“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 [Illustration]

Ingredients 2 eggs 1 cup sugar 3 teaspoons Oleo or butter 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, butter, 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
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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 buttered pan 2 inches apart.  Bake in a moderately hot oven.  Always use a tin pan.