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
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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