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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
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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
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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
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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.