Litchfield enquirer., 1861-03-28
AGRICULTURAL.

AGRICULl URAL.
 l JAMES HUMPHREY, JR.-Dens' Sir I senl you recipe which may be of use to your read ers You can publish it or not as you please. HOW TO MAKE GRAPHING WAX.
 Take two parts rosin, one of bees wax, ant one of tallow by weight. Melt the rosin over slow fire; then add the bees wax and talow.- When melted stir well together and pour the mixture into pail of cold water. Grease the hands with lard and pull and work it until it is of light straw color, and the lamps worked out. Aprly to the tree with the fingers. If the wax is of the right temperature it is easily ap piled. and will not stick to the hands if they ar. rubbed with lard. It is not injured by age il worked over when used. D.
 MORRIS, March 18th, 1861.
 COOKING AS AN ART.
 Cooking is both a science and an art, says a writer in the Vruey F1nac,. The remark has more truth in it than many persons are apt to think. To know how to cook areH is a science to know how to cook economically is an art Making money is an art Now. is there not more money made and lost in the kitchen than almost anywhere else? Does not many hard working man have his substance wasted in the kitchen? Does not many shiftless man have his substance saved in the kitchen? A careless
 
 which might as we'll be saved. It is not what we earn. SD much as what we save. that makes us well off. Saving is more difficult art .han earning. Some people put dimes into pies and buildings where others only put in cents; and the cent dishes are the best and healthiest.- Many stupid woman can cook relishabe meal of victuais if she has an abundance of good things with which to do it, But to cook well out of a little, and we'll from scant labor is a real art. This is great accomplishment; for while it will save money, it will save health and while it will save both money and health it will save both patience and love.
 As lively comment on what We have here written, read this
 PLANT OF AN EPICURE.
 Il am dying from irritability produced by eat ing raw mutton-chops, and indigestion produced by potato bullets. My murderer is Betsey Jane our cook. On my tombstone will be inscribed the words, Died from the effects of very plain cook" In vain try to explain to her the chemistry of the first elements of cooking. She fries every ything, and prefers that greasy un- wholesome, soaking mode of cooking to the racy, chastened gridron that gives to chop such a healthy flavor; she prefers baking with its sodden steaming, to juicy roasting and when she boils, she boils things so fast that they are hard, yet u derdone; she has no fore thought she puts things down to roast too late, and then hurres them too much she leaves the pot on the hob when it should be on the fire and she boils at a jumping, pot-lid shaking can ter, when she should simmer with q gentle bub- bling eurgle. In fact, muSically speaking, she takes joint viyace when it should be allegro and at 24 when it should be 6-7. In fact, Bet sey has no sense of the dignity of her art; no knowledge of the solemnty of her mission as the soothsr and noarisher of the human mind through the hunan stomach. She Is always hot and cross Cooking affects the liver and spells the temper J and is Tn d big work, bighead- ed ilrltionai. insensate, miserable hlreling, who turns potatoes into yellow tallow, meat into coke. and bread into soluble lead. l look on her as d perverter of the gifts of Providence, and therefore. as an ally of Apollyon himself. The effect of fire on solids or fluids, the law of boil ing, the nature of imprisoned juice the science of continent, are as unknown to my plain cook as the pleasures of dancing are to a hippopo tamus or the joys of professionalism to the great sea serpent. She never tn nks she did not take my wages to think she is only walking pIate-warmer, q portable laGlp, a human cruet stand she would never kffl herself like the fl- nous Fatel. because the woodchucks did not come in time for the dinner party. Our plain cook is the cause, too. of quamels between me and Mrs. F. Mrs. P. manages Betspy Jaue badly She haggles at her, and speaks at her in cutting side-win,ls that make your flesh creep and make our plain cook haste the meat with a quick fierce vindictiveness, as if she were roast ing Mrs. r. herself for a canni al feast of plain cooks. She hints dreadful things of missus temper" and tells her twice week to suit herself that day month.'
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 PARsoy BRowNLow INDoRsEs L1NcoLNs AD, DREss.-We crowd out much matter in type to make room for the Inaugural address of the new President knowing ths interest felt in seeing it as 1t shows the sentiments of the author, and marks out the course he intends to pursue. We have perused it with cure and without waiting for an expression of opinion by others We give our sentiments. Let the numerous req lers of this paper attentively persue the document, and not rely upon the false and exasperated notices of it. in telegraphic dispatches, and violent southern papers, whose partisan prejudices and bitter hostilities forbid their doing it's author justice. One of the uapardorable falsehoods travelling around is, that the Inaugural repudates the decision of the Supreme Court.
 We endorse the entire address, as one of the best papers of the kind We have seen and we commend it for its temperance and conservat- ism. It is peace-loving and conservative in it's recommendations. and eminentIy firm in it's na- tionality of sentiment. It is out-and-out a Uni on address. worthy of the appreciation of every union and conservative man, South as we'll as North. Had it been delivered by Jackson Polk. or Breckinri'lge, even the cotton states would have declared it to be the height of pol itical perfection. And we uEhesitatn gly affirm that if Line lis inaugural is a true indication of the character of the coming administration all good and true men may congratulate themeves upon his election to the presidency. If carried out. no other peace measure is necessary Let us. then. of the border states, patiently await the developments of the new administration We may be much better off under it than under the late prohigate administration of Buchanan we can't be worsted by four years of repub- lican misrule. If it shall turn out otherwise, we can right ourselves and our wrongs, under the Constitution and without revolution or civil war We shall have no war unless it be forced upon the country by the reckless conduct of the South -KnorriRe Whig
 THE TowN OF H,RTFoRD.-The town of Hart ford, Conn, is making itself conspicuous in na- val affairs. Mir. Toucey, our late Secretary of the Navy is Hartford man, and his successor MT. Welles, is Hartford man. One of our be- steam men of war is the $ Hartford" corvettee, and the fanciest figure headin the service adorns her, and came from the town of Hartford. One of our best Commodores and six of our first Com. manders hail from the vicinity of Hartford and if ss coming events cast their shadows before, the new captain of tke biggest ship in the navy will be Hartford man. We learn, also, that q E Wright, Hartford artist, has been engaged to paint portrait of President Lincoln, for tn, Illinois Legislature, for which he is to receiv,