Before baking potatoes let them stand in hot water for fifteen minutes.  They will require only half the time to bake.

Pour boiling water on oranges and let them stand for five minutes.  This will make the white lining come away from the skin and they will be easier to prepare for a pudding.

Any hospital experience is painful as well as costly and frequently dangerous.  Many women have avoided this experience by taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound in time, thereby relieving the present distress and preventing the development of conditions that might require an operation.

“They said I needed an operation” “I suffered from the time I was a schoolgirl until I had taken your medicine with pain in my left side and with cramps, growing worse each year until I was all rundown.  I was so bad at times that I was unfit for work.  I tried several doctors and patent medicines but was only relieved for a short time.  Some of the doctors wanted to have an operation, but my father objected.  Finally I learned through my mother of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and how thankful I am that I tried it.  I am relieved from pains and cramps and feel as if it has saved my life.  You may use my letter to help other women, as I am glad to recommend the medicine.”  Mrs. H.A.  Goodman, 14 Rockvale Ave., Toronto, Ontario.

Hints and helps
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The common nut-cracker makes a splendid little household wrench for cans and bottles with screw tops.  Even glass stoppers will yield to it.

A pair of scissors in the pantry to cut up raisins, suet, citron, etc., is easier to use then the chopper.  A metal shoe-horn that has a hole in the top to hang it up by, makes a good kettle scraper.

Use a bicycle pump to clean such parts of the sewing machine as you cannot reach with a cloth or with an old tooth brush.

Save the sand-paper which comes on the match-boxes and use it for scraping, cleaning, etc.

Ammonia water will remove the cloudy appearance from the preserve jars in which vegetables have been canned.

The best advertised medicine in the world is the medicine which has the most friends.

“It has done so much for women” “I took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for years, and it is the only patent medicine I ever recommend.  I am a nurse, and if I find a woman is in poor health I always tell her to take it.  Although you know doctors and nurses do not use patent medicines I must say that I think there is nothing better than your Vegetable Compound.  When I first took it many years ago, I was that tired when I got up in the morning that I was weak and I could not eat nor sleep.  My mother-in-law told me that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound was just what I wanted, so I tried it, and only took two bottles when I felt better.  Since then I have found that there is nothing that makes me feel so well, for it seems to build my system right up.  I don’t know any other medicine that has done so much for women.”  Mrs. W.H.  Parker, 19 Wellesley Ave., Toronto, Ontario.