Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

ALWAYS fill coal-oil lamp every day
before using. The bowl should never be
allowed to get empty and be lighted in
that condition, for the vacant space is al
ways full of explosive gas-Cor. Prairie
Farmer.
LIQUID fertilizer "suitable for house
plants" or similar purpose, is prepared
by stepping partially decomposed manure
from the cow-stables IN WATERMAN pre-
ferred. By filling hogshead placed in
an clubhouse about one-third full of the
manure, and the remaining space with
water, preparation of sufficient strength
VIII result. If very dark dilute with pure
water
HE manner of cooking spinach is as
simple as the cooking of any kind of
greens. A little water in kettle sea-
soned with salt and boiling Some add a
little soda when the water is hard, the size
OF pea. The fire should be hot and the
herb pressed into the pot and kept down
by frequent turning and crowding, so that
the whole may be cooked alike. The
very instant it becomes tender, which you
know by testing, turn into a colander to
drain a few seconds then dish in a tureen
with drainer, or IN a common vegetable
dish with saucer inverted in the bottom
Place it IN hot warming closet, drain off
the water, butter and pepper and eat i'm
mediately. 1t is dish the gods might
covet.-Detroat Tribune
CANNED FRUIT.-A correspondent in a
recent issue of the New York Tribune
says: q made a discovery year ago
which will benefit every family in the
United States if they will follow it, in can
ming fruit. 1t is this: Take any old fruit
can, only have it tight, no matter how
much the tin is off on the inner surface,
and place one sheet of note paper (com-
mercial-note size), around the inside. It
can be done very easily, and will, if done
right, stay just where it is placed. Then
put the fruit in the can in the usual way,
and my word for it, when Mrs. Jones or
Mrs. Smith comes to take tea next winter
they will not stick up their noses when
tasting the fruit taken out of one of the
paper-coated cans, and say the fruit tastes
tinny. On the contrary, they will say it
is just as perfect as when put up in new
cans. | know there are thousands OF
farmers, like myself, that have their
gardens and cellars filed with old cans.
II paper-coated they will be just as good
as new. The paper need not be pasted in,
as some may think, for it will remain in
its place without paste
SwEET-PoTATo VINE.-This is really a
very desirable vine for the house. 1t is a
rapid grower and is much more delicate
in appearance under house culture than
when growing out of doors. If vine of
this kind is desired, select well-ripened
tuber Of the Red Nansemond variety, as
this kind is said to be the most vigorous
grower. If your potato is eight or ten
inches long and four or five inches in di-
ameter it will be about the right size A
dark-colored hyacinth glass is a suitable
and pretty holder for the potato, but
common glass fruit-can or small earthen
jar will do. Fill the vessel with rain
water and stand the potato in the mouth
of it, allowing only two or three inches of
the potato to go down into the water. Set
it in warm, bright place to sprout, filling
up the holder with water IS fast as it
evaporates. Probably a great many sprouts
will start at once or in quick succession :;
break off all but three or four of these, as
your vine will by so doing be much longer
and more luxuriant. Nothing more will
be needed for the perfection of this vine,
except Ito keep the vessel containing it filled
with rain water.-N. 7. Tribune