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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
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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
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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
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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