Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-09
RECIPES, ETC.

| If the crust to bread is wished tender
| as soon as the loaves are taken out of the
| oven wrap them in a wet cloth wrune
| from cold water, and then over it dry
! towel
To Clean Chromos.-Moisten a sof
| cloth, gently wash the face of the chrome
and wipe it dry. The varnish On the sur
face of the picture protects the colors.
Keeping Cider Sweet.-Heat the cider
until it boils, pour into bottles, which
| have been previously heated to prevent
cracking, cork tight and seal immedi
| ately, as in canning fruit. The cider will
keep unchanged for years.
TO have nice bright crisp parsley fol-
winter use, spread thinly, as soon as gath
cred, on piece Of paper, place in cool
oven, leaving the doors open; as soon as
dry, powder it and put into bottle, cork
ing to exclude the air. Other herbs will
discolor if dried in this manner.
"A scientific writer says: If half a
pint of water be placed in a perfectly
clear glass bottle, few grains of the best
white sugar added, and the bottle freely
exposed to the daylight in the window of
warm room, the liquid should not be-
come turbld, even after exposure for a
week or ten days. If the water become
turbid, 1t is open to grave suspicion of
sewage contamination; but if it remain
clear, 1t is almost certainly safe.
In order that people may be happy in
their work, these three things are needed
They must be fit for it; they must not do
too much OF it; and they must have a
sense of success in it, not a double sense,
such as needs some testimony of other
people for its confirmation, but sure
sense, or rather knowledge that so much
work has been well done, and fruitfully
done, whatever the world may say or think
about 1t. So that in order that a man NAV
be happy, 1t is necessary that he should
not only be capable of his work, but a
good judge of his work.-Ruskan.
Women are never bald, that is, with
round, white, shiny, top, like men; be.
cause they never wear close hats or caps,
and men never lose hair below where the
hat touches the head, not if they have
been bald for fifty years. It is the close
hat or cap that does the mischief The
heat and moisture thus retained upon the
scalp weaken and finally destroy the hair
glands: The remedy is sufficiently obvi
Gus. 1t is to wear perfectly ventilated
hat, and wash the top of the head fire.
quently with cold water, rubbing it hard
with the flats of your hands Every one
OF the hair dyes are poisonous, and should
be stunned.
Breaking Colts.-The gentling OF
colts should begin when they are but a
few weeks old. Frequent handling and
occasional sailing or feeding them from
without your hand, and stroking their
necks, are all good practices. From two
to three years old they should be accus,
toned, by degrees, to the saddle and bri
die. Thus treated, breaking becomes an
easy task. When first being driven they
should be harnessed with a good steady
horse. In fact, kindness and firmness
together with good common sense, is what
is needed in breaking colts. And if they
are rightly managed, they will seldom, il
ever, play any tricks. In the first place
they should be made to understand what
is wanted of them, and then, in the proper
way, make them perform accordingly
Ger Rural Neeo Yorker