"SO SMART AND HEALTHY"

"When I would get out of bed in the morning I could hardly stand on my feet for weakness and a bearing-down pain. I heard of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and tried it with Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills and used Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash for the white flow, and was doing fine. This was before my little girl was born. She is so smart and healthy and good-natured that I think the Compound must have made her that way."

MRS. RICHARD WILLIAMS, Milltown, New Brunswick.

PLAIN CAKE for Loaf or Layer Cake [Ill.u.s.tration]

Ingredients 2 eggs 1 cup sugar 3 teaspoons Oleo or b.u.t.ter 1/2 cup milk 1/2 teaspoon salt 1-1/2 cups flour 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Method--Beat eggs light, add sugar, b.u.t.ter, milk, salt and all but 2 tablespoons of the flour. Beat well, add vanilla, then add the remainder of the flour with the baking powder, sifted together. Bake in loaf or layer cake pans.

BROWNSTONE CAKE FILLING Ingredients--1/2 cup sugar, 1 square of chocolate, 1 tablespoon cornstarch, a few grains of salt, 1/2 cup of milk.

Method--Mix dry ingredients. Add liquid gradually. Cook in double boiler until thick and creamy.

WEAKNESS MAY SHOW in early girlhood and if attended to at that time and not allowed to develop into serious troubles by carelessness or overwork, girls will grow stronger as they grow older. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is what many mothers give their girls in these early years.

"MY MOTHER-IN-LAW TOLD ME"

"I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female troubles. I would have headaches, backache, pains between my shoulders and under my shoulder-blades, and bad feelings in the lower parts on each side, in the groins. I was sometimes unable to do my work and felt very badly. My mother-in-law told me about the Vegetable Compound and I got some right away. It has done me more good than any other medicine I ever took, and I recommend it to my neighbors."

MRS. EDGAR SIMMONS, R.R. No. 2, Pine Grove, Ontario.

SPONGE CAKE [Ill.u.s.tration]

Ingredients 2 eggs 1/2 cup sugar 1 teaspoon cold water 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice 1 salt spoon salt 1/2 cup flour

Method--Beat yolks until thick and add sugar gradually. Add water and lemon juice. Sift flour and salt into yolk mixture and beat thoroughly.

Fold in the stiffly beaten whites of eggs and bake in a moderate oven.

CRISPETTES Ingredients--2 eggs, 1/2 cup white sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup chopped walnuts or cocoanut, 1/2 cup flour, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, 1/2 teaspoon salt.

Method--Beat eggs very light, add sugar and remaining ingredients. Beat well and drop by tablespoonfuls on a b.u.t.tered pan 2 inches apart. Bake in a moderately hot oven. Always use a tin pan.

A LITTLE CARE when one is young is not much to pay for good health afterwards. Take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for any weakness you may have.

This well-known medicine is recommended by mothers to their daughters, by sisters to one another, and by friends and neighbors to the woman whose loved ones are far from her when she needs them most.

"AM PERFECTLY SATISFIED"

"When my husband was called back to England in 1914, I took Lydia E.

Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to strengthen me so that I could work. My periods were twice a month and used to make me so weak, but I am able to do my work now and am perfectly satisfied with your medicine. I still get it at the chemist's, and strongly recommend it to any one I hear of suffering as I did."

MRS. E. HORNBLOWER, 899 Yonge St., Toronto, Ontario.

WAR CAKE [Ill.u.s.tration]

Ingredients 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup water 2 cups raisins 1/3 cup fat 1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg 1 teaspoon ground cloves few grains salt.

Method--Boil the above ingredients together for three minutes. Let cool.

When cold add 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in 2 tablespoons hot water. Add 2 cups flour in which 1 teaspoon baking powder has been sifted. Bake in a moderate oven.

PANTRY HELPS If b.u.t.ter is too hard to serve, heat a bowl with boiling water and turn the empty bowl over the b.u.t.ter. This will not waste or impair the taste of the b.u.t.ter.

ARE YOU INTERESTED in a letter from a woman in South Africa who takes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound?

"ONE OF YOUR LITTLE BOOKS"

"I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for weakness and because I felt run down. I tried a lot of medicine before I tried yours. One day I was standing on my stoop when a boy came up to me and handed me one of your little books. I read the book, and the next day my husband went to a chemist and bought me a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I have taken the medicine ever since and I feel quite strong and well now as I am on the sixth bottle. I have written to my sister and told her all about the wonders it has done for me, and I am quite willing for you to use my name, as I cannot thank you enough for what it has done for me."

MRS. W.F. RUSH, 128 6th Avenue, Mayfair, Fordesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.

CHOCOLATE CAKE [Ill.u.s.tration]

Ingredients 5 tablespoons b.u.t.ter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1/2 cup milk 1-1/2 cups flour 2 squares chocolate 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 teaspoon salt 2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder.

Method--Cream b.u.t.ter and sugar. Add yolks of eggs beaten until thick, then milk, and all but 2 tablespoons of the flour. Beat thoroughly, add melted chocolate and vanilla. Add remaining flour, salt and baking powder sifted together. Fold in stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Bake in moderate oven.

A PROPRIETARY MEDICINE like everything else that comes before the public, has to prove its merits. The law of the survival of the fittest applies in this field as in others. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been used by women for nearly fifty years.

"I KNOW WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN HELPED"

"My mother had taken Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and when I needed something for my periods I took it and got good results. I recommend it to women with any female troubles, and I know other women who have been helped by it."

MRS. MAX RETZER, Lumsden, Saskatchewan.

"I used to have very bad pains in my back and sides and often was not fit for work. I tried many medicines before I took yours. I saw Lydia E.

Pinkham's Vegetable Compound advertised in the 'Toronto Globe,' and now that it has helped me I recommend it to all my neighbors."

ELIZABETH CAMPBELL, 13 St. Paul St., Lindsay, Ontario.

CHOCOLATE FROSTING [Ill.u.s.tration]

Ingredients 1-1/2 squares chocolate 1 cup sugar 1 cup boiling water

Method--Cut chocolate into small pieces, add sugar and water and stir until blended. Boil until a soft ball forms when dropped into ice-water.

Cool. Beat until creamy and spread on cake.

WHITE FROSTING

Ingredients 1 egg white 1 cup confectioner's sugar 1/2 teaspoon flavoring

Method--Beat the white of egg until stiff. Stir in the sugar and flavoring and beat until creamy.

WHEN A MAN comes home from work at night, he wants to find his home clean and comfortable, his supper ready, his children happy and his wife smiling a welcome to him. These are only natural feelings and when things are the reverse and he has to help do the work, he looks for the cause of the trouble and its remedy. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will help women keep strong and well.

"WITH MY HUSBAND'S HELP"

"I used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for pains across the small of my back. They bothered me so badly that I could do my work only with my husband's help. One day we saw the 'ad' in our paper telling what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is doing for women so I began to take it. It has helped me wonderfully. I am feeling fine, do all my housework and washing for seven in the family. I had been irregular too, and now I am all right. I am telling my friends what it has done for me and am sure it will do good for others. I will stand up for Lydia E.

Pinkham's Vegetable Compound any time."

MRS. WM. JUHNKE, Foster, Oregon

MOCHA FROSTING [Ill.u.s.tration]

Ingredients 3 tablespoons b.u.t.ter 1 cup confectioner's sugar 2 tablespoons cold boiled coffee 2 tablespoons cocoa 1/2 teaspoon vanilla