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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-07
Jinks-Do you expect to move this
BOY TORTURED BY ECZEMA

When my boy was six years old, he
suffered terribly with eczema He
could neither sit still nor lie quietly in
bed, for the itching was dreadful. He
would irritate spots by scratching
with his nails and that only made
them worse. A doctor treated him
and we tried almost everything, but
the eczema seemed to spread. 1t
started in small place on the lower
extremities and spread for two years
until it very nearly covered the back
part of his leg to the knee.
Finally l got Cuticura Soap, Cuti-
cura Ointment and Cuticura Pills and
gave them according to directions.
used them in the morning and that
evening, before l put my boy to bed,
l used them again and the improve
ment even in those few hours was sur
prising, the Inflammation seemed to
be so much less. | used two boxes of
Cuticura Ointment, the same of the
Pills and the Soap and my boy was
cured. My son is now in his sew
enteenth year and he has never had
return of the eczema
Il took care of a friends child that
had eczema on its face and limbs and
used the Cuticura Soap and Ointment.
They acted On the child just as they
did on my son and it has never re-
turned. I would recommend the Cuti-
cura Remedies to anyone. Mrs A. j.
Cochran, 1928 Columbia Ave, Phila-
delphia, Pa, Oct. 20, 1907
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-07
"GIiL" WEIGHS 685 POUNDS
Miss Trixie and Her Little" Brother
Together Tip Scales at Plus
Half Ton.
m E0sUST eGO 70
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Seattle, Wash.-Miss Trixie, the 6S5-
pound Astoria IN. " girl who has
been exhibited all over the country,
gave considerable trouble to the Off
GERS of the steamship Aymeric Miss
Tr1xie. with her brother, Baby Trixie.
are being taken to the big exposition
at Marking, China, to be held this
summer, and when the fat girl arrived
at the wharf the trouble began by the
captain being called on to provide
gangplank sufficiently strong to allow
Miss Trixie to board the ship.
The gang plank was made, but
ten-foot section had to be taken out
OF the ships rail to admit the 92-inch
hips of the fat New York girl Then
how to get her into the cabin and
from the cabin into a state room and
from the state room to a berth large
and strong enough, ETC., ETC., caused
the captain and first officer to have
brainstorms
The two "ch1ldren"-one Is twenty
and the other eighteen-together
weigh 1921 pounds. They will have to
sleep on the floor of their state rooms
on this trip across the Pacific
Miss Trixie was finally settled COM
fortably in the finest room on board
the ship, but her meals will have to be
brought to her, for the door to the
saloon is too small for her girth and
the stairs are too weak to hold her
weight. Strange to say, the fare of
these two heavyweights is the same
as 1t is for a ninety-six- pound China
man who is returning to his father
land.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-07
SOME GOOD SALADS
DISHES THAT CALL FOR LITTLE
PREPARATION.
Mayonnaise With Olives Is One of the
Recognized Standbys-Vesetable
Left-Overs Always to Be
Used to ADVANTAGE.

A Quick Salad-The housekeeper who
Is wise enough to keep small guam
tity of mayonnaise on hand finds many
quick yet delicious salads open to her.
literally at a moments notice.
If kept near the ice the dressing
will remain sweet several days, and
given, say a bottle of olives, a tasty
salad is matter of five minutes prep
aration.
Cut the olives in half and stone
them. Place a few on each plate in a
little nest of lettuce leaves, and top
off each portion with a spoonful of
mayonnaise
salad which may be new to many
home caterers Is composed of two
vegetable left overs, cold cooked cauli-
flower and peas. Break the cauliflower
into rather large pieces, arrange them
In wide circle on crisp lettuce leaves.
In the center of the ring have cup
full or so of cold cooked peas. Sprin-
kle with French dressing or add Ia
blespoonful of mayonnaise to each
portion as it is served
For the entertainer who desires
something a little out of the usual
run of salads there is still another
variation of the popular lemon jelly
combination, which nodded with nuts
has been already described. 1t is
both novel and delicious of flavor.
Tomato and Celery SaIad-Cook
one-half can of tomatoes, three cloves,
one-half bay leaf, one teaspoon of
salt and little red pepper for Is
minutes. Add one-quarter of a box of
gelatine, softened in one-half cup of
cold water Stir until dissolved and
strain into border mold. When firm
turn out on bed of lettuce leaves and
fill the center with finely cut celery,
apple and broken english walnuts,
moistened with boiled dressing.
Waldorf Salad.-This salad is COM
posed of equal parts of celery and
chopped sour apples, dressed with
mayonnaise.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-07
Delicious corned Sect.

Cut a fat brisket piece of beef of the
size desired. Powder a small piece of
saltpeter, as large as a pea, and rub
1t thoroughly all over the meat. Cut
one or two cloves of garlic very fine,
mix with pepper, salt and little gin
ger and rub well into the meat; let it
stand over night. In the morning
make a brine as follows:
Pour three pints of boiling water
over two small cups of salt. let it boil
a few minutes Cool and pour over
the meat. Put in two or three cubes
Of sugar and some allspice. Keep well
under. the brine and 1t will be ready to
use in five days. Wash 1T carefully,
cover with cold water and cook it very
slowly for five hours or until tender.
1t should be well skinned. If to be
used cold, let it cool in the liquid.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-07
BEGINS A WAR ON MOSQUITO
New Jersey County and Several Rail-
roads Cooperate to Exterminate
Pest,

New York.-Escorted by Commits
sioner William Delaney of the Hudson
county board of health, the Bayonne
board of health and Drs. John T. Con-
molly and Charles J. Larkey of the
medical staff of the city have in
spected the rendezvous of the Bay
onne crop of mosquitoes They found
few hundred thousand larvae and
wrigglers. The breeding places were
near the Central railroad tracks.
The Bayonne board decided to ask
the council to make special appro-
priatfon at once, SO the breeding spots
may be destroyed before the mos
quitoes get on the wing, which will
be about ten days hence Prof John
B. Smith. state entomologist, has
promised to have the state pay half
the expense of the fight against the
pests in Bayonns
Commissioner Delaney said a sys-
tematic fight would be made through
out the county and that the Pennsyl-
vania, Central and Lehigh Valley rail-
roads would spend about $4,000 in
their share of the work.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-07
English Sportsman Shows Indig-
nation at Cancellation of Race.
Reference to "Marsports" Demon
strates Fact That Games Calling
for Grit and Determination Are
Dwinding in Popularity.

London.-The woman's role on the
hunting field has been a continual
source of discussion among English
fox hunters, but the close of the pres
ent season sees the subject crop up
In a new light
Point to point races are a regular
feature of the winding up of the hunt
Ing with most of the packs, and of
late years womens races frequently
are included in the program. This
year the Essex hunts point to point
races were to have included a Womans
race, but that event was Cancelled at
the last moment, although FIVE women
had entered.
The incident caused speculation in
hunting circles, and now the affair
gets additional interest from a sporting
challenge by Sir Claude de Crespigny,
who, although over sixty years old, is
fine, all around sportsman and an
adept with the gloves. Sir Claude has
sent the following epistle to an Essex
paper:
AT the point to point meeting l
was informed the women who had in
SO sporting a spirit entered for the
race were furious at the event being
struck off the program. l beg to in
form them that | share their indigna-
tion, and the elimination was without
my knowledge or approval
so far as l can make out some
silly old women, not of female sex,
set about worrying the honorable Sec
rotary, threatening to absent them
selves If the race was left in. What
difference would their nonattendance
have had on the meeting?
"A much greater sportsman than
any of these marsports offered to pro.
duce twelve women from his own hunt
who would pound any twelve men of
any hunt
IF any OF the DIRECTORS resent my
description of them they will know
where to find me-"
Sir Claude's reference to twelve
women who would pound any twelve
men of any hunt gives a point to the
lament raised by a contributor to the
Weekly Nation over the decadence of
British sport. The games which call
for grit and determination, he says.
are dwindling in popularity. He espe-
cially refers to the fact that while fox
hunting attracts larger fields. the
standard of horsemanship has not i'm
proved among men. This, he thinks,
due to the fact that in the rising
generation men for the most part de-
vote their attention to motoring
rather than Craftsmanship.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-07
NO MORE THAN He DESERVED
gette Meeting Probably Sadder
and Wiser Man.

The suffragette meeting was In full
blast Enthusiasm was rampant and
every remark the distinguished leader
made was cheered to the echo
And now we come to personal cour-
age" cried the speaker, excitedIy;
our masculine enemies try to deride
us with such illusions as 'fraiI fem
ininity. or weaker vessels, but we can
show more bravery than men"
Aye, aye, sister," echoed a mighty
chorus
When it comes to real danger We
fear nothing"
Aye, aye, sisterl"
Now, take sister Horn, our worthy
fighter and vote getter of this district
She fears nothing. Two nights In
succession sister Horn came home
from one of our enthusiastic meet
ings and found man under her bed"
There was a short pause Then a
little emaciated chap who had crept
to the front unobserved arose and
stretched his arms.
"H'mi" he calculated, with deep
yawn. I'll bet dollar agin plug
of tobacco that man was her husband
seeking safety"
And when the little emaciated chap
finally recovered his bearings he was
on the sidewalk minus hat and collar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-07
CARE IN MIXING BORDEAUX
secret of Success Is to Put Together
as Dilute Solutions as Is
Possible.

bor1eaux mixture is by far the most
generally useful fungicide we have
Inc copper sulfate or blue vitriol is
the active fungicidal agent, while the
lime Is added to prevent the burning
OF the foliage, which would result
from a pure copper sulfate solution.
Inc usual formula is: Five pounds
copper sulfate, five pounds lime. so
gallons of water.
Many prefer to modify this formula
by reducing the quantity of blue stone
to one pound and increasing the lime
one pound
certain precautions must be OBJ
served IN making bordeaux in order
to obtain ne most efficient mixture
The secres of success is to put to-
gether az dilute solutions as possible
The COPPER sulfate may be con-
Ven1entlEt made up into a stock solu-
ton by dissoIving it ct the rate of one
pound % enc gallon of water. The
amount needed at any time can then
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-07
HORTICULTURAL NOTES.

Don't allow the stock wagons to
pack the sell in the orchard.
Promptly gather up and burn all
brush and rubbish in the orchard
When spraying do not work with
bare hands. They'll be sore If you do.
Put on a pair of rubber gloves
Remove every dead tree from the
orchard. They are veritable breeding
places for fruit pests.
The grape is one of the longest lived
OF all fruit plants. 1t viii live and
bear fruit in one place for hundred
years or more
A coVey OF quail in the orchard will
prove good friend to the grower, be-
cause they eat a tremendous number
of insects.
The city dealer profits by the lazi-
ness of the grower, by grading and re-
packing his badly assorted fruit.
To destroy the wild morning glory
or bind weed, turn in the sheep or
hogs.
The pear tree needs but little cul-
ture. To encourage strong growth
only induces blight. A sod surface
and slow growth is more favorable.
Remember when you pillow in the
orchard that the roots are very near
the surface. Three inches is plenty
deep enough
That corky old apple, the Ben Davis,
still holds high price in the city mar
kets, because its fine appearance de-
ceives the ignorant buyer.
Many farmers who have been grow
ing fruit for years do not know that
the apple and most other fruit trees
form fruit buds in the late summer
months.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-07
Rolled Sandwiches.

Six ounces of cooked chopped chick
en- meat, two ounces of cooked chopped
ham or tongue, two heaping table
spoonfuls of butter, good dust of red
pepper, brown bread, three tablespoon
fuls mayonnaise two tablespoonful
chopped parsley. Add the butter to
the chopped chicken meat. ham or
tongue, mix thoroughly, add red pep
per. parsley, and rub through sieve.
Cut some slices of brown bread, trim
off the crusts and butter the slices.
Mix the PURGE above prepared with
the mayonnaise, and spread the but
tered side of the bread with this. Roll
up firmly each slice; then roll in wax
paper. Any other kind of cooked meat
may be used in place of chicken.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-07
to the trade as Tag

screws-large, sugar-headed screws
which can be gotten in various sizes.
Those preferred are six inches in
length and three-eights of an inch in
diameter, which l find are priced at
SIPS per 100, or 20 cents per dozen.
A blacksmith turns a hook at the
head-ends of the screws. Holes are
bored in the two parts of the tree
which are separating, in which the
screws are solidly turned connecting
them with heavy wire cable. The
screws should be given such a posi-
ton that there will be a straight
pull on them, thus eliminating danger
of splitting the branch. The cable is
formed by using two rounds" of
heavy, galvanized wire from hook to
hook, which is then twisted up taut
by inserting between the wires a piece
of buggy spring or other fiat piece of
iron or wood, and turning until the
divisions of the tree are brought in
close contact at the point of separa-
ton.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-07
Berlin Specialist Claims to Have
Found Cure for Tired Feeling
Experiments With Dogs.

Berlin.-Prof. Loewy of the Berlin
Agricultural High school, a famous
specialist. has arranged SO that no
body need ever be tired any more
has found how to inoculate us against
that exhaustion of vital energy which
we call getting tagged out Perfectly
serious he is about it.
He has discovered that substance
called spermin injected under the skin
removes the symptoms of exhaustion
and enables weary creatures to go,on
working long after nature usually
cries Halt"
Some trained dogs were set like
prisoners to run everlastingly uphill
over an electrically driven treadmill.
They were kept at this until the poor
beasts looked ready to drop with ex-
haustion and the chemical tests
showed that the drain on what consti-
tutes energy in dogs and men was too
great to be longer maintained. Then
the professor injected large doses of
spermin under the dogs hides.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-07
Smallest Infant In World Had Power
to Move Amusement Park Brass
Band and Stand.

Chicago.-The tiniest baby In Chi
cago, and probably the smallest In
FAINT in the world the other day, had
the power to move a brass band and
a band stand.
The little one is a baby girl weigh
ing Is ounces She was born at
South Chicago. The family physician
rushed the tiny mite to a Riverview
infant incubator to be scientifically
cared for until it could be safely
handled at home. In the meantime a
band stand and bally hoo band had
been planted so feet from the incu-
bator building to attract the crowd.
The first bally hoo piece was Baby
Mine" The little one strenuously OBJ
jected. She wanted to sleep.
Mrs. Couny. M. D., who has charge
of the babies, protested. She said 1t
was case of life or death for the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-07

Fortunately" he continues, "the
women seem, upon the whole, to ride
better than they used to do, and to
be growing keener about it. Plenty
of men will, of course, tell you that
women who ride across country quite
fearlessly do so in almost every in
stance through ignorance of the
danger.
That theory is false one. Dozens
of times l have seen women, who
well know the risks they ran in taking
certain lines OF country when the
hounds are running hard, give men
who were hesitating at an awkward
fence a lead over, for woman's intui
ton and her quickness of thought and
decision serve her in the hunting field
just as they do elsewhere.
1T is curious, but it may be sig
nificant, that while the vast proper
ton of men of the welI-to-do class
needing neither nerve nor grit, the
women are becoming more addicted
to games and forms of sport that call
for the risk of limb and sometimes
life.
Whether the fashion of riding
astride, which steadily has spread
since Mrs. Alex Tweedie set the ex-
ample, IS to be recommended 1t is
hard to say
When one notes how the women of
England are growing taller, stronger
and harder, while there is a general
tendency toward physical degenera-
ton in men, one wonders If an Anna
zonian England is a possibility of the
future.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-07
Grating Trees.

Waxing is one of the most impor-
tant factors in successful grating.
The work must be done carefully, that
the scions be not disturbed, and COM
pletely, that all air and moisture shall
be excluded. A very good wax is
made by melting together four pounds
of resin, two pounds of beeswax and
one pound of tallow. When melted
pour into tub of cold water to cool;
then pull, the same as for taffy, until
it is of clear golden color. OF
course grating should be done on
warm, bright days; otherwise the wax
hardens SO quickly IT Is difficult to
do the work well. Young trees ma,
be retopped in a single seas;In; :
tree eight to ten years old In two
years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-07
ParIors to Be Established In All Parts
of Gotham to Accommodate
Fair Sex.

New York-Innoyations in the form
of women shoe sinners are to be intro
duced TO New Workers in the near fu-
ture by the United Shoe Shining con-
pany. The women are to shine the
shoes of the members of the fair sex
in parlors that will be established in
all parts of the city for them exclu-
sively.
Other parlors for men will be estab-
hshed In all the principal hotels, con-
gregating places and street corners.
At least the prospectus of the COM
pany says so. The company declares
it has an authorized capital of $780,
600, with shares at one dollar each.
The stock is being underwritten at So
cents share.
Shoes will be cleaned and polished
according to the very latest ideas,
the prospectus states. and shabby
places will have to give way to con
veniently located. sanitary, orderly
and tasteful establishments, where
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-07
important to Mothers

Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA, safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-07
India Relish.

Measure three quarts of green toma-
toes, after chopping them, and add to
them one quart of chopped onions and
six red or green peppers, chopped fine
Put these ingredients into a cheese
cloth bag and hang where they can
drain all night In the morning put
the vegetables into preserving kettle,
add to them one and one-half pounds
brown sugar, one-half cup of salt, three
tablespoonfuls Of ground mustard, two
tablespoonfuls of turmeric, three table
spoonfuls Of celery seed and one quart
of vinegar. Boil all together for one
hour and seal hot
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-07
HELIOTROPE TREE is SWEET
Well Grown Specimen Is Seldom
Without Its Lovely Delicousy
Scented Lavender Flowers.
CBy JOSEPHINE DE MARR9

10y JOSERf1IINE LIE
A novel decorative plant, sweet and
beautiful, Is the heliotrope, when
grown as a standard" Secure a
small heliotyope, seeding if pos
sible, and grow it rapidly all summer
by giving it sun, water and reporting
it when required, for it is essential
that this plant never become stunted
from drought, or pot bound.
Let the main stem grow unchecked
until it is three or four feet high, but
pinch, or rather rub, off all the side
shoots. When the stem is the desired
length, say four feet, pinch out its
top, and when the side shoots appear
and are five or six inches long, they
too are topped. This pinching is
given all shoots until the head is the
desired size.
All this time the shifting has been
kept up, and by the time the head of
our specimen is 21a feet through it
is growing in a 12-inch pot When
they have attained 16-inch pot they
are considered full grown and the
shoots allowed to grow and bloom as
they will. which is almost continu-
ally from June to frost.
This plant ehrives in rich loan and
well rotted manure, half and half.
with enough sand to make the soil
friable.
Keep the plants outdoors all sum-
mer and at the approach of frost re-
move to a cool room, greenhouse or
light cellar. Bear in mind that any
plant grown as a standard must be
well staked at all times; often and
generously top dressed, given liquid
manure. and never allowed to become
pot bound.
A well grown specimen is seldom
without its lovely. deliciously scented
lavender flowers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-07
Iunkef Variation.

That time-honored dish of the in
valid, junket, would scarcely be rec
ognized when prepared with an egg.
Beat the milk until lukewarm, then
stir in lightly beaten egg to every
pint. Pass through a strainer and add
the rennet in the usual way. Sugar,
wine, vanilla or other f1avoring is
added to the milk before rennet.
This gives consistency enough to
turn from cups as q custard Heap top
with whipped cream in coils or roses
by passing through pastry tube.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-07
Pork Chops With Green Peppers.

One tablespoonful of butter in a fry.
ingpan and heat; put in pork chops
and brown quickly on both sides;
cover NTH boiling water and one green
pepper chopped fine, adding the seed
also; season with salt and let simmer
one-half to three-quarters of an hour.
Thicker the gravy with -four and wa
ter and pour over the chops when serv-
recipe can be prepared early in the
day with the exception OF thickening
the gravy, whieh should be done just
before serving.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-07-07
Try This. This Summer.

The very next time you're hot, tired
or thirsty, step up to a soda fountain
and get glass of Coca-Cola. 1t will
cool you off, relieve your bodily and
mental fatigue and quench your thirst
delightfully."-. At soda fountains or
carbonated in bottles-5c everywhere.
Delicious, refreshing and wholesome.
Send to the Coca-Cola Co, Atlanta,
Ca, for their free booklet The Truth
About CocaCola." Tells what Coca
Cola IS and why it is so delicious, re-
freshing and thirst-quenching And
send &c stamp for the Coca Cola Base
ball Record Book for 1910-contains
the famous poem Casey At The Bat"
records, schedules for both leagues
and other valuable baseball informa
ton complied by authorities.