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diff --git a/16977.txt b/16977.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..19250d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/16977.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1795 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, Food and Health, by Anonymous + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Food and Health + + +Author: Anonymous + + + +Release Date: November 1, 2005 [eBook #16977] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FOOD AND HEALTH*** + + +E-text prepared by K. D. Thornton, Bruce Albrecht, and the Project +Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) + + + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original illustrations. + See 16977-h.htm or 16977-h.zip: + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/9/7/16977/16977-h/16977-h.htm) + or + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/9/7/16977/16977-h.zip) + + + + + +FOOD AND HEALTH + + + + + + + +DO WOMEN READ +our little books which come so regularly to their homes? Indeed they do, +and if only one is left at a two-family house we are asked to send +another at once. We feel sure that they are read from cover to cover. + + + * * * * * + + +LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S MEDICINES + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound +The original Pinkham medicine and best known of all. +It has been on the market for nearly fifty years and is put up in the +following forms: + +Liquid. +Dose--One tablespoonful every four hours through the day. +Dry (Tablets). +Dose--One tablet every four hours through the day. + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash. FOR LEUCORRHOEA AND INFLAMMATION +Liquid, a concentrated extract, ready to dilute and use at once, the +most convenient form. Use daily as a vaginal injection. Add one +teaspoonful (in severe cases two teaspoonfuls) of the Sanative Wash to +one pint of warm water, mix thoroughly and it is ready for use. (Can be +had, if preferred, in dry form, to steep.) + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Medicine. FOR POOR BLOOD +We recommend this as a good blood medicine for either men or women. +Dose--One tablespoonful three times a day, half an hour before eating. + +Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills. FOR CONSTIPATION +Dose--Take three the first night, two the second, and one the third; and +unless there is a regular and healthy movement of the bowels continue +taking one every night. + +FOR SALE BY DRUGGISTS GENERALLY + +Send for LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S PRIVATE TEXT BOOK UPON AILMENTS PECULIAR TO +WOMEN, mailed free on application to THE LYDIA E. PINKHAM MEDICINE CO. +Lynn, Mass., +Public Inspection of our Laboratories Cordially Invited. + + +HINTS FOR MEALTIME +How often do we hear women exclaim, "Oh dear, what shall I have for the +next meal?" + +This little book will aid you in answering that troublesome question. +The recipes are carefully selected and we hope you will find them +helpful. + +More important to you than the question of food is that of health. +Therefore, in this book we show you many letters from women who have +received great benefit by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. +You have heard of this splendid medicine, for it has been used by women +for nearly fifty years. It is a Woman's Medicine for Women's Ailments. +It is prepared from medicinal plants that are especially adapted for the +treatment of the troubles women so often have. + +As you read these letters remember these women are stating for the +benefit of other women who are sick just how they felt and just how the +Vegetable Compound restored them to health. + +You know it is bad enough to worry over the various duties of life when +you are well and strong. It is a serious matter when you are half sick +and all tired out most of the time. + +So in the following pages you will find suggestions for the next meal +that may help you, but more important by far are the letters +recommending Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the splendid +medicine for the ailments of women. + +You will read letters from many classes of women, young and old, mother +and daughter. They are genuine expressions of gratitude from one woman +to another. + +Thousands of women by word of mouth and by letter highly praise Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. + +"Of all the world's wealth +The best treasure is health, +For without it there's nothing worth while." + + +BAKING OF BREAD AND ROLLS +[Illustration] + +The pans should be well oiled and the loaves should never more than half +fill them. + +Bread should be put into a hot oven and loaves should rise during the +first fifteen minutes. It should continue browning for the next twenty +minutes then reduce the heat somewhat. Small loaves require 45 minutes, +large ones 1 hour. + +Biscuits and rolls require a hotter oven than bread. They should rise +for the first five minutes and then should begin to brown. After 15 +minutes reduce the heat and at 30 minutes the biscuits should be golden +brown and thoroughly baked inside. Remove bread from the pans as soon as +it comes from the oven. Keep covered with a clean cloth until cool then +place in a stone jar or tin box. + +WHAT DOES YOUR DRUGGIST SAY +when you ask him if he can recommend any good medicine to you because +you are nervous and run-down and not able to get your work done? He +suggests that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a well-known and +well-made medicine and that he knows many women who take it and +recommend it. + +"COULD NOT WORK HALF THE TIME" +"For many years I have had troubles with my nerves and have been in a +general run down condition for some time. I could not do my work half +the time because of troubles every month. I was told of Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound by friends and advised to try it. It has +done me good and I strongly recommend it. Since I have taken it I have +been able to do all my own work, and I also know friends who have found +it good. You can use these facts as a testimonial." +MRS. ELLEN FLATTERS, +Box 761, Cobourg, Ontario. + + +WHITE BREAD +[Illustration] + +Ingredients +1 tablespoon lard +1 tablespoon butter +1-1/2 teaspoons salt +1 tablespoon sugar +1 cup scalded milk +1 cup boiling water +1 yeast cake in 1/4 cup lukewarm water +6 cups sifted flour + +Method--Put lard, butter, salt and sugar into large bowl. Pour over them +the scalded milk and boiling water. When this is lukewarm add the yeast +cake dissolved in luke-warm water. Sift in flour gradually, beating with +a spoon. Toss on a floured board and knead until smooth. Allow it to +rise over night in a moderately warm place or until it doubles its +original size. Cut down or knead and allow it to rise until light, then +form into loaves or biscuits. Allow these to rise until light, then +bake. The amount of yeast used will depend on the length of time the +bread is allowed to rise. + +WHAT DO GIRLS DO +who don't have mothers to advise them about their health? + +"SHE WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND SCHOOL" +"Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was recommended to me for my +daughter. She had trouble every month which left her in a weak and +nervous condition, with weak back and pain in her right side. She had +these troubles for three years and frequently was unable to attend +school. She has become regular and feels much better since she began +taking the Vegetable Compound and attends school regularly. She is +gaining steadily and I have no hesitancy in recommending Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Medicine." +MRS. JOHN TOMS, +Ball St., Cobourg, Ontario. + + +CORN CAKE +[Illustration] + +Ingredients +2 cups Indian Meal +1 cup flour +1/2 cup sugar +1 teaspoon salt +1 egg +1 teaspoon soda +2 cups sour milk + +Method--Sift the dry ingredients together except the soda. Add egg +slightly beaten. Dissolve the soda in sour milk, stir into the dry +ingredients quickly and pour into a greased pan. Bake for half an hour +in a moderate oven. + +EVERY TRUE MOTHER +realizes the fact that her baby's health depends upon her own, that the +very vitality of her child is influenced by her own physical condition. +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has brought health and strength to +thousands of others. + +"I COULD NOT DO A SINGLE BIT OF WORK" +"I was troubled with weak feelings, headache all the time, a cough, +fainting spells and pains in my back and side. I could not do a single +bit of work and had to be helped out to the hammock where I lay in the +fresh air from morning until night and I had to be carried up and down +stairs. After other medicines had failed a friend advised me to take +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as she said it was excellent for +any one in the family way. Before the first bottle was taken I could +walk alone and as I kept on with it I got stronger until I was able to +do all of my work. My baby is now six weeks old and is a big fat healthy +fellow. I am sure Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done wonders +for me and I recommend it to any woman in that condition." +MRS. MURRAY J. BARTON, R.R. No. 1, +Cumberland Bay, New Brunswick. + + +TEA BISCUIT +[Illustration] + +Ingredients +2 cups bread flour +4 teaspoons baking powder +1/2 teaspoon salt +1 to 2 tablespoons shortening +3/4 cup milk + +Method--Sift the dry ingredients together, mix in fat with the tips of +fingers, then add the milk a little at a time or cut it in with a knife. +The dough should be as soft as can be easily handled. Roll lightly until +one inch thick, cut in rounds and bake in a hot oven for 15 or 20 +minutes. + +AN EVIDENCE OF CONFIDENCE +in a friend is to follow her advice, especially if it is not hearsay +evidence but something which she has tried out on herself and proved. +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound merits such confidence. Women all +over Canada as well as in the United States take our medicine and tell +its worth. + +"SAVED ME FROM AN OPERATION" +"I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at the change of life for +troubles women often have. I had not been well for a year and was not +really able to do my work. A friend who had taken the Vegetable Compound +herself recommended it to me and I think its use saved me from an +operation. I highly recommend to all women with troubles like mine." +MRS. DANIEL J. TRACEY, +Knightington, Ontario. + +"A FRIEND RECOMMENDED IT" +"A friend in Rose Valley recommended Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable +Compound to me, and it has been a great help to me. I recommend it, and +you can use this letter as a testimonial if you wish." +MRS. PETER NORDIN, +Wadena, Saskatchewan. + + +OMELET +[Illustration] + +Ingredients +1 egg +1 tablespoon hot water +1 salt spoon salt +Few grains of pepper + +Method--Separate the white from the yoke of the egg and beat it until +stiff. Beat the yolk until thick and add the hot water and salt. Fold +the beaten white of the egg in and put into a buttered pan. Cook slowly +until puffed and brown. + +SCRAMBLED EGGS + +Ingredients +1 egg +1 tablespoon milk or water +1/2 salt spoon salt +Few grains of pepper + +Method--Beat the eggs slightly and add liquid and seasonings. Pour into +a warm buttered pan and cook slowly over water. As the egg coagulates on +the bottom and sides of the pan lift it with a spoon. Continue until +thickened and creamy but not dry. Serve immediately. + +ONLY A FEW BOTTLES +of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound are needed to give surprising +results, as so many women tell us. + +"HAD NO AMBITION" +"I suffered greatly from weakness, seemed to be tired all the time, and +had no ambition to do anything or go any place. My nerves were in bad +shape, I could not sleep at night and then came a breakdown. I read of +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in the newspapers and several of +my friends advised me to use it. It surely put new life into me and now +I am quite able to do all my own work." +MRS. CHAS. WAKELIN, +272 Christie St., Toronto, Ontario. + + +SWEET MILK GRIDDLE CAKES +[Illustration] + +Ingredients +3 cups flour +2 tablespoons sugar +1/2 teaspoon salt +4 tablespoons baking powder +1 egg +2 cups milk +2 tablespoons melted fat + +Method--Mix and sift dry ingredients. Add beaten egg, milk and fat to +make a thin batter. Drop on a hot oiled griddle and brown on both sides. + +SAVINGS +Save all the waxed paper that crackers and bread come wrapped in. It is +very handy to roll out pie-crust or biscuits on, also doughnuts and +cookies, and saves washing the pastry board. + +IF YOU HAVE TO WORK +you must have good health in order to do your work well. Besides this, +you want to be able to play afterwards and both work and play require +good health. It is a great handicap to be lacking in energy when you are +young and should be strong. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will +help that tired feeling which many girls have. + +"I HAD TO STAY IN BED" +"I suffered for three years with troubles women often have. About every +three weeks I had to stay in bed four or five days. I nearly went crazy +with pains in my back, and for about a week at a time I could not do my +work. I saw Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound advertised in the +'Hamilton Spectator' and I took it. Now I have no pain and am quite +regular unless I overwork or stay on my feet from early morning until +late at night. I keep house and do all my own work without any trouble. +I have recommended the Vegetable Compound to several friends." +MRS. EMILY BEECROFT, +16 Douglas St., Hamilton, Ontario. + + +VINEGAR +[Illustration] + +A spoonful of vinegar added to the water when cooking corned beef will +make it more tender. + +To make pie-crust flaky try adding one-half a spoonful of vinegar to the +cold water before mixing. + +Add vinegar to the water in which you soak wilted vegetables and they +will revive quickly and any little bugs in them will come out. + +Add vinegar to the water when washing windows or paint or cleaning +floors. + +If paint or varnish is on a window, wet it with hot vinegar and rub it +off with a cent. + +To take the shine from clothing, sponge the shiny places with boiling +hot vinegar, rubbing vigorously, then press as usual. + +IT IS PERFECTLY SAFE +for any one to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound whenever such +a medicine is needed. It contains no narcotics nor harmful drugs and is +made in the most accurate and sanitary manner. Can a medicine be a fraud +that is compounded from nature's own remedies, the roots and herbs of +the fields, that has stood the test of time by restoring health and +happiness to thousands of suffering women? + +"FOR WOMEN'S TROUBLES" +"I saw Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound advertised for women's +troubles, and when a friend recommended it to me I tried it, and it has +done me so much good in the two years in which I have been taking it +that I find I am a different woman since then. I recommend your +Vegetable Compound as much as I can and you may use my letter as a +testimonial." +MRS. WM. J. THOMAS, +Melaval, Saskatchewan. + + +CASSEROLE OF RICE AND MEAT +[Illustration] + +Ingredients +2 cups steamed rice +2 cups chopped seasoned meat +1 cup gravy or tomato sauce +1/2 cup buttered crumbs + +Method--Place in a baking dish a layer of rice, over this sprinkle a +layer of chopped meat and repeat until the dish is nearly filled; then +pour gravy or tomato sauce over the meat. Cover with the buttered crumbs +and bake until brown. + +HELPFUL HINTS +To keep the daily paper from blowing away when it is left on the porch, +get the carrier to snap it into a spring clothes-pin which is tied to +the railing. + +WHEN A WOMAN KNOWS +that a certain medicine is good she wants no substitute or makeshift. +The women who take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound are of this +class. They know what they want and they will take nothing else. + +"COULD NOT SLEEP" +"I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for weakness of the female +organs. I had pains in the back and bearing-down pains in the abdomen +and was in a general run-down condition. I could not sleep, rest or +work, and was quite unfit to do even light household tasks. A friend +told me about your Vegetable Compound and I in my turn truly recommend +it, as my severe symptoms vanished and I am better in every way. I do my +own work, look after my children and see to chickens, a cow, and my +garden. I also recommend it for young girls who are weak and rundown, as +my 16-year-old daughter has taken it and is quite her own gay self +again." +MRS. FRED. WILEY, +Viscount, Saskatchewan. + + +FILIPINO ROLL +[Illustration] + +Ingredients +1 sweet green pepper +2 onions +1 lb. Hamburg steak +1 cup bread crumbs +1 egg +2 teaspoons salt +1 tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce +5 or 6 slices of bacon + +Sauce +1 cup tomato soup +1 tablespoon flour +1 teaspoon sugar +1/2 cup water + +Method--Wash the pepper and remove the seeds, add onions and chop +together. Mix with meat, breadcrumbs and well beaten egg. Add seasonings +and form into a roll. Cover with bacon and bake 45 minutes in a +moderately hot oven. Remove to platter, add water to make gravy and +strain into it the thickened tomato soup. Let it boil a few minutes then +pour around the roll. + +A FEW MINUTES +of any woman's time is well spent if she will read what Lydia E. +Pinkham's Vegetable Compound does for sick and ailing women. + +"ONE OF YOUR LITTLE BOOKS" +"I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for weakness and female +disorders. I was so weak at times that I could not stand up. I had been +this way for nearly three years, and the different medicines I had taken +had not done me any good. I found one of your little books at my door +one day and thought I would give your medicine a trial. I am now on my +fifth bottle and it is wonderful the way it has helped me. I am feeling +much better, have no weak spells, and can do all my work now. I am +recommending your Vegetable Compound to all I know." +MRS. CASEY LEMERY, +176 Abbott St., Brockville, Ontario. + + +MOCK MEAT CAKES +[Illustration] + +Ingredients +1/2 cup dried peas or beans +5 medium potatoes +1/2 cup grated cheese +1/2 cup fine breadcrumbs +1 egg (beaten) +1 tablespoon melted bacon fat +salt and pepper + +Method--Soak peas or beans over night, then boil until very tender. Boil +and mash potatoes. Add mashed beans, grated cheese, bread-crumbs, beaten +egg, bacon fat and seasonings. When cool shape into cakes, dip into +cornmeal and fry. + +WHY ARE SOME WOMEN +happy, beloved, and successful, while others drag out a negative +existence, of no use to themselves or anyone else? Except in a few cases +the answer is to be found in a state of freedom from the troubles known +as "female." The well woman radiates cheerfulness and serenity, while +the ailing one repels you with her despondency. It is not necessary, +however, to harbor aches and pains, and the "blues," which make one a +detriment to society. The use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound +has brought relief to such women, and given them a new lease of life. + +"A GENERAL RUN-DOWN CONDITION" +"I was in a general run-down condition, with a weak back and tired +feeling, so that I did not feel like working. My mother was taking Lydia +E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and recommended it to me, so I have +taken it, and my back is better and I am now able to do my work. I +recommend the Vegetable Compound to my neighbors and you may publish +this letter." +MRS. JOSEPHAT A. GRENIER, +Hesketh, Alberta. + + +DRY BEAN CHOWDER +[Illustration] + +Ingredients +1 cup dried beans +2 slices bacon (diced) +1 can corn +1 can tomatoes +salt and pepper +cracker crumbs + +Method--Soak the beans over night and boil until tender. Drain into a +fire-proof casserole. Try out the fat from the bacon until it is +perfectly crisp, care being taken that it is not burned. Then add corn, +seasoning and tomatoes. Mix all and add to beans. Sprinkle cracker +crumbs over the top and bake twenty-five minutes. Serve from the +casserole. + +IN THIS GENERATION +it is 'the style' to be healthy. Our heroines no longer languish and +faint. They are all healthy girls and women who do a day's work or play +just as a man does. If some of us are not so healthy as this, we try to +be and take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound when we feel the need. + +"I WAS A TOTAL WRECK" +"Before using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I was a total wreck. +I had terrible pains in my sides and was not regular. Finally I got so +weak I could not go upstairs without stopping to rest halfway up. I saw +your medicine advertised in the newspapers and gave it a trial. I took +four bottles of the Vegetable Compound and was restored to health. I am +married, am the mother of two children, and do all my own housework, +milk eight cows and do a hired man's work and enjoy the best of health. +I also found the Vegetable Compound a great help for my weak back before +my babies were born. I recommend it to all my friends." +MRS. HENRY JANKE, +Marmion, Ontario. + + +COOKING HINTS +[Illustration] + +Never throw away the feet of a fowl as they are excellent for making +soups, broths and jellies. You can buy extra feet from the butcher. Dip +them in boiling water for a few seconds and they may be readily skinned. +Boil with the chicken until they fall to pieces, then strain the broth. + +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 +[Illustration] + +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. + + +DUTCH CHEESE +[Illustration] + +Ingredients +1 quart sour milk +1/3 to 1 teaspoon salt +1/4 cup sour or sweet cream +(or 1 large tablespoon butter) + +Method--The milk should be freshly sour to get the best flavor. This is +best obtained by adding a little sour milk to five or six times the +amount of sweet milk. It should be kept in a warm place (the back of the +stove) until the curd of the milk is thick and smooth and the whey is +watery and has risen to the top. Drain in a cheese cloth bag until dry. +Add cream (or butter) and salt. If the process needs to be hurried stir +into the milk a cup full of nearly boiling water. Leave to settle before +draining. As the cheese is very rich in protein it easily becomes tough +by overheating. For the same reason it is very nourishing. + +THE CONTINUED SUCCESS +of a medicine depends entirely upon its merit. For nearly fifty years +Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been demonstrating its worth +among women as a valuable medicine for the treatment of female ills, and +the tremendous volume of letters on file in the Pinkham laboratory at +Lynn, Massachusetts, from grateful women in all parts of the United +States and Canada is ample proof of its merit. + +"A LOT OF GOOD" +"I had female troubles for two years. I always had a headache and a pain +in my side, and sometimes I felt so weak that I could not do my work. A +friend advised me to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and I +have taken six bottles of it. It has done me a lot of good and I am +still taking it. I will tell my friends of your medicine and hope they +will try it." +MRS. CAMILLE DesROCHE, +Miscouche, Prince Edward's Island. + + +CAKE-MAKING +Success in cake-making depends on careful combining of ingredients, +accurate measurements and careful baking. To make cake light and close +in texture, thorough beating is necessary. + +Baking--Small and layer cakes require a hot oven for 10 to 20 minutes. + +Loaf cakes need a moderate oven from 40 to 60 minutes. In the beginning +the oven should be hot enough to cause the cake to rise and then to form +a crust which holds the gases. When the cake has risen to its full +height decrease the heat so that the cake may finish baking without +becoming too brown. If the oven is too hot at first a crust will be +formed before the cake is risen. If not hot enough, gas will not be +retained in the cake. Either of these conditions will make the cake +heavy. + +Testing--The cake is baked if, when pressed lightly upon the top in the +middle, it springs back again. It usually shrinks from the sides of the +pan. A deep cake may be tested with a clean straw. + +Methods of work--First grease and flour the pans. Collect all materials +and utensils needed and make sure that the oven will be ready. Do this +before combining any materials. + +WE READ +a good deal about "Pre-Natal Care"--the care of the mother before her +child is born--and we all agree that a healthy and happy mother is the +one to have the best babies. + +"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 +[Illustration] + +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. + +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 +[Illustration] + +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 butter is too hard to serve, heat a bowl with boiling water and turn +the empty bowl over the butter. This will not waste or impair the taste +of the butter. + +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 +[Illustration] + +Ingredients +5 tablespoons butter +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 butter 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 +[Illustration] + +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 +[Illustration] + +Ingredients +3 tablespoons butter +1 cup confectioner's sugar +2 tablespoons cold boiled coffee +2 tablespoons cocoa +1/2 teaspoon vanilla + +Method--Cream the butter 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 advertisement 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 +[Illustration] + +Ingredients +3/4 cup sugar +3 tablespoons cornstarch +1 cup boiling water +3 tablespoons lemon juice +and grated rind +1 tablespoon butter +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 butter. 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 +[Illustration] + +Ingredients +1-1/2 cups flour +3 tablespoons lard +1/2 teaspoon salt +cold water +3 tablespoons butter + +Method--Wash butter 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 butter 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 +[Illustration] + +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 butter + +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 butter. 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 +[Illustration] + +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 butter +1/3 cup milk + +Method--Mix and sift the dry ingredients, cut in butter 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 appetite 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 MASSON, +St. Henry P.O., Montreal. + + +VANILLA SAUCE +[Illustration] + +Ingredients +1 cup boiling water +2 teaspoons corn-starch +1 tablespoon butter +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 butter, sugar, flavoring and salt +into a bowl and pour the thoroughly cooked cornstarch over it, stirring +until the sugar and the butter 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 advertisement 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 advertisement in the papers +was what made me think of writing to you." +MRS. WM. B. KEIVER, +Upper New Horton, New Brunswick. + + +CHOCOLATE BREAD PUDDING +[Illustration] + +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 +buttered 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 butter, 1 cup powdered sugar, 1/3 teaspoon lemon +extract, 2/3 teaspoon vanilla. Cream the butter, 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. + +"NO SERIOUS TROUBLE" +"I had no disease only I felt tired and had headache very often and +thought I needed a tonic, so I got Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound +and the Liver Pills. I am now on the third bottle and have not had +headache for over two weeks. Of course I have not had any serious +trouble at all." +MRS. M.A. WATSON, +Victoria St., Cobourg, Ontario. + +"I was weak and run down, had no appetite and was nervous. The nurse who +took care of me told me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, +and now I am getting strong. I recommend your medicine to my friends." +MRS. D. MAXWELL, +R.R. No. 2, Bothwell, Ontario. + + +CUP CUSTARDS +[Illustration] + +Ingredients +1 quart milk +4 eggs +4 tablespoons sugar +1/2 teaspoon salt +few grains nutmeg + +Method--Scald one quart of rich creamy milk. Beat four egg yolks, add +sugar and salt and beat until thick like cream. Beat the four egg whites +until foamy, not stiff, mix well with the yolks and sugar and add +scalded milk. Stand the cups in a shallow pan, stir the foam down, and +fill the cups to overflowing or nearly so. Put hot water in the pan and +bake in a hot oven, watching them carefully that they do not scorch. Lay +buttered paper over if needed. Test with a knife as soon as they begin +to puff up and if the blade comes out clean, not milky, they are done. + +DO WOMEN READ +our little books which come so regularly to their homes? We feel sure +that they are read from cover to cover. + +"I SEEMED TO BE SMOTHERING" +"I suffered with irregular periods, was weak and run-down, could not eat +and had headaches. The worst symptoms were dragging down pains, so bad I +sometimes thought I would go crazy and I seemed to be smothering. I was +in this condition for two or three years and could not seem to work. I +tried all kinds of remedies but received no benefit. I found one of your +booklets and felt inclined to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. +I received the best results from it and now I keep house and go out to +work and am like a new woman." +MRS. J.F. PEASEY, +387 King St. West, Toronto, Ontario. + + +SUBSTITUTES +[Illustration] + +Use jelly tumblers to bake custards in. + +Use soldier's long wristers to make gaiters for a baby; just sew an +elastic band at the bottom. + +Use cold cream jars to keep pepper, allspice, and other spices in, and +label with a sticker or a piece of surgeon's plaster. + +Instead of the usual dust cap, cut a three-cornered piece of +cheese-cloth, hemming the two sides without selvedge and tie around the +head with the point at the back of your neck. + +To avoid giving out fresh napkins at every meal, write each name on a +spring clothes-pin and pin to the napkin. You can name your face towel +in this way when camping out. + +When cleaning fish use scissors in place of a knife and if it is to be +scaled dip it first into boiling water. + +DO YOU KEEP ON TAKING +your medicine when you begin to improve, or do you stop taking it, +trusting that you are on the road to recovery and no more medicine is +needed, even if you have been sick for months and are having your first +hours of relief from pains and nervousness? + +"HAVE TAKEN IT FAITHFULLY" +"For five years I suffered with pains in my back and from other troubles +women often have. All of this time I was unfit for work and was taking +different medicines that I thought were good. I saw the advertisement in +the papers of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and have taken it +faithfully. I am now in good health and do all my own work. I recommend +it to others and give you permission to publish this letter in your +little books and in the newspapers as a testimonial." +MRS. D. CASSADY, +Box 461, Paris, Ontario. + + +HOUSE-CLEANING HINTS +[Illustration] + +To clean a painted wall wash it with saleratus water; about one +tablespoonful of saleratus to a quart of warm water. + +A piece of zinc placed on the glowing coals will clean the chimney of +soot. + +A little lye put in paste will make wall-paper stick. + +To drive a nail into plaster, heat it very hot and the plaster will not +break. + +To drive nails or screws into hard wood always rub them over with soap +and they will go in easily and will not split the wood. + +Shellac the inside of all drawers and they will be easy to clean. + +When you remove the waste from your carpet-sweeper, carefully cut the +lint and hair from the revolving rolls and brushes. Then with a cloth +dipped in kerosene rub the bristles and the inside of the box clean, and +the oil will prevent the dust from rising when you sweep. + +HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT +of writing to us about what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has +done for you? + +"I AM STRONGER AND FEEL FINE." +"I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound because I was tired and +run down. I had headaches and no appetite and was troubled for two years +with sleeplessness. I tried many medicines but nothing did me any real +good. While I was living in Washington I was recommended by a friend to +take the Vegetable Compound. I am stronger and feel fine since then and +am able to do my housework. I am willing for you to use these facts as a +testimonial." +MRS. J.C. GREAVES, +771 Hornby St., Vancouver, British Columbia. + + +FIRST AIDS +[Illustration] + +For a rusty nail accident pour turpentine at once on the afflicted +parts. + +For burns put on scraped raw potato instantly and change as often as it +gets warm, until the pain is relieved. + +Olive oil will remove gum from a child's hair as if by magic. + +When a child puts a bean in his nose, don't try to dig it out. Put a +little cayenne pepper upon his upper lip and he will sneeze it out. + +To extract splinters, fill a wide-mouthed bottle almost to the top with +very hot water and place the injured part over the mouth of the bottle +and press lightly. Suction will draw the flesh down and steam will +extract the splinter. + +TABLE OF MEASURES +(dry and liquid) + +4 salt spoons 1 teaspoonful +3 teaspoonfuls 1 tablespoonful +16 tablespoonfuls 1 cup +2 cups 1 pint + +All measures are level. To measure dry materials, take up all a spoon or +cup will hold and level it with a knife. + +To measure liquids, take up all the spoon or cup will hold. + +"AFTER BEING MARRIED SIXTEEN YEARS" +"Seven years ago I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and after +being married sixteen years became the mother of a sweet little girl. I +had longed for children all the while and wept many a day and envied +every woman with a child. I was thirty-six years old when my baby was +born. I recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to any woman who +is ailing with female weakness." +MRS. J. NAUMANN, +1517 Benton St., St. Louis, Mo. + + +ATTENTION! +AN ATTRACTIVE PRESENT + +Will be forwarded you free if you will return this page with answers to +the following questions: + +Designate your choice by checking one of the following: + +TAPE MEASURE +MANICURE SET + +LYDIA E. PINKHAM MEDICINE CO. +LYNN, MASS. + + * * * * * + +QUESTIONS + +How many copies of this book were left for you where you found this one? + +Where did you find this copy? + +Have you seen other copies of this book in stores or otherwise wasted? + +If so, please explain what you have seen? + +Would you like us to send you, with the present, a free copy of LYDIA E. +PINKHAM'S PRIVATE TEXT-BOOK UPON AILMENTS PECULIAR TO WOMEN? + +Name + +Street Address + +Town + + + * * * * * * + + +Transcriber's notes: + + Inside front cover: added period after Pinkham's Blood Medicine. + Page 2. added " after: facts as a testimonial. + Page 5. Reversed order of MRS. PETER NORDIN, <--> Wadena, + Saskatchewan. + Page 6. until [added space] puffed + Page 11. changed to title case from upper, for consistency: Method + page 14. 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