The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-09-16
HOUSEHOLD HELPS.
From the Detroit Free Press Household.
At the COnrrctIOuern.


CoooANUT CARAMELs.- cups of
grated cocoanut, one cup of sugar, two
tablespoonfuls of flour, the whites of
three eggs beaten stiff; bake on but
tered paper in quick oven.
LEMON DRoPs.-Upon half a pound
of finely powdered sugar pour just
enough lemon juice to dissolve it and
boil to the consistency of thick syrup !;
drop this on plates and put in 3 warm
place to harden. ne.
CHOCOLATE CARAMELs.- cup of
sweet milk, one cup of molasses, half a
cup of sugar, half cup of grated choc-
olate, piece of butter the size of a
walnut; stir constantly, and let it boil
until it is thick then turn it out on to
buttered plates and when it begins to
stiffen mark it in squares, so that it will
break readily when cold.
| CoCoANUT CANDY.-Four cups of water.
two and half cups fine white sugar,
four spoopfuls of vinegar, a piece OF
butter as large as an egg boil till thick
| about three-quarters of an hour. Just
before removing stir in one cup desic-
Gated cocoanut and lay in small fat cakes
on buttered plates to cool and harden.
Boston CARAME1s. One pint bowl of
Bakers grated chocolate, two bowls of
| yellow sugar, one bowl of New Orleans
molasses, one-half cup of milk, piece
of butter the size of small egg and
vanilla flavor boil about twenty five
minutes this should not be so brittle
as other candies. Pour in buttered tins
and mark deeply with knife.
EUERToN TAFFY.-In shallow vessel
melt together one pound of brown sugar
and one quarter pound of butter; stir
together for fifteen minutes, or until the
mixture becomes brittle when dropped
IN cold water. Lemon or vanilla flavor
ing should be added before the cooking
is complete. Butter fiat plate and
pour the taffy upon it to cool. When
partly cold mark in squares with a
knife. ~ ''''
CHOCOLATE CREAM DRoPs Mix one
half cup of cream with two of white
| sugar, boil and stir full five minutes
| set the dish into another of cold water
and stir until it becomes hard. Then
make into small balls about the size OF
marbles and with fork roll each one
separately in the chocolate, which has
in the meantime been put in bowl over
the boiling tea kettle and melted put
on brown paper to cool; favor with
vanilla if desired. This amount makes
about fifty drops. ...-...-
sa.-.a The Value of Life.
| One of the interesting specuIations
recently started in England has for 8
subject the present value of life as COM
pared with its value when mankind did
not spend half of its time in studying
the problem of prolonging life. One
of the leading London physicians de-
clares that men were happier and bet
ter, and lived nobler lives, before the
pursuit of health and the yearnings for
| longevity became craze almost
amounting to madness, and before the
questions what to eat, drink and to
avoid, and what to wear, and how to
live, by what means to avoid infection,
| to keep off disease, and to escape death
for few weary and wearied years, were
the all-engrossing ones. Another urges
that the i" survival of the fittest," SO far
DIS blIS race 10 COuCCAuOuS 10 SISdJ LIS
take; and that humanity in general
would bel great deal better off if there
were less of the loving labor now ex-
pended in prolonging the lives Of the
weak, diseased and crippled. "
There is no danger that either of these
views will find general acceptance. The
world has become SO accustomed to
studying the laws of health and long
life, and enjoys the study so much, that
it is not likely to abandon it, even for
the purpose of bringing back the happy
| days when men didn't care anything
about diet and drainage and pure air.
There is just as little danger of any
retrogression in the matter of caring
for the sick and helpless. 1t may be
worse for the race, in one aspect of the
case, to prolong lives of suffering and
to interfere with the natural process
which extinguishes the weaklings in a
few generations. But what the race
loses in this way it is repaid an hundred
fold in the cultivation and expansion Of
its finer emotions, detroit Free Press.