crimson ret. Text, form the sloping part the bottom of the Bowl 3); the lines marked thus being half-cut 4. le Pedestal must be cut as first cut, and these are to be backed m in that position. B FIG. 4. The Fringe at the bottom of the large octagon needs no further explanation than that it is formed chiefly with the small round punch and the knife. The Mouldings at the top and bottom of the richly traceried pannels, are to be FIG. 5. The moulding at the base of slope is to | formed of strips of card half-cut, as shown formed of a strip of cardboard (fig. 5), in fig. 6. B is to be gummed on the back of f-cut as follows, suffi ntly long to admit of ste. This must be atly mitred when put with a good sharp ife, or what is better, azor. d The strip when formed gummed should be ld in its place until dry, winding cotton round |