POOR MAN'S CAKE. Beat thoroughly one-half cup of lard, one cup of sugar and one teaspoonful of vanilla, then add one cup of water, one and one-half teaspoonsful baking powder and two teaspoonsful corn starch, flour to make an average cake batter. Grease pan, dredge with flour, put in batter and sprinkle sugar over and bake. Sift flour, baking powder and corn starch all together. MRS. H. FOSTER. Burlingame, Kan.