Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-06-24
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

STRING BEANS.-Should be strung,
broken in pieces, and boiled an hour or
two, and seasoned the same as shelled
beans
HERE seem to be few people who
know 1t, but it is said to be nevertheless
true, that if you hold between your teeth
pair OF scissors, steel knife, or almost
any other iron or steel substance, you will
not weep during the process of peellng
onions.
FRENCH ToAsT.-Beat four eggs very
light, and stir with them pint of milk :;
sllce some bakers bread, dip the pieces
INTO the egg, then lay them in pan of
hot lard and fry brown; sprinkle little
powdered sugar and cinnamon on each
piece and serve hot If nicely prepared,
this dish is quite equal to waffles
WHEN you want to send her line by
postal card, write with the following
preparation: Ten grains of hypho- sulphite
OF soda in sixteen teaspoonfuls of water
Then, you see, the postoffioe clerks won't
know what you write. Heat brings out
the writing.
For chilblainS cut up two white turnips
without pairing into thin slices; put the
slices into a tin cup with three large
spoonfuls of best lard; let it simmer slow
ly for two hours, then mash through a
sieve; when cold spread it on soft linen
cloth and apply to the chilhlain at night.
oil
two chickens, remove the skin, and in tax
ing the meat from the bones keep the light
and dark separate. Chop and season with
salt and pepper to taste, and place in al
ternate layers the dark and white meat in
a meat-press, or other mold, adding lit
tie of the liquor in which it was boiled
When cold, cut in slices. 1t makes de
licious sandwiches.
CLOUD CAKE.-Whites of five eggs, one
cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter, two
cups of -four, two teaspoonfuls baking
powder and two teaspOonfuls lemon es-
sence; red analine size of small pea,
spoonful of hot water on it. Take a lit
tie more than half cup of cake batter,
mix the thorOughly-dissOlved analine well
into it. Put in a layer Of cake, drop the
rose-colored batter around over it, another
layer Of cake, then more rOse-calle, and
so on. Frost and finish with white and
rose-colored almonds if you like,-Ilater-
Ocean.
ALL carpenters know how soon the butt
end of chisels split when daily exposed to
the blow of a mallet or hammer. A rem
edy to prevent this consists simply in
saving or cutting off the round end of
the handle, so as to make it flat, and to
attach by a few small nails on the top of
it two round disks of sole-leather, so that
the end becomes similar to the heel of
boot. The two thicknesses Of leather will
prevent all further splitting, and if in the
course of time they expand and overlap
the wood of the handle they are simply
trimmed off all around
IF TWO persons are to occupy bed
room during the night, let them step on a
weighing scale as they retire, and then
again in the morning, and they will find
that their actual weight is at least apound
less in the morning. Frequently there
viii be a loss of two or more pounds, and
the average loss throughout the year will
be pound of matter, which has gone off
from their bodies, partly from the lungs
and partly through the skin. The escaped
matter is carbonic acid and decayed ami
NAL matter OF poisonous eXhalatiOn. This
is diffused through the air in part, and
part absorbed by the bed-clothes. If a
single ounce of OOl-cOttOn be burned in
a room, it will so completely saturate the
air with smoke that one can hardly
breathe, though there can only be one
ounce of foreign matter in the air. If an
ounce of cotton be burned every half hour
during the night the air will be kept con-
tinually saturated with smoke, unless
there be an open window or door for it to
escape. Now, the sixteen ounces of
smoke thus formed is far less poisonous
than the sixteen Of exhalations from the
lungs and bodies of two persons who have
lost pound of weight during the eight
hours Of sleeping; for, while the dry
smoke is mainly taken into the lungs, the
damp odors from the body are absorbed
both into the lungs and into the pores of
the whole body. Need more be said to
show the Importance of having bedrooms
well ventilated, and of thoroughly airing
the sheets, coverlids and mattresses in the
before packing them up in the
form Of a neatly-made bed ?-EGcb0nge.
Remedies for the Gapes in Turkeys
and Chickens.