Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-23
RECIPES, ETC.

One of the TEST directions to follow
for success in society is this: Talk to the
Young ones, and listen when the old ones
talk to you.
Picked Onions-Peel off the outer
skin of small onions, boil them until clear
or half cooked, in salt and water, and
throw them while smoking hot into jar
of cold vinegar, spiced as for BEANS
For a waterproof varnish, take of
India-rubber one and a half ounces, bisul-
phuret of carbon, one pint; digest in the
cold until the solution is complete Or
take linseed oil one gallon, dried white
copperas and sugar of lead, each three
ounces, litharge eight ounces; boil with
constant agitation until it strings well,
then cool slowly and decant the clear por-
ton. II too thick, thin down with quick
drying linseed oil.
-Cocoanut Candy.-Rasp very fine "a
sound, fresh cocoanut, spread 1t on dish,
and let it dry naturally for three days.
-Four ounces will be enough for pound
of sugar for most tastes, but more can be
used at pleasure Boil the sugar, and
when it begins to be very thick and
white, stew in the nut; stir and mix it
well, and do not quit it for an instant UNI
til it Is finished Keep the pan little
above the fire to prevent the nut from
burning.
-Croton Bugs-For the purpose of
Kidding our houses of this troublesome
pest, the expedient of placing washing
bowls in their favorite haunts, first plac-
ing little water and syrup in the bowl,
and piece of rough wood reaching from
the floor to the edge, has been recon-
mended. Thousands enter these fatal
traps, easily scaling the wood, but the
slipperiness of the sides prevents their
exit, and the colony may thus be nearly
destroyed in single night.
The delightful mornings are at
hand-near at hand-when one arises
from his warm bed in the dark; can't
find a match; hunts round with feet like
frozen buildings; goes down to find the
servant has forgotten to fix the fire in the
CRATE ready for lighting; gets ashes and
SCOT in his hair and On his hands; finds
the coffee has given out; eats cold
breakfast and starts off to work, thankful
for all things that make us happy, and
rejoicing in this invigorating weather.
Nothing so strongly indicates the
man of pure and wholesome thought as
habitual purity of speech. By his con-
versation among his own kind you may
always pretty accurately form an opinion
as to the moral worth of a man. 1t is
there, where no restraint is supposed to
be placed upon his words, that you dis
cover his true nature. If he be given to
looseness of DISCOURSE or his mind wan
ders to the discussion of subjects pro-
scribed in mixed company or respectable
society, you may justly mark him as one
with whom association is undesirable
The Best Ventilation.-A furnace in
the cellar may be good to take the chill
from the house, and to heat its halls and
passages, but it ought not to supersede the
fire place in parlor and chamber, at once
the ventilator of the room and its center
of cheer and joy. No apparatus of venti-
lation has yet been devised equal to the
old fashioned chimney. Even when no
fire is made in the aperture, this avenue
to the open air draws its currents and
keeps the atmosphere pure. Where there
is no open fireplace, no free tiue, there
will be a sense of asphyXia in those
stormy nights when the windows must be
fastened close. Every room in the house
which is used to sit in or sleep in ought
to have a sufficient opening into the
chimney, larger than the orifice Of a
stove pipe. No matter if the heated air
escapes by it; it is better to lose half of
the heated air than to be breathing stag
nant air that is already deprived of its
oxygen. In the spring and autumn the
fireplace, with wood on the andirons,
gives all the heat that will be needed and
gives it more gracefully than the blasts
from any registers. '-Heraid Of Health.