Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-30
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

SODA should be bought IN small guam
titles, then powdered, sifted and kept
tightly corked in a large mouthed bottle.
1t grows damp if exposed to the air, and
can't be used properly.
CALIFORNIAN 'CREAM.-The whites OF
two eggs, two spoonfuls OF loaf sugar,
two of raspberry jam, two OF curfant Jel-
ly; all to be beaten together until so thick
the spoon will stand alone in it.
A SIMPLE and harmless application for
ring-worm is found by washing with a
solution made from the root of the com
mon narrow eafed dock, which belongs
to the botanical genus Rumex. Use
vinegar for the solvent.
BLANC NANCE Excellent and easy.)
= One quart Of milk, one ounce gelatine,
sugar to sweeten to taste; put it on the
fire and keep stirring until it is all melted,
then pour it into bowl and stir it until
it is cold; season with vanilla; pour it
into a mold, and put it into cool place
to stiffen.
If you desire little curiosity on your
flower stand, take an old sponge, place in
a glass vase or stand, and sprinkle on it a
quantity of grass-seed. Moisten it every
day, and in a short time your sponge will
be beautiful and green. The seed grows
fast, and the whole thing is inexpensive,
while at the same time it is pretty.
WEAK EYEs.-Bathe your eyes night
and morning in d tolerably strong solu-
ton of salt and water. We have known
some remarkable cures effected by this
simple remedy. After bathing the eyes
daily for about a week, intermit a day or
two, and then resume the daily bathing,
and so on till your eyes get strong again.
Science Of Healh.
BRONCHTTIs.-A simple, but oftentimes
efficacious remedy, is this. 1t may afford
relief: Sirup of tolu, one ounce; sirup Of
squills, half an ounce; wine of ipecac,
two drains; paregoric, three drains;
mucilage of gum arabic, one and half
ounces. Mix. Take teaspoonful three
times a day.-RuraJ NeW Yorker.
WHITE MOUNTAIN CAKE.-One pound
Of white sugar, one teacup Of butter, half
a cupful of sweet milk, the whites of ten
eggs, half a teaspoontul of soda, one tea
spoonful cream Of tartar, three cups of
-four. Flavor with vanilla or almond.
Bake in jelly cake-pans with icing be-
tween. Icing for the cake: One pound
of fine white sugar, the whites of three
eggs. The flavor Of grated cocoanut is
very nice in It.
PERU CUsTARD. Make a custard with
one pint of cream, two eggs, one cup of
sugar. Flavor to suit the taste. Place it
in glass dish and lay sliced cake over it.
Whip whites of eggs to froth, stir in pull
verified sugar, and spread over the cake;
ornament with colored sugar sand. Or
instead of the whites of eggs, stir pow
dered sugar into ounce or apple jelly and
spread over the cake.
Mock CREAM ToAsT.-(A delicious side
dish at breakfast). Melt in one quart of
mornings milk about two ounces of but
ter; large teaspoonful Of flour freed
from Jumps, and the yolks of three eggs,
beaten light; beat these ingredients to-
gether several minutes; strain the cream
through fine hair sieve, and when want
ed heat it slowly, beaten constantly with
brisk movement; it must not boil, or it
will curdle and lose the appearance OF
cream; when hot, DIP the toast; if not
sufficiently seasoned with butter, add
salt; send to the table hot, the cream not
taken up by the toast, in a ravy-bowl.
A MOST excellent ointment for hands
that are scratched, burned or sore is thus
prepared: Take three drains of camphor
gum, three of white beeswax, three of
spermacet, two ounces of oIive-oil-put
them together in a cup upon the stove
where they will melt slowly and form
white ointment in few minutes If the
hands be affected, anoint them on going
to bed, and put on pair of gloves. A
day or two will suffice to heal them. For
chapped hands, instead Of washing the
hands with soap, employ oatmeal, and
after each washing take a little dry oat-
meal and rub over the hands, so as to alb
sorb any moisture Chicago Ilter-O Ocean.