Method--Cream the b.u.t.ter and sugar, add the remaining ingredients and enough more sugar to make it creamy.

Plain icing may be made by moistening confectioner's sugar with milk or water (either hot or cold) and adding flavoring. Either this or white frosting may be used as a foundation for nuts or chopped fruit. Orange frosting may be made by moistening the sugar with orange juice.

HOWEVER BUSY a woman is she always finds time to read the daily papers. And she may read the Bargains first and the Weather Report last, but she always reads the testimonial letters advertising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She wants to know what experience other women have had with this great medicine.

"WHEN MY DAUGHTER WAS THIRTEEN"

"When my daughter was thirteen and until she was fifteen she suffered every month so that she could hardly move around the house and when she would have the pains in school she would have to be carried home. She also had headache, dizzy and faint spells, and soreness in her back. I saw your advertis.e.m.e.nt in the 'Hamilton Spectator' and got Lydia E.

Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for her. She does not have the least bit of trouble now, and we both recommend your medicine. She works in a candy-shop now and seems well and strong. I give you permission to publish this letter as a testimonial."

MRS. I.P. CLAUSE, 83 Oxford St., Hamilton, Ontario.

LEMON PIE WITH MERINGUE [Ill.u.s.tration]

Ingredients 3/4 cup sugar 3 tablespoons cornstarch 1 cup boiling water 3 tablespoons lemon juice and grated rind 1 tablespoon b.u.t.ter 2 egg yolks

Method--Mix sugar and corn starch thoroughly, pour boiling water over them, stirring constantly. Cook until thick and until starch is well done. Add lemon juice and b.u.t.ter. Cool slightly and add egg yolks. Pour into plate lined with pastry and bake until paste is cooked. Or pour into crust already baked.

MERINGUE Ingredients--2 egg whites beaten stiff, 2 to 4 tablespoons of powdered sugar, a few drops of vanilla. Add sugar gradually to stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Add flavoring. Spread over top of pie and cook until golden brown in a slow oven.

"MAN MAY WORK from sun to sun, but woman's work is never done." Women continually overdo and drift along from bad to worse. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a standard medicine for women's troubles.

"WE HAVE TO DO OUR OWN WORK"

"I saw in the newspapers where Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was doing so much good to women, and as I needed something I began to take it. I used to be very sick, but I am not now. I live on a farm in the homestead district and we have to do all our own work. I tell all the women I see what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound does for me. I think it saves me from going to a doctor and is the best medicine women can take."

MRS. WILLIAM COULTAS, Fork River, Manitoba.

PIE CRUST [Ill.u.s.tration]

Ingredients 1-1/2 cups flour 3 tablespoons lard 1/2 teaspoon salt cold water 3 tablespoons b.u.t.ter

Method--Wash b.u.t.ter and squeeze until water and salt has been removed.

Chill the lard then chop it into the flour, with two knives. Add salt and moisten it to a dough with cold water. (Ice water is not essential but is desirable in summer.) Toss on a floured board and roll out. Fold to make three layers and put the b.u.t.ter between the layers. Turn half way round, pat, and roll out. Cut off the sides of it and roll into shape for the plate. Roll the center for the upper crust, cutting slits in it to let out steam. Fold the upper crust under the edge of the lower crust. Bake in a moderately hot oven 40-50 minutes. Pastry may be used immediately or chilled before using. It must not come in contact with the ice.

IF THERE IS ONE THING more than another that a woman should care about it is her health. She may be cheated in her happiest hopes because she does not know that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound can be safely taken by all women.

"MY BACK SEEMED THE WORST"

"I was so weak that I could hardly do anything and my back seemed the worst. I read so much about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for women that I thought I would try it. I feel that it did help me. I am looking after my own home now and seem quite strong again. I have recommended your Vegetable Compound to quite a few friends and you can use my name if you wish to do so."

MRS. H. PORTER, Box 440, Meaford, Ontario.

APPLE PIE [Ill.u.s.tration]

Ingredients 4 or 5 sour apples 1/3 cup sugar 1/4 tablespoon grated nutmeg 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon lemon juice few gratings lemon rind 1 tablespoon b.u.t.ter

Method--Line pie-plate with pastry. Pare, core, and cut apples into eighths. Put row of slices around the plate 1/2 inch from the edge working towards the center until the plate is covered. Then pile on the remainder. Mix sugar, nutmeg, salt, lemon juice and grated rind and sprinkle over the apple. Dot all with b.u.t.ter. Wet the edges of the under crust, cover with the upper crust and press together. Bake for 40-45 minutes in a moderate oven.

DO YOU FEEL broken-down, nervous and weak sometimes? Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is excellent to take at such a time. It always helps and if taken regularly and persistently will relieve this condition.

"AS IF I MUST SCREAM"

"I cannot speak too highly of what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me. I was a nervous wreck and I just had to force myself to do my work. Even the sound of my own children playing made be feel as if I must scream if they did not get away from me. I could not even speak right to my husband. The doctor said that he could do nothing for me owing to my condition. My husband's grandmother advised me to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I started it right away and everyone noticed what a different woman I was in a short time. I was able to do my work once more, and it was a pleasure, not a burden."

MRS. EMILY DAVIS, 721 McGee St., Winnipeg, Manitoba.

BAKED FRUIT PUDDING [Ill.u.s.tration]

Prepare fruit--apples, peaches,--and sprinkle with sugar, also with cinnamon or nutmeg if apples are used. Place fruit in baking-dish to within one inch of the top.

CRUST

Ingredients 1 cup flour 1 salt spoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder 2 tablespoons b.u.t.ter 1/3 cup milk

Method--Mix and sift the dry ingredients, cut in b.u.t.ter with knife and add milk. Roll the crust to fit the baking-dish, keeping it 1/2 inch thick and place over the fruit. Press edges of the crust to the rim of the dish and make a small opening in the crust near the center. Bake in a moderate oven 30 minutes. Serve with vanilla sauce.

THE RIGHT ROAD to Health is what every ailing woman is looking for and when one woman gets on that road she is always ready to direct some other woman to it.

"IT HAD HELPED MY SISTER"

"I was a sufferer for three years, not able to do my housework. My husband was discouraged for I was no better and had the doctor all this time and nothing had helped me. I was always sleepy, had no appet.i.te and suffered with my left side. My mother, in England, recommended Lydia E.

Pinkham's Vegetable Compound because it had helped my sister, so I have been taking it. I am now able to do my housework and I cannot praise your Vegetable Compound too highly, as I have great hopes for the future. I will tell anyone who writes to me what good it has done me."

MRS. HENRY Ma.s.sON, St. Henry P.O., Montreal.

VANILLA SAUCE [Ill.u.s.tration]

Ingredients 1 cup boiling water 2 teaspoons corn-starch 1 tablespoon b.u.t.ter 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla little salt

Method--Mix the corn-starch with a little cold water and stir into the hot water, boiling five minutes. Put b.u.t.ter, sugar, flavoring and salt into a bowl and pour the thoroughly cooked cornstarch over it, stirring until the sugar and the b.u.t.ter are dissolved.

LEMON JELLY Ingredients--2 oranges, 1 lemon, the rind of one orange grated fine, 1 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon gelatine, 2 cups boiling water.

Method--Mix the juices and the fruit gratings with the sugar. Soak 1 tablespoon gelatine in 1 cup of cold water until soft. Stir in 2 cups of boiling water and add the sugar and fruit juices. Stir until the gelatine is dissolved, then pour into a mold to harden.

"WOMEN'S TROUBLES AND WOMEN'S WORK"

"I was weak and had some troubles women often have and usually I was unfit to do my work. I saw your advertis.e.m.e.nt and decided to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I am very much pleased with the result and recommend your Vegetable Compound whenever I have a chance."

MRS. WANDLESS, 360 Church St., Fredericton, New Brunswick.

"I have taken Lydia E. Pinkham's medicines and they have done me a lot of good. Since then I have been able to do my housework, and I have a lot to do as we live on a farm. Seeing your advertis.e.m.e.nt in the papers was what made me think of writing to you."

MRS. WM. B. KEIVER, Upper New Horton, New Brunswick.

CHOCOLATE BREAD PUDDING [Ill.u.s.tration]

Ingredients 2 cups bread crumbs 4 cups of milk (or 2 of water and 2 of evaporated milk) 2 squares chocolate 2/3 cup sugar 1 salt spoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla

Method--Soak bread crumbs in milk until soft. Melt the chocolate over hot water and add the sugar to it. Beat eggs well and add with the remaining ingredients to the crumbs and milk. Mix well and bake in a b.u.t.tered pudding-dish in a moderate oven, until thick and firm. A Meringue (see page 23) of egg white and sugar may be spread over the top about 15 minutes before it is done, or it can be served with cream, hard, or foamy sauce.

Hard Sauce--1/3 cup b.u.t.ter, 1 cup powdered sugar, 1/3 teaspoon lemon extract, 2/3 teaspoon vanilla. Cream the b.u.t.ter, add sugar gradually, and flavoring.

LACK OF ENERGY or 'pep' makes a woman feel old while she is yet young in years and general appearance.